“Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.”
“Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.”
“Nothing matter but the quality/ of the affection—/in the end—that has carved the trace in the mind dove sta memoria”
“One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.”
“Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.”
“Unlike lovers they possessed no past; unlike man and wife, they possessed no future; yet up to in this morning Nicole had liked Abe better than anyone except Dick--and he had been heavy, belly-frightened, with love for her for years.”