“I'll come, you'll see,' I said. I knew it was a lie, she knew it, too.” — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's true that love is eternal. But it's appearance changes all the time. — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“To touch time. That, I suppose, is what life for me has been about since then.” — Peter Høeg Life Copy Share Image
“... Because one who seeks the highest must not leave any path untried.” — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“Nature is not a straitjacket that must be burst open. Nature is a blessing, an opportunity for growth that has been bestowed… — Peter Høeg Living things Copy Share Image
“I've always enjoyed cleaning. Even though they tried to teach us laziness in school.” — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“Basker possesses three kinds of bite: a snap, a nip, and then something like a buzz saw and an angle grinder mounted… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“There's a plan the school… So many things happen, you're never given any explanation. We are going to study it scientifically, like… — Peter Høeg Education Copy Share Image
“No matter how close people get, they never reach each other. Including us now. Even now, there's a place where each of… — Peter Høeg Alone Copy Share Image
“Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is… — Peter Høeg Life Copy Share Image
It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground. — Peter Høeg Determination Copy Share Image
We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts… — Peter Høeg Dimensions Copy Share Image
The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality… — Peter Høeg Balance Copy Share Image
“That was the way of the rule. They had so many to keep an eye on. As long as you kept a… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“As far as I'm concerned, you could send all the cars in the world through a compactor and shoot them out through… — Peter Høeg Mars Copy Share Image
“With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations. I don't have the energy to start over again. To learn new skills or… — Peter Høeg Aging Copy Share Image
I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody ever wants… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of 45 percent fear of not being accepted, 45 percent manic… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“You spend your whole life believing that you will always be on the outside or on the borderline. You struggle and struggle,… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
He boils milk with fresh ginger, a quarter of a vanilla bean, and tea that is so dark and fine-leaved that it… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
Those who were on the inside, the majority that is, for them it had been hard to get his point, mostly they… — Peter Høeg Abandonment Copy Share Image
“For my part, I never talk to the child about time. We talk about other things -- though not about anything much… — Peter Høeg Children Copy Share Image
“Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of forty-five per cent fear of not being accepted and forty-five… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all… — Peter Høeg Child Copy Share Image
“So the [Binet-Simon]test results were always related to time. Thereby producing a new figure -- a measurement of intelligence. A calculated figure,and… — Peter Høeg Time Copy Share Image
When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a… — Peter Høeg Demand Copy Share Image
“You draw something...and you get nothing. The you do the same thing again, but this time you get a star and are… — Peter Høeg Artist Copy Share Image
“The regularity of the clock was a metaphor for the accuracy of the universe. For the accuracy of God's creative achievement. So… — Peter Høeg Art Copy Share Image
“She said she had been thinking about the way you remembered your past. What you remembered, she said, was a string of… — Peter Høeg Early childhood Copy Share Image
“There in bed, happiness comes over me. Not like something that belongs to me, but like a wheel of fire rolling through… — Peter Høeg Discipline Copy Share Image
The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape. — Peter Høeg Action Copy Share Image
“The cookies combine butter and spices in such a way that you could eat a hundred of them and only realize how… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“The bad thing about death is not that it changes the future. It's that it leaves us alone with our memories.” — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“No one who has lived side by side with animals that have plenty of room can ever visit the zoo.” — Peter Høeg Animals Copy Share Image
“There is a pleasant firmness of tone when one is in harmony with oneself. Even when it's a weak ethic one is… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“This was a rule I had discovered about her. Confessing to minor violations could lead to a reword of a sort.” — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are… — Peter Høeg Expression Copy Share Image
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