“There's no simple aritmetic for life's distribution of happiness and sorrow, no such thing as a standard share.” — Peter Høeg 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 Copy Share Image
“To touch time. That, I suppose, is what life for me has been about since then.” — Peter Høeg 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 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
“Since we met, ever since that first time when we each sat on a toilet, up against the radiator, ever since then… — Peter Høeg 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 Copy Share Image
“I don't know if you're in love with someone. If you're not, there's something I would like to say to you, and… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“I saw how pure, in a way, they were – no matter what they had done. Each in their own way they… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“The life of every person concerns something of significance. You may not be all that well fitted, but no matter. The significant… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“When you are in the company of people who look down upon themselves as though they were animals, you too become like an animal.… — Peter Høeg 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 fight my… — Peter Høeg 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 low profile,… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“That was what we meant by science. That both question and answer are tied up with uncertainty, and that they are painful. But that… — Peter Høeg 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 to dance… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“There's no simple aritmetic for life's distribution of happiness and sorrow, no such thing as a standard share.” — Peter Høeg 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 events and… — Peter Høeg 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 sick you… — Peter Høeg 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 Copy Share Image
There's a look of mischief in his eyes. 'Smilla. Why is it that such an elegant and petite girl like you has such a… — Peter Høeg 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 passage from… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
