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
Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one. — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“The greatest performances where when fingertips took away a very thin veil between people and uncovered the universe in its entirety.” — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
We all try to camouflage the monotony. But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all the time.… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people,… — Peter Høeg 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 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
