“On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.” — Peter Høeg Banal Copy Share Image
To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost. — Peter Høeg Learning Copy Share Image
It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly. — Peter Høeg Clearly Copy Share Image
“She looked at him. As if she wanted to determine his molecular weight.” — Peter Høeg Looked Copy Share Image
“I've always enjoyed cleaning. Even though they tried to teach us laziness in school.” — Peter Høeg Cleaning 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
Never do I close my door behind me without being conscious that I am carrying out an act of charity towards myself. — Peter Høeg Acts of charity Copy Share Image
“Maybe a person can be born to the wrong people,” he said. “Maybe a person should have been put somewhere else.” — Peter Høeg Somewhere else Copy Share Image
“The child had wanted attention. She had just asked to be noticed. But she was given an assessment. 'What a clever girl!” — Peter Høeg Children 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 Close Copy Share Image
When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning. — Peter Høeg Culmination Copy Share Image
“So it is not fundamentally possible to be alone. Fundamentally, man has to be with other people. If man becomes totally, totally… — Peter Høeg Fundamentally 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
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
“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
“That was the way of the rule. They had so many to keep an eye on. As long as you kept a… — Peter Høeg Kept Copy Share Image
“To Plato, God was a mathematician. To Kepler, too, and to Biehl and Fredhoj. I do not believe it was a coincidence… — Peter Høeg Kepler 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… — Peter Høeg Eye Copy Share Image
“So I was damaged. It said so, in so many words – that it was difficult, if not impossible, for me to… — Peter Høeg Damaged 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.… — Peter Høeg Meant Copy Share Image
“thinking about the way you remembered your past. What you remembered, she said, was a string of events and years stretching back… — Peter Høeg Long way Copy Share Image
Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in… — Peter Høeg Breakthrough Copy Share Image
The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the… — Peter Høeg Ability 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 Human nature 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 Cold Copy Share Image
When we say 'time', I believe we mean at least two things. We mean changes. And we mean something unchangeable. We mean… — Peter Høeg Animal Copy Share Image
“Time is a sphere made up of language, colours, smells, senses and sounds, a sphere in which you and the world coexist,… — Peter Høeg Clock Copy Share Image
“But even they it was as though the time that the clock measured was not put to any use. For by far… — Peter Høeg Clock Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is a kind of language. The only one in the universe that spurns the thought of limits. Under duress, psychology and… — Peter Høeg Heaven and earth Copy Share Image
“When you assess something, you are forced to assume that a linear scale of values can be applied to it. Otherwise no… — Peter Høeg Assess Copy Share Image
“People from the mainland, particularly those from the capital, have always wanted to get married on Finø. Perhaps it has to do… — Peter Høeg Magical realism Copy Share Image
“At Crusty House, in a four-hundred-metre race, it was always possible to determine who could run better than everyone else. And pretty… — Peter Høeg Football Copy Share Image
“Where's tomorrow?' That is what she has asked me. When children cry, you talk to them about tomorrow. If they hurt themselves… — Peter Høeg Children Copy Share Image
“Once you have realised that there is no objective external world to be found; that what you know is only a filtered… — Peter Høeg Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
“You have to have a place where you can gather your thoughts. Like people who pray. That is what is difficult here… — Peter Høeg Time passing 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
