“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
“She said she had been thinking about the way you remembered your past. What you remembered, she said, was a string of… — 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
“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 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 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
“Linear time has to be envisaged as a huge, endless knife blade scraping its way across the universe, and drawing it along… — 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
“When you assess something, you are forced to assume that a linear scale of values can be applied to it. Otherwise no… — Peter Høeg 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 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 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
“Now I will say it. What I, personally, believe about time. To sense time, to speak about time you have to sense… — Peter Høeg 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 Copy Share Image
“What was meant was that time is something you have to hold on to and the place where we examined it that… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“Even then one sensed that it must be a rule. That time could not be something that passed all by itself but… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“If you remember,” he said, “and have a past, then you can be given the blame and be punished. See – if… — 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 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
“For my part, I never talk to the child about time. We talk about other things -- though not about anything much… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
When you let your mind go blank,' he said, 'or when you stop talking for a long time, something happens. Time becomes… — Peter Høeg 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 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 Copy Share Image
“He has a light, fumbling brutality, which several times makes me think that this time it’ll cost me my sanity. In our… — Peter Høeg 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 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
