“When you are in the company of people who look down upon themselves as though they were animals, you too become like… — Peter Høeg Animals 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
“That was the way of the rule. They had so many to keep an eye on. As long as you kept a… — Peter Høeg Time 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 Science 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 Beats 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 Happiness 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
“The cookies combine butter and spices in such a way that you could eat a hundred of them and only realize how… — Peter Høeg Too late 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
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
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
She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created. — Peter Høeg Sound 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 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 Different 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
To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost. — Peter Høeg Learning 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
“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
“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 people are going to be taken from you anyway, then it would be better if you had never come to care… — Peter Høeg 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 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 problem with anger against God is that it's impossible to go higher in the system to complain. — Peter Høeg Anger Copy Share Image
