Perhaps it's true that love is eternal. But it's appearance changes all the time. — Peter Høeg Appearance Copy Share Image
“I'll come, you'll see,' I said. I knew it was a lie, she knew it, too.” — Peter Høeg Knew Copy Share Image
“... Because one who seeks the highest must not leave any path untried.” — Peter Høeg Highest Copy Share Image
“To touch time. That, I suppose, is what life for me has been about since then.” — Peter Høeg Life Copy Share Image
“Some girls are fortunate enough to be in love with deep and intelligent boys," she says. "And then there's the rest of… — Peter Høeg Girls 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
“The cookies combine butter and spices in such a way that you could eat a hundred of them and only realize how… — Peter Høeg Late Copy Share Image
We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts… — Peter Høeg Dimensions Copy Share Image
The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape. — Peter Høeg Action 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
“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
“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 Alone 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 Remember Copy Share Image
“programs in Grenå. And finally, in a different direction altogether, if you asked the residents of Big Hill, which is a rehab… — Peter Høeg Wine Copy Share Image
There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the… — Peter Høeg Culture Copy Share Image
“Det var ikke en rituell prognose, som et bryllupsløfte eller et nyttårsforsett. Det var en edsavleggelse av et slag Madelene ikke hadde… — Peter Høeg Gang Copy Share Image
I have sat in the dark and looked at them both, the child and the woman. And the feeling has become too… — Peter Høeg Children Copy Share Image
“Maybe I should give up and go back the way I came. But I stay. I detest fear. I hate being scared.… — Peter Høeg Fear 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 Believing Copy Share Image
He boils milk with fresh ginger, a quarter of a vanilla bean, and tea that is so dark and fine-leaved that it… — Peter Høeg Beans 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
“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
There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all… — Peter Høeg Child Copy Share Image
“Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of forty-five per cent fear of not being accepted and forty-five… — Peter Høeg Falling 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 Children Copy Share Image
Those who were on the inside, the majority that is, for them it had been hard to get his point, mostly they… — Peter Høeg Abandonment 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 Fifteen years 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 Life 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 Beginnings and endings 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 Discipline Copy Share Image
“There's a plan the school… So many things happen, you're never given any explanation. We are going to study it scientifically, like… — Peter Høeg Education Copy Share Image
“Basker possesses three kinds of bite: a snap, a nip, and then something like a buzz saw and an angle grinder mounted… — Peter Høeg Bear Copy Share Image
“... "if you restrict earthly things, you set up your thoughts free for the spiritual.” — Peter Høeg Earthly things 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
“When people are going to be taken from you anyway, then it would be better if you had never come to care… — Peter Høeg Taken 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 Confessing Copy Share Image
Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are… — Peter Høeg Expression Copy Share Image