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
“... "if you restrict earthly things, you set up your thoughts free for the spiritual.” — Peter Høeg Earthly things 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 Faith Copy Share Image
Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of 45 percent fear of not being accepted, 45 percent manic… — Peter Høeg Accepted 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 Time Copy Share Image
“I'll come, you'll see,' I said. I knew it was a lie, she knew it, too.” — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
..That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary. — Peter Høeg Failure 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
“We who are profoundly joined in soul can only but heal the ruptures of the cosmos.” — Peter Høeg Astronomy 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 Bad thing Copy Share Image
“No one who has lived side by side with animals that have plenty of room can ever visit the zoo.” — Peter Høeg Side by side 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 in love 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 Love 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Deep within every blind, absolute love grows a hatred toward the beloved, who now holds the only existing key to happiness” — Peter Høeg Absolute love Copy Share Image
“She looked at him. As if she wanted to determine his molecular weight.” — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“I've always enjoyed cleaning. Even though they tried to teach us laziness in school.” — 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 Children 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
“Basker possesses three kinds of bite: a snap, a nip, and then something like a buzz saw and an angle grinder mounted… — Peter Høeg Humorous 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 Children 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
