Peter Høeg

Some thoughts have glue on them.----Smilla

— Peter Høeg

“Time is something you have to hold on to.”

— Peter Høeg

“One should be good to oneself. Especially when one is alone.”

— Peter Høeg

“There can be great depths of love that are not reciprocated.”

— Peter Høeg

“On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.”

— Peter Høeg

“She looked at him. As if she wanted to determine his molecular weight.”

— Peter Høeg

It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.

— Peter Høeg

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.

— Peter Høeg

“Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is…

— Peter Høeg

It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.

— Peter Høeg

The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape.

— Peter Høeg

We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts…

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“The cookies combine butter and spices in such a way that you could eat a hundred of them and only realize how…

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“Basker possesses three kinds of bite: a snap, a nip, and then something like a buzz saw and an angle grinder mounted…

— Peter Høeg

“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

“No matter how close people get, they never reach each other. Including us now. Even now, there's a place where each of…

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I have sat in the dark and looked at them both, the child and the woman. And the feeling has become too…

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I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody ever wants…

— Peter Høeg

Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of 45 percent fear of not being accepted, 45 percent manic…

— Peter Høeg

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

“You spend your whole life believing that you will always be on the outside or on the borderline. You struggle and struggle,…

— Peter Høeg

“Maybe I should give up and go back the way I came. But I stay. I detest fear. I hate being scared.…

— Peter Høeg

“To Plato, God was a mathematician. To Kepler, too, and to Biehl and Fredhoj. I do not believe it was a coincidence…

— Peter Høeg

“That was the way of the rule. They had so many to keep an eye on. As long as you kept a…

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“Since we met, ever since that first time when we each sat on a toilet, up against the radiator, ever since then…

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“The life of every person concerns something of significance. You may not be all that well fitted, but no matter. The significant…

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“But even they it was as though the time that the clock measured was not put to any use. For by far…

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“Time is a sphere made up of language, colours, smells, senses and sounds, a sphere in which you and the world coexist,…

— Peter Høeg

When we say 'time', I believe we mean at least two things. We mean changes. And we mean something unchangeable. We mean…

— Peter Høeg

“thinking about the way you remembered your past. What you remembered, she said, was a string of events and years stretching back…

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The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the…

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Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in…

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“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

“You have to have a place where you can gather your thoughts. Like people who pray. That is what is difficult here…

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“Once you have realised that there is no objective external world to be found; that what you know is only a filtered…

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“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

“People from the mainland, particularly those from the capital, have always wanted to get married on Finø. Perhaps it has to do…

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“When you assess something, you are forced to assume that a linear scale of values can be applied to it. Otherwise no…

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“Mathematics is a kind of language. The only one in the universe that spurns the thought of limits. Under duress, psychology and…

— Peter Høeg

“There in bed, happiness comes over me. Not like something that belongs to me, but like a wheel of fire rolling through…

— Peter Høeg