“..." like many elderly people, she has developed a selective sense of hearing. She ignores me and continues on her own track...” — Peter Høeg 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
“There is a pleasant firmness of tone when one is in harmony with oneself. Even when it's a weak ethic one is… — Peter Høeg 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
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
“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
Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one. — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“... "if you restrict earthly things, you set up your thoughts free for the spiritual.” — Peter Høeg Earthly things Copy Share Image
“So I was damaged. It said so, in so many words – that it was difficult, if not impossible, for me to… — 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… — 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 Across the universe Copy Share Image
“A child who is born is something to seek out, something to search for, a star, a northern light, a column of… — Peter Høeg Child Copy Share Image
“Children woke up at six-thirty in the morning and shifted directly into fourth gear. Fourteen hours later they rushed straight into sleep… — Peter Høeg Children 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 Intimacy Copy Share Image
I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace… — Peter Høeg Awareness 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
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
“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
“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
“No one who has lived side by side with animals that have plenty of room can ever visit the zoo.” — Peter Høeg Animals Copy Share Image
“Wie so oft erhebt sich die Frage, weshalb Männer in ihrer Persönlichkeit oft diffus sind, wie es sein kann, daß sie an… — Peter Høeg Men Copy Share Image
“And yet, quite often, she comes to me. Seldom to have anything explained, but often to tell me something. When she comes… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
Love has something to do with recognition, We can be fascinated by the unknown, we can be attracted by it, but love… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people,… — Peter Høeg Foreign language Copy Share Image
I'm no expert on types of cars. As far as i'm concerned, you could send all the cars in the world through… — 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
“Even then one sensed that it must be a rule. That time could not be something that passed all by itself but… — Peter Høeg Time 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… — Peter Høeg Animal 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
“There are mornings when it feels as if you rise up to the surface through a mud bath. With your feet stuck… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
