Earthly things Quote by Peter Høeg

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

— Peter Høeg

“When you are in the company of people who look down upon themselves as though they were animals, you too become like an animal.…

— Peter Høeg

“With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations. I don't have the energy to start over again. To learn new skills or fight my…

— Peter Høeg

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

— Peter Høeg

“That was what we meant by science. That both question and answer are tied up with uncertainty, and that they are painful. But that…

— Peter Høeg

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

— Peter Høeg

“There's no simple aritmetic for life's distribution of happiness and sorrow, no such thing as a standard share.”

— Peter Høeg

“She said she had been thinking about the way you remembered your past. What you remembered, she said, was a string of events and…

— Peter Høeg

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

— 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

There's a look of mischief in his eyes. 'Smilla. Why is it that such an elegant and petite girl like you has such a…

— Peter Høeg

When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from…

— Peter Høeg