"I have sat in the dark and looked……" — Peter Høeg
"I have sat in the dark and looked at them both, the child and the woman. And the feeling has become too much. It is not sorrow or joy; it is the weight and the pressure of having been brought into their lives, and of knowing that if one were ever to be separated from them, it would mean your obliteration."
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Peter Høeg
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34 Quotes by Peter Høeg
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