"There's a widespread notion that children are open,……" — Peter Høeg
"There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all wrong. No one is more covert than a child, and no one has a greater need to be that way. It's a response to a world that's always using a can opener to open them up to see what's inside, wondering whether it ought to be replaced with a more useful sort of preserves."
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Peter Høeg
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34 Quotes by Peter Høeg
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