“ Love has something to do with recognition, We can be fascinated by the unknown, we can be attracted by it, but love is something that grows, slowly, in an atmosphere of trust. 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 own personality or figure out diesel engines. Peter Høeg
“ We all try to camouflage the monotony, But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all the time. When we're so much like one another anyway. Our triumphs are the same. Our pain. Try for a… Peter Høeg
“ If you have to wait for a long time, you have to seize hold of the waiting or it will become destructive. If you let things slide, your consciousness will waver, awakening fear and restlessness, then… 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
“ A child who is born is something to seek out, something to search for, a star, a northern light, a column of energy in the universe. And a child who dies-that's an abomination. Peter Høeg
“ He has a light, fumbling brutality, which several times makes me think that this time it’ll cost me my sanity. In our dawning, mutual intimacy, I induce him to open the little slit in the head of his… Peter Høeg
“ We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror. Peter Høeg
“ Back then I could not understand one word of what I read.Reading did, however, give me heart. Even if you cannot understand what you are reading you can get something from books. Peter Høeg
“ Under certain circumstances the fateful decisions in life, sometimes even in matters of life and death, are made with an almost indifferent ease. While the little things-for instance, the way people h… Peter Høeg
“ Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, the piercing knowledge that we ourselves will somed… 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
“ There is a pleasant firmness of tone when one is in harmony with oneself. Even when it's a weak ethic one is resonating with. 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 us is alone. Peter Høeg
“ Cantor illustrated the concept of infinity for his students by telling them that there was once a man who had a hotel with an infinite number of rooms, and the hotel was fully occupied. Then one more… Peter Høeg
“ I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages. Peter Høeg
“ Basker possesses three kinds of bite: a snap, a nip, and then something like a buzz saw and an angle grinder mounted on a bear trap. Peter Høeg
“ No person can open another person, All we can do is wait. And then work with the openness when it occur.s. Peter Høeg
