93 Quotes by Peter Høeg

The body’s pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.

I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody ever wants to dance with. My heart beats for them. Maybe because I’ve always known that in some way I will forever be one of them.

She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created.

We sat there and I knew that this was how it felt to be totally accepted. You sit close to another person and are understood, everything is understood and nothing is judged and you are indispensable.

The motive for our actions doesn’t lie ahead of us. It’s something behind us that we’re trying to escape.

The problem with anger against God is that it’s impossible to go higher in the system to complain.

Perhaps it’s true that love is eternal. But it’s appearance changes all the time.

People under thirty haven’t yet stopped believing that something wonderful can suddenly happen.

Some thoughts have glue on them. – -Smilla.