Quotes by Peter Høeg

Peter Høeg

..That’s where we humans make a mistake. We don’t see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary.

Humans

Mistake

Ordinary

Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one.

Different

Enjoy

People

Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? … The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

Expression

Missing

Numbers

Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of 45 percent fear of not being accepted, 45 percent manic hope that this time the fear will be put to shame and a modest 10 percent frail awareness of the possibility of love. I don’t fall in love any more. Just like I don’t get the mumps.

Awareness

Falling In Love

Shame

Grief is a gift, something you have to earn.

Grief

Spiritual Love

He boils milk with fresh ginger, a quarter of a vanilla bean, and tea that is so dark and fine-leaved that it looks like black dust. He strains it and puts cane sugar in both our cups. There’s something euphorically invigorating and yet filling about it. It tastes the way I imagine the Far East must taste.

Black

Dark

Dust

I don’t fall in love anymore. Just like I don’t get the mumps.

Broken Heart

Don't Fall In Love

Falling In Love

I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It’s the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.

Blessing

Loneliness

Single

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.

Children

Dark

Mean

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.

Boys

Class

Heart

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Accepted

Adventure

Appearance

Atmosphere

Awareness

Bad Day

Balance

Beautiful

Being Alone

Believe

Black

Blessing

Boys

Brain

Break Through

Bridges

Broken Heart

Car

Charity

Children

Class

Complaining

Dark

Decision

Depression

Differences

Different

Disease

Distance

Doe

Don't Fall In Love

Doors

Dust

Encounters

Enjoy

Epidemics

Eternal

Experts

Expression

Eye

Falling In Love

Fear

Girl

Glue

Grief

Heart

Humans

Ifs

Impossible

Indispensable

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Quotes by Peter Høeg

Peter Høeg

..That’s where we humans make a mistake. We don’t see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary.

Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one.

Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? … The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

Grief is a gift, something you have to earn.

I don’t fall in love anymore. Just like I don’t get the mumps.

I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It’s the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.

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.

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