Some thoughts have glue on them.----Smilla
("Smilla's Sense of Snow")
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The cookies combine butter and spices in such a way that you could eat a hundred of them and only realize how sick you are after it's too late.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
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.
Peter Høeg
To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.
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On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.
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When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is the only thing you have left. You can demand something like this of yourself as an unattainable ideal. After that, you have to remind yourself about it every time you're sloppy about something. For me that means 250 times a day.
Peter Høeg
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