Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense Of Snow Quotes
We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.
On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.
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.
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.
To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.
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.
Deep within every blind, absolute love grows a hatred toward the beloved, who now holds the only existing key to happiness
Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.
