The Quiet Girl Quotes

“She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created.”
― Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl

“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, The Quiet Girl

“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, The Quiet Girl

“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 moment to feel what relief there is in the ordinary.”
― Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl

“She looked at him. As if she wanted to determine his molecular weight.”
― Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl

“Children woke up at six-thirty in the morning and shifted directly into fourth gear. Fourteen hours later they rushed straight into sleep at more than a hundred miles an hour without decelerating.”
― Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl

“There can be great depths of love that are not reciprocated.”
― Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl

“Perhaps it's true that love is eternal. But it's appearance changes all the time.”
― Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl

“... Because one who seeks the highest must not leave any path untried.”
― Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl

“No person can open another person, All we can do is wait. And then work with the openness when it occur.s.”
― Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl

“One should be good to oneself. Especially when one is alone.”
― Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl

“The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape.”
― Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl

“- Jag älskar honom, sa han.
- Jag också, sa hon.
Han böjde sig ner mot henne.
- Kunde den omständigheten att vi mötts i denna djupa känsla bilda utgångspunkt för ett lån på fem tusen kronor?
Hon tog fram sin plånbok, öppnade den, gav honom två tusenkronorssedlar.”
― Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl

“The greatest performances where when fingertips took away a very thin veil between people and uncovered the universe in its entirety.”
― Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl

“It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.”
― Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl

“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, The Quiet Girl

“It grieves my heart.”
― Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl

“- Hur är det med våld mot barn, hur hårt får man slå?”
― Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl

“Ми тоди розуміли, що найважливіше не може існувати тільки для тебе одного. Якщо хтось один голодує, то всі відчувають голод. Так само із щастям. Не існує твого окремого щастя. І волі. Якщо вона невільна, то я теж невільний. Вона з таким самим успіхом могла бути на моєму місці. Напевно, так відчуваєш, коли любиш людину.”
― Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl