When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.
Peter HøegThose who were on the inside, the majority that is, for them it had been hard to get his point, mostly they were just pleased that they were on the inside, that they were the fittest. For those on the outside, the fear and abandonment amounts to almost everything; everybody knows that. Understanding is something one does best when one is on the borderline.
Peter HøegDo you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.
Peter HøegThe problem with anger against God is that it's impossible to go higher in the system to complain.
Peter Høeg