Smilla Quotes & Sayings

Those who understand such things say that the two partners must always assist each other if a relationship is truly to founder and turn into flotsam. — Peter Hoeg Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow

Some thoughts have glue on them.----Smilla — Peter Hoeg

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 Hoeg

There's no simple aritmetic for life's distribution of happiness and sorrow, no such thing as a standard share. — Peter Hoeg Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow

It's the kind of day that might make you wonder about the meaning of life, and discover that there is none. — Peter Hoeg

When people talk about how fast children forget, how fast they forgive, how sensitive they are, I let it go in one ear and out the other. Children can remember and forget and totally freeze to death the people they don't like. — Peter Hoeg Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow

There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all wrong. No one is more covert than a child, and no one has greater cause to be that way. It's a response to a world that is always using a tin-opener on them to see what they have inside, just in case it ought to be replaced with a more useful type of tinned foodstuff. — Peter Hoeg Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow

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. — Peter Hoeg Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow

There's a look of mischief in his eyes. 'Smilla. Why is it that such an elegant and petite girl like you has such a rough voice.'
I'm sorry,' I say, 'if I give you the impression that it is only my mouth that's rough. I do my best to be rough all over. — Peter Hoeg