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 a greater need to be that way. It's a response to a world that's always using a can opener to open them up to see what's inside, wondering whether it ought to be replaced with a more useful sort of preserves.


Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010) - ISBN: 9781429998536

Peter Høeg Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...