I have sat in the dark and looked at them both, the child and the woman. And the … - Peter Høeg

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Nothing outside of ourselves will ever make us happy, because happiness is an inside-out experience.

Peter Høeg

I have sat in the dark and looked at them both, the child and the woman. And the feeling has become too much. It is not sorrow or joy; it is the weight and the pressure of having been brought into their lives, and of knowing that if one were ever to be separated from them, it would mean your obliteration.

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