Ursula Hegi Quotes & Sayings

I don't write for an audience. I write for myself. And if I imagine an audience at all, it's the characters, but I know that I would keep writing even if no one ever published me again, even if no one ever read me again. — Ursula Hegi

Marrying a woman who was reckless must have been the ultimate reckless act, requiring a lifetime of balancing to keep both of them safe — Ursula Hegi

She also told me it wore down her spirit to live in the desert landscape that was parched by midsummer, to plant a garden each spring and struggle to keep it alive past July. — Ursula Hegi

That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and
in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love
you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents. — Ursula Hegi

I think ... you should have children, John." At least he's no longer talking about bugs.
"I'm too young, Dad."
"It's the most important thing ... I've done in ... my life. — Ursula Hegi

And what she hated more than anything that moment was for all the differences between people to matter no more - no more differences in size and belief- differences that became justification for destruction. — Ursula Hegi

Now the purpose of her stories had changed. She spun them to discover their meaning. In the telling, she found, you reached a point where you could not go back, where - as the stories changed - it transformed you, too. — Ursula Hegi

About endings ... unless we do them well, we have to keep repeating them. — Ursula Hegi

High in the hazy sky, the snowfkakes looked tiny and all alike, but as they drifted past the narrow window of the sewing room, all were unique - long or round or triangular - as if they'd borrowed their shapes from the clouds they'd come from. — Ursula Hegi

What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more. — Ursula Hegi

She fought him by reminding herself what her father had said to Emil Hesping - that they lived in a country where believing had taken the place of knowing. — Ursula Hegi

A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition, interrupted by difficulties and plain, boring routine. — Ursula Hegi

Everyone does it."
"But no one talks about it," Gloria said. "About the different levels of skill involved. You have to practice before you become a great masturbator. — Ursula Hegi

The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts. — Ursula Hegi

And what she wanted more than anything that moment was for all the differences between people to matter no more - differences in size and race and belief ... — Ursula Hegi

I like to keep myself wrapped in layers of sleep and wait for the geraniums. — Ursula Hegi

In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary moments. — Ursula Hegi

...much of what the church calls sin is simply being human. — Ursula Hegi

Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine — Ursula Hegi

Given a choice, she would rather be the one who was persecuted than the one doing the persecuting
both had a terrible price to pay, but she would rather endure humiliation and fear than grow numb to what it was to be human. — Ursula Hegi