Ursula Hegi famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Children #Love You #Unrequited Love
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

#Writing #Character #Imagine
I like to keep myself wrapped in layers of sleep and wait for the geraniums.
-- Ursula Hegi

#Sleep #Waiting #Layers
About the different levels of skill involved. You have to practice before you become a great masturbator.
-- Ursula Hegi

#Practice #Skills #Different
About endings....unless we do them well, we have to keep repeating them.
-- Ursula Hegi

#Wells
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

#Strong #Happy Marriage #Routine
The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.
-- Ursula Hegi

#Doubt #Beast #Absence
Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine
-- Ursula Hegi

#Believe #Imagine #Grants
What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more.
-- Ursula Hegi

#Rivers #Flow #Brokenness
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

#Writing #Loss #Grace

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