Jean Hegland famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

This body is yours. No one can ever take it from you, if only you will accept yourself, claim it again--your arms, your spine, your ribs, the small of your back. It's all yours. All this bounty, all this beauty, all this strength and grace is yours. This garden is yours. Take it back. Take it back.
-- Jean Hegland

#Garden #Grace #Ribs
It's a physical urge, huger and stronger than thirst or sex. Halfway back on the left side of my head there is a spot that yearns, that longs, that pleads for the jolt of a bullet. I want that rage, that fire, that final empty rip. I want to be let out of this dark cavern, to open myself up to the ease of not-living. I am tired of sorrow and struggle and worry. ... I want to turn out the last light.
-- Jean Hegland

#Sex #Rip #Struggle
I never knew how much we consumed. It seems as if we are all appetite, as if a human being is simply a bundle of needs to drain the world. Itâ€™s no wonder there are wars, no wonder the earth and water and air are polluted. Itâ€™s no wonder the economy collapsed, if Eva and I use so much merely to stay alive.
-- Jean Hegland

#War #Air #Water

Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength
Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
Touch me â€˜til my ribs become piano keys, â€˜til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.
I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life.
I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.
Lina loved her little sister so much that it was like an ache under her ribs.

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