Ursula Hegi quotes
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I like to keep myself wrapped in layers of sleep and wait for the geraniums.”
-- Ursula HegiSource : Ursula Hegi (2012). “Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
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“About the different levels of skill involved. You have to practice before you become a great masturbator.”
-- Ursula HegiSource : Ursula Hegi (2011). “Hotel of the Saints”, p.149, Simon and Schuster
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“About endings....unless we do them well, we have to keep repeating them.”
-- Ursula HegiSource : Ursula Hegi (2011). “Stones from the River”, p.161, Simon and Schuster
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“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 HegiSource : Ursula Hegi (2012). “Intrusions”, p.208, Simon and Schuster
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“The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.”
-- Ursula HegiSource : Ursula Hegi (2012). “Children and Fire: A Novel”, p.249, Simon and Schuster
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“Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine”
-- Ursula HegiSource : Ursula Hegi (2011). “Ursula Hegi The Burgdorf Cycle Boxed Set: Floating in My Mother's Palm, Stones from the River, The Vision of Emma Blau. Children and Fire”, p.51, Simon and Schuster
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“What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more.”
-- Ursula HegiSource : Ursula Hegi (2011). “Ursula Hegi The Burgdorf Cycle Boxed Set: Floating in My Mother's Palm, Stones from the River, The Vision of Emma Blau. Children and Fire”, p.675, Simon and Schuster
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“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
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