Ursula Hegi Quotes

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

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...

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

Much of what the church calls sin is simply being human.

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.

Carefully, the girl skimmed her fingers across her mother's knee. It was smooth; the skin had closed across the tiny wounds like the surface of the river after you toss stones into the waves. Only you...

With the stories of people she’d known since her childhood it was like that: one incident in their lives might come to an ending, but others would lead into new veins, and what was fascinating was to...

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.

These are things, Trudi's father told her long before she was old enough for confession, that the church calls sins, but they are part of being human. And those we need to embrace. The most important...

The risk her stories posed to others—and to herself—was more subtle. When she was younger, she had used secrets as if they were currency, but she’d found out how secrets could use her instead by becom...

These are thing, Trudi's father told her long before she was old enough for confession, that the church call sins, but they are part of being human. And those we need to embrace. The most important th...

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.

He didn't know how to speak properly, how to walk properly, how to comb his hair, and she felt embarrassed for him as he shouted about restoring jobs and national honor, about a better and splendid Ge...

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 transfo...