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

- Ursula Hegi

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 eve…

- 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 ordin…

- Ursula Hegi

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

- 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, in…

- 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 recogn…

- Ursula Hegi

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

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

- Ursula Hegi