Ursula Hegi Quotes

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

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

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The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.

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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.

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About the different levels of skill involved. You have to practice before you become a great masturbator.

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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 transformed you, too.

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

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What linked them was not only the closeness they'd felt as children, but also the fear of losing that closeness.

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Ursula Hegi

Ursula Hegi

Born: May 23, 1946

Died: July 27, 2026 (aged 80)

Bio: Ursula Hegi was a German-born American writer. She was also an instructor in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.

Known for:

Stones from the River (1994)
Floating in My Mother's Palm (1990)
The vision of Emma Blau (2000)
Children and Fire: A Novel (2004)
Salt Dancers Reading Group Guide (1995)

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