Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. — Leif Enger Books Copy Share Image
“You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sin, you know, and cry tears doing it that are genuine… — Leif Enger Cry tears Copy Share Image
“He stood and nodded at the great whitening sky. “We’re sure small, wouldn’t you say? Takes the onus off, somehow.” — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
“it’s difficult to do productive work and fume simultaneously—the labor dissipates your righteous steam—so” — Leif Enger Productivity Copy Share Image
“A veteran bystander to hard moments, I knew they went by quicker when you were unconscious.” — Leif Enger Hard moments Copy Share Image
Love is a strange fact - it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no sense at all. — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
“Sleep that day was a warm pool in which I dove and stayed, sporadically lifting my head to sense the world.” — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
“You are no failure, on a river. The water moves regardless - for all it cares, you might be a minnow or… — Leif Enger Failure Copy Share Image
“Say what you like about melodrama, it beats confusion. The truth is we ought have a chance to say a little something… — Leif Enger Melodrama Copy Share Image
We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to… — Leif Enger Children Copy Share Image
“Once in my life I knew a grief so hard I could actually hear it inside, scraping at the lining of my… — Leif Enger Death Copy Share Image
You can’t kill history. You can’t shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
Is there a single person on whom I can press belief? No sir. All I can do is say, Here's how it… — Leif Enger Belief Copy Share Image
“You never like it to happen, for something as hopeful and sudden as a January thaw to come to an end, but… — Leif Enger Flower Copy Share Image
Once traveling, it's remarkable how quickly faith erodes. It starts to look like something else--ignorance, for example. Same thing happened to the… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
“But the ruinous thing about growing up is that we stop creating mysteries where none exist, and worse, we usually try to… — Leif Enger Mysteries Copy Share Image
My sister, Swede, who often sees to the nub, offered this: People fear miracles because they fear being changed--though ignoring them will… — Leif Enger Bells Copy Share Image
“But I shook my head. I just couldn't go with him. Nor could I tell him it wasn't his public mistreatment that… — Leif Enger Mistreatment Copy Share Image
“Of course vindictiveness is an ugly trait and, yes, I do mean to forgive all these nice deserters; I mean, eventually, to… — Leif Enger Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“Listening to Dad's guitar, halting yet lovely in the search for phrasing, I thought: Fair is whatever God wants to do.” — Leif Enger Fair Copy Share Image
I prayed the Lord would sort (my prayers) out and answer as needed. Above all that he would hurry. — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
“...for his life seemed a curving line, capricious, moment by moment inviting grace.” — Leif Enger Grace Copy Share Image
Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen. — Leif Enger Apologetic Copy Share Image
You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are… — Leif Enger Cry Copy Share Image
“Not confidence—I understand confidence. What he had was knowledge.” — Leif Enger Confidence Copy Share Image
Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is… — Leif Enger Advice Copy Share Image
Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic. — Leif Enger Curiosity Copy Share Image
Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing? — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
Of all facial expressions, which is the worst to have aimed at you? Wouldn't you agree it's disgust? — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves. — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King… — Leif Enger Book Copy Share Image
Where do you think you’re going?” Dr. Nokes demanded…. “What do you have for directions?” And Dad… said, “I have the substance… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
“When I woke in the dark I was smiling - it's a happy thing to brace for a visit from old friend… — Leif Enger Envy Copy Share Image
“Someday, you know, we're going to be shown the great ledger of our recorded decisions-a dread concept you nonetheless know in your… — Leif Enger Fear Copy Share Image
“When did it come to Davy Land that exile is a country of shifting borders, hard to quit yet hard to endure,… — Leif Enger Exile Copy Share Image
“Once traveling, it's remarkable how quickly faith erodes. It starts to look like something else - ignorance, for example...Sure it's weak, but… — Leif Enger Faith Copy Share Image
