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> [You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leif-enger/you-can-embark-on-new-and-steeper-versions-of-your-old-sins-you-know/)

[Leif Enger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leif-enger/)

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## More by Leif Enger

> [“A line only gets grace when it curves, you know.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leif-enger/a-line-only-gets-grace-when-it-curves-you-know/)

[Leif Enger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leif-enger/)

> [Of all facial expressions, which is the worst to have aimed at you? Wouldn't you agree it's disgust?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leif-enger/of-all-facial-expressions-which-is-the-worst-to-have-aimed-at-you/)

[Leif Enger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leif-enger/)

> [“Let me say something about that word: miracle. For too long it's been used to characterize things or events that, though pleasant, are entirely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leif-enger/let-me-say-something-about-that-word-miracle-for-too-long-it-s-been/)

[Leif Enger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leif-enger/)

> [“I breathe deeply, and certainty enters into me like light, like a piece of science, and curious music seems to hum inside my fingers.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leif-enger/i-breathe-deeply-and-certainty-enters-into-me-like-light-like-a-piece/)

[Leif Enger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leif-enger/)

> [Pride is the rope God allows us all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leif-enger/pride-is-the-rope-god-allows-us-all/)

[Leif Enger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leif-enger/)

> [Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leif-enger/sometimes-heroism-is-nothing-more-than-patience-curiosity-and-a/)

[Leif Enger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leif-enger/)

> [“Someday, you know, we're going to be shown the great ledger of our recorded decisions-a dread concept you nonetheless know in your deepest soul…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leif-enger/someday-you-know-we-re-going-to-be-shown-the-great-ledger-of-our/)

[Leif Enger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leif-enger/)

> [“Dewey Hall was the only building on campus not made of brick, and the tornado came for it in absolute maturity, no umbilical growth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leif-enger/dewey-hall-was-the-only-building-on-campus-not-made-of-brick-and-the/)

[Leif Enger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leif-enger/)

> [“If you can’t talk sense, don’t talk at all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leif-enger/if-you-can-t-talk-sense-don-t-talk-at-all/)

[Leif Enger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leif-enger/)

> [“You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sin, you know, and cry tears doing it that are genuine as any.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leif-enger/you-can-embark-on-new-and-steeper-versions-of-your-old-sin-you-know/)

[Leif Enger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leif-enger/)

> [Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leif-enger/real-miracles-bother-people-like-strange-sudden-pains-unknown-in/)

[Leif Enger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leif-enger/)

> [It is one thing to say you're at war with this whole world and stick your chest out believing it, but when the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leif-enger/it-is-one-thing-to-say-you-re-at-war-with-this-whole-world-and-stick/)

[Leif Enger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leif-enger/)

> [“It is one thing to be sick of your own infirmities and another to understand that the people you love most are sick of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leif-enger/it-is-one-thing-to-be-sick-of-your-own-infirmities-and-another-to/)

[Leif Enger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leif-enger/)

> [Be careful whom you choose to hate. The small and the vulnerable own a protection great enough, if you could but see it, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leif-enger/be-careful-whom-you-choose-to-hate-the-small-and-the-vulnerable-own-a/)

[Leif Enger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leif-enger/)

> [Once torched by truth...a little thing like faith is easy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leif-enger/once-torched-by-truth-a-little-thing-like-faith-is-easy/)

[Leif Enger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leif-enger/)

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