“When did it come to Davy Land that exile is a country of shifting borders, hard to quit yet hard to endure, no matter your wide shoulders, no matter your toughened heart?” — 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
“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… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
“I breathe deeply, and certainty enters into me like light, like a piece of science, and curious music seems to hum inside my fingers.… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic. — Leif Enger 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 deepest soul… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
“Dewey Hall was the only building on campus not made of brick, and the tornado came for it in absolute maturity, no umbilical growth… — Leif Enger 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 as any.” — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
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… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
