“Sometimes it seems every woman I meet is more than a match for me.” — Leif Enger Every woman Copy Share Image
“Not confidence—I understand confidence. What he had was knowledge.” — Leif Enger Confidence Copy Share Image
“Whenever I didn't know what to write next, I put a swift river in front of his horse and sent the two… — Leif Enger Writing Copy Share Image
“I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, golden and so clean it quivers.” — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
“You said yourself they didn’t hurt your girl.” Waiting, Davy asked, “How many times does a dog have to bite before you… — Leif Enger Animal Copy Share Image
When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth. — Leif Enger Earth Copy Share Image
Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. — Leif Enger Books 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 Stood 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
“it’s difficult to do productive work and fume simultaneously—the labor dissipates your righteous steam—so” — Leif Enger Productivity Copy Share Image
Be careful whom you choose to hate. The small and the vulnerable own a protection great enough, if you could but see… — Leif Enger Be careful 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… — Leif Enger Believe Copy Share Image
“It’s peculiar, to reach your destination,” he told me. “You think you’ll arrive and perform the thing you came for and depart… — Leif Enger Happiness Copy Share Image
“It is one thing to be sick of your own infirmities and another to understand that the people you love most are… — Leif Enger Friendless Copy Share Image
“Looking back, I have to laugh. You know why Martin Bligh was strenuous? Whenever I didn't know what to write next, I… — Leif Enger Swift River 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
“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
“Nothing could quiet a happy crowd of kids like Mr. Holgren's unannounced appearance -- he loved superintending; he was made for it.… — Leif Enger Face Froze 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… — Leif Enger Certainty 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… — Leif Enger Dewey Copy Share Image
“How could we not believe the Lord would guide us? How could we not have faith? For the foundation had been laid… — Leif Enger Belief Copy Share Image
“Before reaching Grassy Butte, though, Dad spied a farmhouse with two pumps in the drive and a red-and-white sign out front saying… — Leif Enger Braille 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
“And now, from beneath the audible, came a low reverberation. It came up through the soles of my feet. I stood still… — Leif Enger Long time 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,… — Leif Enger Easter 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 Sleep Day 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
“A veteran bystander to hard moments, I knew they went by quicker when you were unconscious.” — Leif Enger Hard moments 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
“...for his life seemed a curving line, capricious, moment by moment inviting grace.” — Leif Enger Grace 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
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
Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing? — Leif Enger Failing Copy Share Image
Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic. — Leif Enger Curiosity Copy Share Image
