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
“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
“Nothing could quiet a happy crowd of kids like Mr. Holgren's unannounced appearance -- he loved superintending; he was made for it.… — 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 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
“Listening to Dad's guitar, halting yet lovely in the search for phrasing, I thought: Fair is whatever God wants to do.” — Leif Enger Wisdom-in-fiction 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 Patriotism 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
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 Erode 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
“I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, golden and so clean it quivers.” — Leif Enger 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
“it’s difficult to do productive work and fume simultaneously—the labor dissipates your righteous steam—so” — Leif Enger Productivity Copy Share Image
We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves. — Leif Enger Arms 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
Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen. — Leif Enger Apologetic Copy Share Image
Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing? — Leif Enger Failing 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“...for his life seemed a curving line, capricious, moment by moment inviting grace.” — Leif Enger Life 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
“Say what you like about melodrama, it beats confusion. The truth is we ought have a chance to say a little something… — Leif Enger Truth 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 Copy Share Image
