Swift River Quote by Leif Enger

“A line only gets grace when it curves, you know.”

— Leif Enger

Of all facial expressions, which is the worst to have aimed at you? Wouldn't you agree it's disgust?

— 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…

— 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.…

— Leif Enger

Pride is the rope God allows us all.

— Leif Enger

Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.

— 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…

— 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…

— Leif Enger

“If you can’t talk sense, don’t talk at all.”

— 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.”

— Leif Enger

Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature.

— 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…

— Leif Enger