117 Quotes by Leif Enger

My sister, Swede, who often sees to the nub, offered this: People fear miracles because they fear being changed – though ignoring them will change you also.

Although saying this, I realize it may have been illusory. Memory’s oldest trick is convincing us of its accuracy.

You know how it is – you grow up with a story all your life, it can transmute into something you neither question nor particularly value. It’s why we have such bad luck learning from mistakes.

It’s never been hard for me to fall in love, a quality that has yet to simplify one single day of my life.

No miracle happens without a witness. Someone to declare, Here’s what I saw. Here’s how it went. Make of it what you will.

Do you know who is up at four in the morning? Dairy farmers. Paperboys. Lunatics.

I felt laden. Air itself has weight and mass, and Kansas had the most air of anywhere I’d ever been.

He had a hundred merry crinkles at his eyes and a long-haul sadness in his shoulders.

Sleep that day was a warm pool in which I dove and stayed, sporadically lifting my head to sense the world.