117 Quotes by Leif Enger

I’d long thought of her as an unfading Penelope, but that was the lazy eye of infatuation. In truth she’d aged more than the decade elapsed since Alec disappeared. Yet somehow the years revealed her strength. Like a willow she turned all weathers to advantage.

He had the heartening bulk of the aging athlete defeated by pastry. He delivered all news as though it were good. Most welcome was his prediction that language would gradually return.

At that moment there was nothing – no valiant history or hopeful future – half worth my sister’s pardon. Listening to Dad’s guitar, halting yet lovely in the search for phrasing, I thought: Fair is whatever God wants to do.

One of the things Rune admired about Lucy was her impractical curiosity. She was writing notes in the margins.

The evidence of my life lay before me, and I was unconvinced.

Whenever I didn’t know what to write next, I put a swift river in front of his horse and sent the two of them across!

A veteran bystander to hard moments, I knew they went by quicker when you were unconscious.

This was maybe best of all. I never once expected to be someone’s nice surprise.

Once torched by truth, Swede wrote years later, a little thing like faith is easy.