117 Quotes by Leif Enger
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What else exhausts like sustained deception?
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We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.
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Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.
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There is no better sound than whom you adore when they are sleepy and pleased.
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Be careful whom you choose to hate. The small and the vulnerable own a protection great enough, if you could but see it, to melt you into jelly. Beware those who reside beneath the shadow of the Wings.
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Nadine,” said my voice. “You know how people daydream about the Bahamas, with the beaches and palm trees? I don’t know if they really do, no doubt it’s mostly advertising, but you’re the island I think about.
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Routine is worry’s sly assassin.
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Dad and Roxanna were talking lightly in the way adults do who’ve just shifted gears to accommodate children – an infuriating tone for kids attempting to sound the future.
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Is there a single person on whom I can press belief? No sir. All I can do is say, Here’s how it went. Here’s what I saw. I’ve been there and am going back. Make of it what you will.
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