117 Quotes by Leif Enger

The good thing about complete darkness is you can lie there quietly and let the other person rethink the smart-alecky thing they have just said. With any luck they’ll begin to regret it, or possibly they’ll believe you have a magnificent rejoinder in mind but are too well-adjusted to use it.

Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.

People fear miracles because they fear being changed – though ignoring them will change you also.

My sister comes on like a box of nails, but her devotion to the mythic is profound.

You can’t kill history. You can’t shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that – if it’s going to die, it has to die on its own.

The firelight had restored his face to healthy color and she, all Frenchbraided, scarf unslung, resembled an opportunity missed by Rembrandt.

Make of that what you will.

The man on the water stood forty yards out.

Large tomatoes and inner tranquillity are a bewitching combination.