So Brave, Young, and Handsome
Leif Enger
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Love is a strange fact - it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no sense at all.”
“Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing?”
“A line only gets grace when it curves, you know.”
“We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly, and bitterly wept as we bore him along. For we all loved our comrade so brave, young and handsome, we all loved our comrade although he'd done wrong." The Cowboy's Lament”
“You can’t explain grace, anyway, especially when it arrives almost despite yourself. I didn’t even ask for it, yet somehow it breached and began to work.”
“Sometimes it seems every woman I meet is more than a match for me.”
“Say what you like about melodrama, it beats confusion. The truth is we ought have a chance to say a little something when it’s getting dark. We ought to have a closing scene.”
“I felt laden. Air itself has weight and mass, and Kansas had the most air of anywhere I'd ever been.”
“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”
“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!”
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Book Keywords:
forgiveness, cowboy, failure, writing, wrongdoing
