#leif enger

[virgilean]

I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger

“I am always last to see the beauty I inhabit.”

[idratherdreamofjune]

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. Swede said another thing, too, and it rang in me like a bell: 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.

Leif Enger, Peace Like a River [underappreciated book 17/?]

[you1h]

// how I've grown to love Octobers //

Leif Enger / Angela Carter / my work

[sorryforthebonyelbows]

Charmaine J Forde

Dylan Thomas, Poem in October

Leif Enger, Peace Like a River

Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop

Anne Sexton

Sarah Guillory, Reclaimed

[nobeerreviews]

I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.

-- Leif Enger

[dk-thrive]

She acted as if her faith in words and sentences would always be enough to keep her safe.

— Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse: A Novel (Grove Press, April 2, 2024)

[thrvrnd]

By this time of course reading itself was slipping into shadow. There was a sinuous mistrust of text and its defenders. The country had recently elected its first proudly illiterate president, A MAN UNSPOILT as he constantly bellowed, and this chimp was wildly popular everywhere he went.

-I Cheerfully Refuse, Leif Enger

[thegirlthatcriesacademia]

I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.

Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond // Autumn Stone Hide by Rich Fotia // @oamul // Carol Bishop Hipps // L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables // Gala Mukomolova, Dear Would-be Wife // Leif Enger, Peace Like A River // Cozy October Illustration by tubiks.arts on dribbble // HenryWard Beecher // Ghost in the Pumpkins Patch by Katherine Blower // Joy Fielding // W. S. Merwin