Lydia Hartley

“Once in my life I knew a grief so hard I could actually hear it inside, scraping at the lining of my stomach, an audible ache, dredging with hooks as rivers are dredged when someone’s been missing too long.”
― Leif Enger, Peace Like a River

“So thoughtlessly we sling on our destinies.”
― Leif Enger, Peace Like a River

“Sleep that day was a warm pool in which I dove and stayed, sporadically lifting my head to sense the world.”
― Leif Enger, Peace Like a River

“When did it come to Davy Land that exile is a country of shifting borders, hard to quit yet hard to endure, no matter your wide shoulders, no matter your toughened heart?”
― Leif Enger, Peace Like a River