Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comfort in. Lazarus obeying orders and climbing up out of the grave - now there's a miracle, and you can bet it upset a lot of folks who were standing around at the time. When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of the earth.
Leif EngerYou canโt kill history. You canโt shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than thatโif itโs going to die, it has to die on its own
Leif EngerWhere do you think youโre going?โ Dr. Nokes demandedโฆ. โWhat do you have for directions?โ And Dadโฆ said, โI have the substance of things hoped for. I have the anticipation of things unseen
Leif EngerBe 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.
Leif Enger