So Brave, Young, and Handsome Quotes

“Love is a strange fact - it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no sense at all.”
― Leif Enger, So Brave, Young, and Handsome

“Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing?”
― Leif Enger, So Brave, Young, and Handsome

“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”
― Leif Enger, So Brave, Young, and Handsome

“Sometimes it seems every woman I meet is more than a match for me.”
― Leif Enger, So Brave, Young, and Handsome

“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.”
― Leif Enger, So Brave, Young, and Handsome

“...for his life seemed a curving line, capricious, moment by moment inviting grace.”
― Leif Enger, So Brave, Young, and Handsome

“A line only gets grace when it curves, you know.”
― Leif Enger, So Brave, Young, and Handsome

“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.”
― Leif Enger, So Brave, Young, and Handsome

“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!”
― Leif Enger, So Brave, Young and Handsome

“In times of dread it’s good to have an old man along. An old man has seen worse.”
― Leif Enger, So Brave, Young and Handsome

“I felt laden. Air itself has weight and mass, and Kansas had the most air of anywhere I'd ever been.”
― Leif Enger, So Brave, Young, and Handsome

“It’s peculiar, to reach your destination,” he told me. “You think you’ll arrive and perform the thing you came for and depart in contentment. Instead you get there and find distance still to go.”
― Leif Enger, So Brave, Young, and Handsome

“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”
― Leif Enger, So Brave, Young, and Handsome

“A cowboy doesn't ask for much, that's my observation. A flashy ride, a pretty girl, momentary glory...”
― Leif Enger, So Brave, Young, and Handsome

“He stood and nodded at the great whitening sky. “We’re sure small, wouldn’t you say? Takes the onus off, somehow.”
― Leif Enger, So Brave, Young, and Handsome

“You are no failure, on a river. The water moves regardless - for all it cares, you might be a minnow or a tadpole, a turtle on a beavered log. You might be nothing at all.”
― Leif Enger, So Brave, Young, and Handsome

“Love is a strange fact-it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no since at all.”
― Leif Enger, So Brave, Young, and Handsome