Alyssa

“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.”
― Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

“Sometimes the devil you know is bad enough to chance the one you don’t.”
― Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

“For knowing too much, rather than too little. For a woman, neither was an acceptable way to be.”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

“It is not easy to make a friend let alone lose one.”
― Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse