Eric Umbarger

“Buttered toast in a sunlit kitchen, a stand of corn and squash out back, a coming reality where sorrow did not draw and quarter them every waking dawn. Is it so much to ask? A three-chord song, a common life? Could we all have that, someday? Could I?”
― Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

“I never was anyone's parent, so this rapid expansion of love and terror confounded me.”
― Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

“Lark and I had media once—internet, TV, the vivid suspect world delivered secondhand, ready always to predict our moods and sell us better ones—but we were early abandoners.”
― 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