All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater

Beautiful 

They travel on perfectly straight paths from their broadcast source, and because the Earth is round, it does not take them long to part ways with the ground and head out to the stars. Wouldn't we all, if we had the chance? p1

Is this science? Religion? It is difficult even for scientists and saints to tell the difference between the two. Perhaps it doesn't matter. When you cultivate invisible seeds, you can't expect everyone to agree on the shape of your invisible crops. p2

"Even a small voice is still a voice." p9

Sometimes, when a question is about a secret, people will ask a different but related question, hoping to get an answer that will work for both questions. p13

It was just that Marisita was not sure that saints and witches were very different in the end. p61

This kindness, however, only made the situation worse for Pete. It emphasized that the person who was being cruelest to Pete was actually Pete. p111

But I, Diablo Diablo, think that if we're all out there missing someone, that means that we're all really together on that one note, aren't we? So none of us are really along as long as we're lonely." p202-203

He had thought he had lived a happy life, but now he understood that he had only ever been content. This moment was his first moment of true happiness, and now he had to readjust every other expectation in his life to match it. p215

Doubt was not truth, though; it was an opinion. p302

Attraction/ Romance

There was, after all, a large difference between the way flowers drew hummingbirds and the way artificial light compelled moths. p56

LOL

... [they] like a lot of people who were destined to be friends, couldn't stand each other. p20

"There's a helluva gap between can and should," Tony said, "and I'm not eager to close it." p22

Whoa

In Colorado Spring, twelve thousand interned German prisoners of war harvested sugar beets in work camps. p98

"Kid, you're so straight you make rulers look bad." p160

Description

This exchange was unproductive as Luis the one-handed did not speak very good English and Pete was from Oklahoma and had only loneliness as his second language. p109

We almost always can point to that hundredth blow, but we don't always mark the ninety-nine other things that happen before we change. p195

Parable

There's a great parable about things piling up on you on page 195 

A desert is a lot like an ocean, if you replace all of the water with air. It stretches out and out and out in unfathomable distance and, in the absence of sunlight, turns to pure black. p122

Sad

"She likes me because she has to like me. What if nobody else does?" p244

She found it depressing, how fast memories were replaced by rumors. Tragedy left behind such subtle artifacts. p255-256

Hindsight/ History

It had started drying out in 1950 and would keep it up until 1957, but in 1955, they didn't know that it would have an end. p267 (I think this just struck me so much because right now we're in the middle of COVID and have no idea when it'll end.)


"Always take blame for your own actions but never take blame for someone else's." p278

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