All the Crooked Saints
Maggie Stiefvater
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I was looking for a miracle, but I got a story instead, and sometimes those are the same thing.”
“She had still been learning how to live with the hard truth that the most interesting parts of her thoughts usually got left behind when she tried to put them into words.”
“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.”
“By relegating the things we fear and don't understand to religion, and the things we understand and control to science, we rob science of its artistry and religion of its mutability.”
“It’s an enormous sky out there with a lot of stars above it and a lot of folks underneath it, and all of us, stars and human, are missing someone in the dark.”
“It is, after all, not the tasks people do but the things they do around the edges of them that reveal who they are.”
“But we all have darkness inside us. It is just a question of how much of us is light as well.”
“Fear and rage are not very different when you think about it, two hungry animals that often hunt the same prey—emotion—and hide from the same predator—logic.”
“Do you have darkness inside you?” “Yes,” Tony said. “And do you want to be rid of it?” This is a harder question to answer than one might think at first blush. Almost no one would think it’s correct to answer this question with a no, but the truth is that we men and women often hate to be rid of the familiar, and sometimes our darkness is the thing we know the best.”
“The conception of perfection exists only so we have something to strive toward. Impossibility is built into it, which is why we call it perfect instead of extremely good.”
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Book Keywords:
change, time, life-lessons, perfection
