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1 " She was so mean that she even killed her own name, and now people just pointed to her. "
― Maggie Stiefvater , All the Crooked Saints
2 " A garden of soda bottles filled with water grew by his feet. "
3 " Here was a thing Beatriz wanted: to devote time to understanding how a butterfly was similar to a galaxy. Here was a thing she feared: being asked to do anything else. "
4 " I was looking for a miracle, but I got a story instead, and sometimes those are the same thing. "
5 " 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. "
6 " 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. "
7 " 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. "
8 " 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. "
9 " It is, after all, not the tasks people do but the things they do around the edges of them that reveal who they are. "
10 " 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. "
11 " But we all have darkness inside us. It is just a question of how much of us is light as well. "
12 " 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. "
13 " Maybe if you want things to change, you should start in yourself. "
14 " 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. "
15 " Humans are as drawn to hope as owls are to miracles. It only takes the suggestion of it to stir them up, and the eagerness lingers for a while even when all traces of it are gone. "
16 " The problem with ideas is that they never come all at once. They emerge like prairie dogs. An edge of ear, or the tip of a nose, and sometimes even the whole head. But if you look straight at an idea too fast, it can vanish back into the ground before you're even sure of what you've seen. Instead, you have to sneak up on it slowly, looking out of the corner of your eye, and then and only then you might glance up to get a clear look. "
17 " What a shame that both miracles and radio waves are invisible, because ti would be quite a sight: ribbons of marvel and sound stretching out straight and true from all over the world. "
18 " Even a small voice is still a voice. "
19 " Pete’s eyes followed not the vehicle as it trundled forward but instead the varied and complicated horizon of the desert. The very last of the sun played over it and every stalk of grass dripped with honeyed light. His back ached and his arms were pebbled with goose bumps, but as he savored the view and sucked in big, juniper-scented breaths, he was still besotted.The desert, which was not given to sympathy or sentiment, was nonetheless moved, and for the first time in a long time, it loved someone back. "
20 " Pete fell deeply in love with it.This strange cold desert does not care if you live or die in it, but he fell for it anyway. He had not known before then that a place could feel so raw and so close to the surface. His weak heart felt the danger but could not resist.He fell in love so fiercely that the desert itself noticed. "
