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All the Crooked Saints -  Maggie Stiefvater In the very last resolution of the book, Beatriz and Marisita ran out into the desert to find Daniel, where he was, as Marisita said, dead. Beatriz noticed that the owl nearby had his eyes and his ears and his breath, and she knew that there was one thing that she could do to save him. The concept of sacrifice wasn't enough, though. Beatriz was able to save him, but she started going blind herself. In her effort to protect her cousin, she was falling into the darkness, and any interjection on that could cause someone else to join her. That was what happened, when Pete found where she was, but when they both admitted what had happened, the miracle fixed itself. The fact that the idea of sacrifice wasn't enough stood out to me. Generally, whenever someone starts to sacrifice themselves for someone else, the resolution comes right away, and that idea alone is enough to save them. But in this book, the thought of sacrifice wasn...

All the Crooked Saints -  Maggie Stiefvater The very first sentence of Chapter 25 stuck out to me, just because of the wording and the things it said. It matches the theme of the author's writing, the way she tells the story. "Buildings are not very good at remembering the people who once occupied them." I don't know what made this quotation stand out, but the way this sentence was worded seemed different from how the rest of the book was worded. I also was surprised that she would start a chapter with a sentence like this. It intrigued me to read more, because chapters aren't generally started with something like this. As well as that, I liked how this quote was a statement, like a fact, rather than an opinion. It could have said, "Some people think that buildings are not very good at remembering the people who once occupied them." or used one of the characters' opinions, but the way Steifvater chose to word it, as an fact, stood out to me. ...

All the Crooked Saints -  Maggie Stiefvater In the chapters I read this week, it stuck out to me that the pilgrims in Bicho Raro, Colorado, have thoughts and feelings different than ordinary people. Maybe because of the miracles performed on them, but it could be something else. I was reading and found a short quote that held the essence of how changed they were, how they had grown used to the miracles' effects.  "She assembled a pile of crusty bolillos, a cantaloupe cut into a bright orange moon, a covered bowl of fried red beans, a thermos of creamy minguiche, two empanadas, three dark-red tomatoes from Nana's garden, and a fried bit of beef that had looked a little friendlier the night before. Although it would have been a tremendous amount of food for an ordinary man to eat, Marisita thought it nonetheless seemed insufficient to feed a giant. It was better than eating only memories, though." The last part of the quote stuck out to me: "It was better ...