All The Crooked Saints _ 10/12 - 10/18

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 than eating only memories, though." Marisita knows that the amount of food she prepared for Tony might not be enough for him, but she feels that it's better than only memories of how he had used to be. All of the pilgrims in Bicho Raro know that their lives won't be the same as they were before the first miracle after the second. Marisita doesn't know how long it will take Tony to perform the second miracle, and she wants to make sure that he has more than just memories to focus on during that time.

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