

“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.”
― All the Crooked Saints
― All the Crooked Saints

“But we all have darkness inside us. It is just a question of how much of us is light as well.”
― All the Crooked Saints
― All the Crooked Saints
“It's men who trust they will suffer no consequences for their actions, while women suffer no matter what they do.”
― The Book of Essie
― The Book of Essie

“Lightning and love are created in very similar ways. There is some debate over how both lightning and love form, but most experts agree that both require the presence of complementary opposites. A towering thundercloud is full of opposites: ice and positive charge at its uppermost point, water and negative change at its base. In electricity and in love, opposites attract, and so as these opposites begin to interact, an electrical field develops. In a cloud, this field eventually grows so powerful that it must burst from the cloud in the form of lightning, visible from miles away. It is essentially the same in a love affair.”
― All the Crooked Saints
― All the Crooked Saints

“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.”
― All the Crooked Saints
― All the Crooked Saints

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