The Thirteenth Child Quotes

“I was tired of living in the between—not just the Between itself, but the in-between I'd nestled myself into. Not quite in the past, but not wholly in the present. Unsure of how to move ahead, unwilling to let go.”
― Erin A. Craig, The Thirteenth Child

“I couldn't have a lifetime, but I could have this moment.”
― Erin A. Craig, The Thirteenth Child

“Leopold dared to look my way, meeting my eyes with a stare so blue my heart began to rekindle some of those ridiculous daydreams.
"For a girl who's so terribly smart and skilled, there's a surprising amount you don't know.”
― Erin A. Craig, The Thirteenth Child

“There is one thing I’d like to ask of you,” I started. “One small favor.”
“Anything.” He said it immediately, unconditionally.
“Will you stay with me till the end comes? Will you sit with me in the dark?”
― Erin A. Craig, The Thirteenth Child

“I wondered if isolation could make someone go mad.”
― Erin A. Craig, The Thirteenth Child

“A wish was nothing but a hopeful regret, and here, at the end of my life, I had none.”
― Erin A. Craig, The Thirteenth Child

“I couldn’t imagine a love like that, so pure and earnest and insistent on existing in a world where things that were pure and earnest were so often crushed. I wondered what it would be like to feel such a love so wholeheartedly.”
― Erin A. Craig, The Thirteenth Child

“A wish was nothing but a hopeful regret.”
― Erin A. Craig, The Thirteenth Child

“I couldn’t imagine a love like that, so pure and earnest and insistent on existing in a world where things that were pure and earnest were so often crushed. I wondered what it would be like to feel such a love so wholeheartedly.”

― Erin A. Craig, The Thirteenth Child”
― Erin A. Craig, The Thirteenth Child

“presence of nobility, that dreadful day when I’d met Prince Leopold. I had no desire to move anywhere near him.”
― Erin A. Craig, The Thirteenth Child