The Baker's Dozen Quotes

“However honest you may be, your heart is small and your fist is tight. Fall again, mount again, learn how to count again!”
― Aaron Shepard, The Baker's Dozen: A Saint Nicholas Tale, with Bonus Cookie Recipe for St. Nicholas Christmas Cookies

“And this, they say, is how thirteen became the “baker’s dozen”—a custom common for over a century, and alive in some places to this day.”
― Aaron Shepard, The Baker's Dozen: A Saint Nicholas Tale, with Bonus Cookie Recipe for St. Nicholas Christmas Cookies