“Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.”
“There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall.”
“And then she began to think about Lady Glencora herself. What a strange, weird nature she was,—with her round blue eyes and wavy hair, looking sometimes like a child and sometimes almost like an old woman! And how she talked! What things she said, and what terrible forebodings she uttered of stranger things that she meant to say!”
“I'm old with living.So much older than almost thirteen.”
“A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.”
“You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's thirteen, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace.”