Top 35 Erin A. Craig Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “There’s a power in names, don’t you think? Once your name is given away, you can’t help but be pulled along by those who have it.”

— Erin A. Craig

2. “You won’t. You’re too smart for that, and you care too much. You’ll make mistakes – we all do – but you care enough to keep fighting. That’s the truly important part. You care too much to quit.”

— Erin A. Craig

3. “A midsummer’s night, when the sky is full of sparkling stars and fireflies.”

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4. “Before he could stop me, I turned on my heel and sprinted back to the safety of my dinghy. I needed to be out on the water, out among the waves. I needed the sea breezes to push the building panic from me, needed the rhythmic pull of the ocean swells to set my mind right again.”

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5. “Come not as you are but as you wish to be seen.”

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6. “The euphoria was tangible: I could taste it in the air, the sweetness coating my mouth and going straight to my head like champagne.”

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7. “Nights like this were meant to be shared, remembered, and talked about for years. Skies like this were meant to be kissed under.”

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8. “We are born of salt and starlight.”

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9. “All the dreamers are castle-bound. At midnight’s stroke, we will unwind, Revealing fantasies soft or unkind. Show me debauched nightmares or sunniest daydreams. Come not as you are but as you wish to be seen.”

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10. “We are born of the Salt, we live by the Salt, and to the Salt we return.”

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11. “It shouldn’t matter what your parents did, just what you do as a person.”

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12. “When certain kinds of people get desperate enough, they’re willing to do anything.”

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13. “As big and wide and wondrous as the world can be, everyone eventually wants to come home.”

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14. “Regret was the darkest nightmare of all.”

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15. “It still smelled like autumn here. Pine needles and cold, crisp air, bonfires and moldering leaves, the world dying as it readied to be reborn.”

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16. “You can’t change traditions just because you don’t like them.”

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17. “Oh my darling Annaleigh, remember when you let the turtles go? Some things can’t be kept.” He cupped my cheek, and my tears trickled down his fingers. “Be brave. Be strong. You’ll always have my whole heart.”

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18. “Every Thaumas child learned to read their way across the constellations before every picking up a book of letters.”

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19. “You’re the first thing I think of when I open my eyes and the only thing I spend my nights dreaming of.”

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20. “Contrition means nothing if it’s forced” -Gran.”

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21. “What secrets of hers did this man keep?”

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22. “When you want something badly enough, you make it happen.”

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23. “The rightness of a name was woven into the very essence of the thing itself.”

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24. “Skies like this were made to be kissed under.”

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25. “I closed my eyes, learning into his arms. In them I felt safe.”

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26. “It was a marvel to me, the way these little insects could see the bigger picture and strive for the greater good, forsaking their own needs to protect the hive.”

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27. “When his creation was molded just so – two arms, two legs, a head, and a heart – Pontus breathed some of his own life into it, making the first People of the Salt. So when we die, we can’t be buried in the ground. We slip back into the water and are home.”

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28. “My place in the world was nebulous, a malleable concept only given definition by the space I occupied.”

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29. “I couldn’t have a lifetime, but I could have this moment.”

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30. “I’d never want to leave the sea. It’s my home.”

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31. “We can’t talk about the things we really want to, so people invent other things to discuss.”

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32. “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.”

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33. “We were like little wooden puzzle pieces at McCleary’s store. Just little bits of colorful chaos on their own, but once they were snapped into place, you could see they were meant to be together all along.”

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34. “I wondered if isolation could make someone go mad.”

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35. “I was crying for all the things I’d thought I’d understood but didn’t. Crying for all I’d hoped for that wouldn’t be.”

— Erin A. Craig