Natalie Babbitt quotes

„Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.“

—  Natalie Babbitt, book Tuck Everlasting

Source: Tuck Everlasting

„Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.“

—  Natalie Babbitt, book Tuck Everlasting

Source: Tuck Everlasting

„You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.“

—  Natalie Babbitt, book Tuck Everlasting

Source: Tuck Everlasting

„Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't."---Tuck Everlasting“

—  Natalie Babbitt

„And suddenly, she longed for a thunderstorm.“

—  Natalie Babbitt, book Tuck Everlasting

Source: Tuck Everlasting

„Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life“

—  Natalie Babbitt, book Tuck Everlasting

Variant: dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.
Source: Tuck Everlasting

„But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing.“

—  Natalie Babbitt, book Tuck Everlasting

Source: Tuck Everlasting

„… with white dawns and glaring moons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.“

—  Natalie Babbitt, book Tuck Everlasting

Source: Tuck Everlasting

„Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to live.“

—  Natalie Babbitt

Variant: Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.
Source: Tuck Everlasting: Scholastic Book Guides

„For, through the twilight sounds of crickets and sighing trees, a faint, surprising wisp of music came floating to them and all three turned toward it, toward the wood.“

—  Natalie Babbitt, book Tuck Everlasting

Source: Tuck Everlasting

„You dont have to live forever just live.“

—  Natalie Babbitt, book Tuck Everlasting

Source: Tuck Everlasting

„Closing the gate on her oldest fears as she had closed the gate of her own fenced yard, she discovered the wings she'd always wished she had.“

—  Natalie Babbitt, book Tuck Everlasting

Source: Tuck Everlasting

„I was having that dream again, the good one where we're all in heaven and never heard of Treegap.“

—  Natalie Babbitt, book Tuck Everlasting

Source: Tuck Everlasting