Natalie Babbitt citations

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

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

“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.”

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

“And suddenly, she longed for a thunderstorm.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“You dont have to live forever just live.”

“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.”

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