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Top Natalie Babbitt Quotes

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Favorite Natalie Babbitt Quotes

1. "I was having that dream again, the good one where we're all in heaven and never heard of Treegap." ~ Natalie Babbitt
2. "The first week of August hangs at the very top of the summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for after." ~ Natalie Babbitt
3. "Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes." ~ Natalie Babbitt
4. "Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't."---Tuck Everlasting" ~ Natalie Babbitt
5. "For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist." ~ Natalie Babbitt
6. "Well, thought Winnie, crossing her arms on the windowsill, she was different. Things had happened to her that were hers alone, and had nothing to do with them. It was the first time. And no amount of telling about it could help them understand or share what she felt. It was satisfying and lonely, both at once." ~ Natalie Babbitt
7. "(I)n reading . . . stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do in ordinary life. It's amazing that those twenty-six little marks of the alphabet can arrange themselves on the pages of a book and accomplish all that. Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely." ~ Natalie Babbitt
8. "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
9. "But it's enough, just having this day. It's the knowing there's something different, something special up there waiting. It's the knowing you could choose to change your days--climb up there and throw yourself right down the throat of the only and last and greatest terrible secret in the world. Except you don't climb up." ~ Natalie Babbitt
10. "Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to live." ~ Natalie Babbitt
11. "Everything's a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping. The frogs is part of it, and the bugs, and the fish, and the wood thush, too.And people. But never the same ones. Always coming in new, always growing and changing, and always moving on. Thats the way it's suppose to be. That's the way it is.If we didn't move it out ourself, it would stay here forever, trying to get loose, but stuck. That's what us Tucks are, Winnie. We ain't part of the wheel anymore." ~ Natalie Babbitt
12. "Life always seems to have worries, even if you own a big and beautiful house on the best street in town." ~ Natalie Babbitt
13. "Here, child, said Mae hastily Hide your eyes. Boys? Are you decent? What'd you put on to swim in? I got Winnie Foster in the house? For goodness sake ma said Jesse emerging from the stairwell . You think were going to march around in our altogether with Winnie Foster in the house? And Miles behind him sain we just jumped in with our clothes on too tired to shed them It was true. They stood there side by side with their wet clothes plastered to their skins, little pools of water collecting at their feet." ~ Natalie Babbitt
14. "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
15. "Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams." ~ Natalie Babbitt
16. "...with white dawns and glaring moons, and sunsets smeared with too much color." ~ Natalie Babbitt
17. "It goes on," Tuck repeated, "to the ocean. But this rowboat now, it's stuck. If we didn't move it out ourself, it would stay here forever, trying to get loose, but stuck. That's what us Tucks are, Winnie. Stuck so's we can't move on. We ain't part of the wheel no more. Dropped off, Winnie. Left behind. And everywhere around us, things is moving and growing and changing. You, for instance. A child now, but someday a woman. And after that, moving on to make room for the new children." ~ Natalie Babbitt
18. "When the world you're used to, that same old world you thought you knew so well, turns itself suddenly upside down, what can you do? Everything comes tumbling off the shelves of your expectations; nothing fits anymore." ~ Natalie Babbitt
19. "They've really begun the war," he said to himself. "And all over a word in a dictionary, the ninnies!" ~ Natalie Babbitt
20. "She discovered the wings she never knew she had." ~ Natalie Babbitt
21. "He wasn't crazy. How could he be? He was just -- amazing. But she was struck dumb. All she could do was stare at him." ~ Natalie Babbitt
22. "Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes." ~ Natalie Babbitt
23. "Like all magnificent things, it's very simple." ~ Natalie Babbitt
24. "And suddenly, she longed for a thunderstorm." ~ Natalie Babbitt
25. "Nothing ever seems interesting when it belongs to you - only when it doesn't." ~ Natalie Babbitt
26. "How old are you, anyway?' she asked, squinting at him.There was a pause. At last he said, 'Why do you want to know?'I just wondered,' said Winnie.All right. I'm one hundred and four years old,' he told her solemnly.No, I mean really,' she persisted.Well then.' he said, 'if you must know, I'm seventeen.'Seventeen?'That's right.'Oh,' said Winnie hopelessly. 'Seventeen. That's old.'You have no idea,' he agreed with a nod." ~ Natalie Babbitt
27. "Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life[Angus Tuck]" ~ Natalie Babbitt
28. "The ownership of land is an odd thing when you come to think of it. How deep, after all, can it go? If a person owns a piece of land, does he own it all the way down, in ever narrowing dimensions, till it meets all other pieces at the center of the earth? Or does ownership consist only of a thin crust under which the friendly worms have never heard of trespassing?" ~ Natalie Babbitt
29. "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
30. "No connection, you would agree. But things can come together in strange ways. The wood was at the center, the hub of the wheel. All wheels must have a hub. A ferris wheel has one, as the sun is the hub of the wheeling calendar. Fixed points they are, and best left undisturbed, for without them, nothing holds together. But sometimes people find this out too late." ~ Natalie Babbitt

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