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Tuck Everlasting QUOTES

Tuck Everlasting QUOTES

1 " Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live. "

― Natalie Babbitt , Tuck Everlasting

2 " 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 , Tuck Everlasting

3 " dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life. "

― Natalie Babbitt , Tuck Everlasting

4 " Like all magnificent things, it's very simple. "

― Natalie Babbitt , Tuck Everlasting

5 " You Don't have to live forever you just have to live. "

― Natalie Babbitt , Tuck Everlasting

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

― Natalie Babbitt , Tuck Everlasting

7 " ...with white dawns and glaring moons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. "

― Natalie Babbitt , Tuck Everlasting

8 " 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 , Tuck Everlasting

9 " The first week of August hangs at the very top of 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. "

― Natalie Babbitt , Tuck Everlasting

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

― Natalie Babbitt , Tuck Everlasting

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 thrush, too. And people. But never the same ones. Always coming in new, always growing and changing, and always moving on. That's the way it's supposed to be. That's the way it is. "

― Natalie Babbitt , Tuck Everlasting

12 " 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 , Tuck Everlasting

13 " And suddenly, she longed for a thunderstorm. "

― Natalie Babbitt , Tuck Everlasting

14 " Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life "

― Natalie Babbitt , Tuck Everlasting

15 " 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 , Tuck Everlasting

16 " 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 , Tuck Everlasting

17 " 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 , Tuck Everlasting

18 " 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 , Tuck Everlasting

19 " 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 , Tuck Everlasting

20 " You dont have to live forever just live. "

― Natalie Babbitt , Tuck Everlasting