Natalie Babbitt Quotes
Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.
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.
Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.
It'd be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that's not all worn out from being called so much.
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.
Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.
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.
my mother always found me out. Always. She's been dead for thirty-five years, but I have this feeling that even now she's watching.
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
...with white dawns and glaring moons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.
The shriek cut thinly though the drizzling dimness, holding for a long moment. At last it broadened and dropped to the old.
I was having that dream again, the good one where we're all in heaven and never heard of Treegap.
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.