Quotes by Natalie Babbitt

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

“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.”

“dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.”

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

“Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.”

“You Don't have to live forever you just have to live.”

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

“...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.”

“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 on...”

“Like all magnificent things, its very simple.”

“Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, To...”

“You've got nothing that lasts, you know. That's not the first town that ever stood there. There was one before that, and one before that, and one before that one, on back for 900 years. But this tr...”

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

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

“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...”