Natalie babbitt

“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.”  [Tuck Everlasting]

“It’d be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that’s not all worn out from being called too much.”  [Tuck Everlasting]

"Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes. We go along, like everybody else, one day at a time." [Tuck Everlasting]

“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?” [Tuck Everlasting]

“The sea can swallow ships, and it can spit out whales upon the beach like watermelon seeds. It will take what it wants, and it will keep what it has taken, and you may not take away from it what it does not wish to give.”  [The Eyes of Amaryllis]

“Things just are, and fussing don’t bring changes.”  [Tuck Everlasting]