Quotations (12)

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“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.”
“And suddenly, she longed for a thunderstorm.”
“Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.”
“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…
“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
“Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.”
"What we have, us Tucks, it's not living. We just are. Like rocks on the side of a mountain." -Tuck Everlasting
"Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of unlived life, you don't have to live forever, you just have to live!"
radhakrishnan
"It's a wheel, Winnie. 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…
So, I just read this book again to quote it in an essay I am writing and I found two quotations that I liked. 'Winnie thought about this peril to the frogs, and sighed. "It'd be nice," she said, "if nothing ever had to die." "Well,…
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…
The road that led to Treegap had been trod out long before by a herd of cows who were, to say the least, relaxed. It wandered along in curves and easy angles, swayed off and up in a pleasant tangent to the top of a small hill, ambled down…