Natalie Babbitt

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

— Natalie Babbitt

“He knows you?” said Mae, her frown deepening. “But you didn’t call out to him, child. Why not?” “I was too scared…

— Natalie Babbitt

“He wasn't crazy. How could he be? He was just -- amazing. But she was struck dumb. All she could do was…

— Natalie Babbitt

My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in…

— Natalie Babbitt

Do not fear death... only the unlived life. You don't have to live forever; You just have to live.

— Natalie Babbitt

“You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like…

— Natalie Babbitt

“I’m not exactly sure what I’d do, you know, but something interesting—something that’s all mine. Something that would make some kind of…

— Natalie Babbitt

“Miles said softly, “Ma. We’ll get you out right away.” “Sure, Ma,” said Jesse. “Don’t worry about me none,” said Mae in…

— Natalie Babbitt

But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave…

— Natalie Babbitt

“There’s a pretty good old rowboat. I’ll take you out for a row after supper.” “No, I will,” said Jesse. “Let me…

— 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.

— Natalie Babbitt

Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.

— Natalie Babbitt

“...with white dawns and glaring moons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.”

— Natalie Babbitt

in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance…

— Natalie Babbitt

Time is like a wheel. Turning and turning - never stopping. And the woods are the center; the hub of the wheel.…

— Natalie Babbitt

The sea can swallow ships, and it can spit out whales like watermelon seeds. It will take what it wants, and it…

— Natalie Babbitt

“It goes on,” Tuck repeated, “to the ocean. But this rowboat now, it’s stuck. If we didn’t move it out ourself, it…

— Natalie Babbitt

“[B]elieving, was her own true, promising friend once more.”

— Natalie Babbitt

The only thing I would want to say is that storytelling is ancient; it's something that everybody does. Kids mustn't be in…

— Natalie Babbitt

“There’s a pretty good old rowboat. I’ll take you out for a row after supper.” “No, I will,” said Jesse. “Let me…

— Natalie Babbitt

“How old are you, anyway?' she asked, squinting at him. There was a pause. At last he said, 'Why do you want…

— Natalie Babbitt

“The ownership of land is an odd thing when you come to think of it. How deep, after all, can it go?…

— Natalie Babbitt

“When the world you're used to, that same old world you thought you knew so well, turns itself suddenly upside down, what…

— Natalie Babbitt

“Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to live.”

— Natalie Babbitt

“It was one thing to talk about being by yourself, doing important things, but quite another when the opportunity arose. The characters…

— Natalie Babbitt