quotes by Natalie Babbitt

"Like all magnificent things, it's very simple."
— Natalie Babbitt

"But it's enough, just having this day. It's the knowing there's something different, something special up there waiting. It's the knowing you could choose to change your days--climb up there and throw yourself right down the throat of the only and last and greatest terrible secret in the world. Except you don't climb up."
— Natalie Babbitt (Kneeknock Rise)

""Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't."---Tuck Everlasting"
— Natalie Babbitt

""They've really begun the war," he said to himself. "And all over a word in a dictionary, the ninnies!""
— Natalie Babbitt (The Search for Delicious)