109 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.

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

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

Like all magnificent things, it’s very simple.

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 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 follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.

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