109 Quotes by Natalie Babbitt


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    Waktulah satu-satunya yang kita miliki dalam jumlah yang banyak.

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    For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn’t exist.

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    People got to do something useful if they’re going to take up space in the world.

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    The only thing I would want to say is that storytelling is ancient; it’s something that everybody does. Kids mustn’t be in awe of it. Reading should be a joy – fun, fun, fun – not a responsibility, not something you do because society demands it, but something you do because it’s a pleasure.

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    You got to take what comes. We just go along, like everybody else, one day at a time.

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    She had wanted to cough as soon as it occurred to her that she mustn’t, and she passed a long hour trying to swallow away the tickle that perversely constricted her throat.

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    Still-there’s no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don’t bring changes.

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