Natalie Babbitt
7 quotes
Biography
"Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live."
"Like all magnificent things, it's very simple."
"dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life."
"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."
"The shriek cut thinly though the drizzling dimness, holding for a long moment. At last it broadened and dropped to the old."
"Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy."
"You've got nothing that lasts, you know. That's not the first town that ever stood there. There was one before that, and one before that, and one before that one, on back for 900 years. But this tree has stood here all along. What do you make of that, boy?"