"Tuck Everlasting" Quotes
A young girl discovers a family who has accidentally achieved immortality, and must decide whether to keep their secret or reveal it to the world.
fantasy | 148 pages | Published in 1975
Quotes
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.
Everything's a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping. The frogs is part of it, and the bugs, and the fish, and the wood thrush, too. And people.
The wheel keeps turning, that's all.
Good manners, she had learned, were the glue that held the world together.
Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes. We just go along, like everybody else, one day at a time.
Everything had to die, she thought, to make room for new things.
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 wheel of life turns, and ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the age that gave it birth comes again.
That's what's wrong with the world, Mrs. Foster. People spend all their time making nice things and then other people come along and break them.
