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

- Natalie Babbitt

Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life

- Natalie Babbitt

Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.

- Natalie Babbitt

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 it…

- Natalie Babbitt

Time is like a wheel. Turning and turning - never stopping. And the woods are the center; the hub of the wheel. It began the first week of summer, a …

- Natalie Babbitt

You dont have to live forever just live.

- Natalie Babbitt

But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thi…

- Natalie Babbitt

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.

- Natalie Babbitt

It'd be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that's not all worn out from being called so much.

- Natalie Babbitt