Citas de Natalie Babbitt

• No temas a la muerte; teme a una vida no vivida. No tienes que vivir para siempre, sólo tienes que vivir.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Inspiración, Vida, Muerte

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• La primera semana de agosto se sitúa en la cima del verano, en la cima del año, como el asiento más alto de una noria cuando hace una pausa en su giro. Las semanas anteriores son sólo un ascenso desde la templada primavera, y las siguientes un descenso hacia el frío del otoño, pero la primera semana de agosto es inmóvil y calurosa. También es curiosamente silenciosa, con amaneceres en blanco y mediodías deslumbrantes, y atardeceres embadurnados de demasiado color.

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  Summer, Spring, Sunset

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.3, Macmillan

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

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  Lonely, Reading, Bored

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

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  Long, Matter, Everlasting

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.54, Macmillan

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• The sea can swallow ships, and it can spit out whales like watermelon seeds. It will take what it wants, and it will keep what it has taken, and you may not take away from it what it does not wish to give.

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  Ocean, Taken, Whales

  Natalie Babbitt (2010). “The Eyes of the Amaryllis”, p.5, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Summer, August, Years

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.3, Macmillan

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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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  Fall, Trying, Use

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.55, Macmillan

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

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  Miedo a la muerte

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

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  Dream, Branches, Facts

  Natalie Babbitt (2010). “Kneeknock Rise”, p.8, Macmillan

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• 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 thing, that's the blessing.

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  Blessing, Dying, Pieces

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.63, Macmillan

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

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  Nice, Names, Worn

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.15, Macmillan

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• in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do in ordinary life. It's amazing that those twenty-six little marks of the alphabet can arrange themselves on the pages of a book and accomplish all that. Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.

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  Solitario, Libro, Lectura

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• 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 strange and breathless time when accident, or fate, bring lives together. When people are led to do things, they've never done before. On this summersday, not so very long ago, the wheel set lives in motion in mysterious ways.

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  Summer, Fate, Long Ago

  "Tuck Everlasting". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't.

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  Amor, Vida, Relación

  Natalie Babbitt (2010). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.7, Macmillan

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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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  Fun, Reading, Kids

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• You dont have to live forever just live.

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  Forever, Just Live, Live Forever

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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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  Eternity, Hours, Enough

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• mi madre siempre me descubría. Siempre. Lleva muerta treinta y cinco años, pero tengo la sensación de que incluso ahora me observa.

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  Mother, Years, Feelings

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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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  Espacio, Gente, Mundo

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.86, Macmillan

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• Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

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  Philosophy, Simple, Magnificent

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.97, Macmillan

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• I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.

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  Husband, Wonderful, Wonderful Husband

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• Living's heavy work, but off to one side the way we are, it's useless, too. It don't make sense. If I knowed how to climb back on the wheel, I'd do it in a minute. 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.

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  Rocks, Dying, Useless

  "Tuck Everlasting". Book by Natalie Babbitt, www.npr.org. 1975.

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• Justo después de graduarme, me casé con Samuel Fisher Babbitt, un administrador académico. Pasé los diez años siguientes en Connecticut, Tennessee y Washington, D.C., criando a nuestros hijos, Christopher, Tom y Lucy.

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  Children, Years, Tennessee

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• la primera semana de agosto es inmóvil y calurosa. También es curiosamente silenciosa, con amaneceres blancos y mediodías deslumbrantes, y atardeceres manchados de demasiado color. A menudo por la noche hay relámpagos, pero tiemblan solos. No hay truenos, ni lluvia que alivie. Son días extraños y sin aliento, los días del perro, en los que la gente se ve inducida a hacer cosas de las que seguramente se arrepentirá.

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  Summer, Dog, Sorry

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• I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.

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  Reading, Drawing, Ohio

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