Natalie Babbitt Quotes About Summer

• 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.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Summer, August, Years

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

• 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 weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Summer, Spring, Sunset

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

• 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.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Summer, Fate, Long Ago

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

• the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Summer, Dog, Sorry

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