Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting (1975)

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

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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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