Tuck Everlasting

Who said:

"If I knowed how to climb back on the wheel, I'd do it in a minute. You can't having living without dying. So you can't call it living what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road."

• Winnie

• Miles

• Tuck

• The man in the yellow suit

Who said:

"We been alone so long. I guess we don't know how to do with visitors. But still and all, it's a good feeling, you being here with us. I wish you was...ours."

• Mae

• Tuck

• Winnie's grandmother

• Miles

Who said:

"Why, heck, Winnie, life's to enjoy yourself, isn't it? What else is it good for? That's what I say. And you and me, we could have a good time that never, never stopped. Wouldn't that be something?"

• Miles

• Tuck

• Winnie's mother

• Jesse

Who said:

"Dreadful thing, kidnapping. Isn't it fortunate that I was a witness! Why, without me, you might never have heard a word. They're rough country people, the ones who took her. There's just no telling what illiterates like that might do."

• Man in the yellow suit

• The constable

• Winnie's grandmother

• Tuck

Who said:

"Yep, she got him a good one, all right. He never even come to. So it's an open-and-shut case, since I seen her do it. Eyewitness. No question about it. They'll hang her for sure."

• The man in the yellow suit

• The constable

• Winnie's father

• Tuck

Who said:

"See? That's just what I mean. It's like that every minute. If I had a sister or a brother, there'd be someone else for them to watch. But, as it is, there's only me. I'm tired of being looked at all the time. I want to be by myself for a change."

• Mae

• Tuck

• Anna

• Winnie

Who said:

"life is like a wheel"

• The man in the yellow suit

• Tuck

• Miles

• The constable

Why don't the Tucks age?

• They carved a T in the ash tree

• The pond is magical

• The ate poison toadstools

• They drank water from a spring in the wood

Tuck Everlasting takes place in

• The early summer in 1850

• The late winter 1880

• The first week of August in 1880

• The middle of spring in 1850

What setting is being described:

"a square and solid cottage with a touch-me-not appearance, surrounded by grass cut painfully to the quick and enclosed by a capable iron fence some four feet high which clearly said, "Move on - we don't want you here.""

• The Foster's house

• The Tuck's house

• The jailhouse