Tuck Everlasting

Jesse:
I'm going to be 17 forever!

Jesse:
Spend forever with me, Winnie?

Young Pastor:
You speak blasphemy, sir.

Man in the Yellow Suit:
Fluently.

Angus Tuck:
If there's one thing I've learned about people, many will do anything, anything not to die. And they'll do anything to keep from living their life.

Angus Tuck:
What we Tucks have you can't call it living. We just... are. We're like rocks, stuck at the side of a stream.

Angus Tuck:
Don't be afraid of death, Winnie. Be afraid of the unlived life.

Miles:
Immortality isn't everything the preachers rack it up to be.

Jesse:
I will love you until the day I die!

Jesse:
I'm gonna be 17 until the end of the world!

Narrator:
Time passes slowly for some. An hour can seem an eternity. For others, years go by as in the blink of an eye. For Jesse Tuck, time didn't exist.

Jesse:
You just don't want me to have what you lost!

Narrator:
Tuck said it to Winnie the summer she turned 15: Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to live. And she did.

Jesse:
How am I supposed to take you home when I can't make my feet move from this spot. If I could die tomorrow I would, just so I could spend one more night with you.

Mrs. Foster:
Every time I look at you, you're different. I'm losing you, too.

Winnie:
I'm right here.

Mrs. Foster:
Forgive me, Winnie. I just wanted to keep you my little girl forever.

Winnie:
I can't swim.

Jesse:
You're joshing me!

Winnie:
I wish I were.

Jesse:
So, you're afraid you'll drown right? Swallow too much water, sink to the bottom and die!

Winnie:
Thank you for putting it so vividly, and yes, considering I'd sink like a rock, drowning is a fair concern!

Jesse:
Well, I guess I'm just gonna have to enjoy this all by myself.

Winnie:
I want a drink first.

Jesse:
No. You can't drink that water. It's poison.

Winnie:
I saw you drinking from it.

Jesse:
Well now I'm feeling sick.

Mr. Foster:
Just... what is your game, sir?

Man in the Yellow Suit:
What is my game? You detect in me a playful mood?

Jesse:
I'm going to see the whole world, every speck of it. Heck, I may even find some new continents or something!

Winnie:
Jesse don't let go!

Jesse:
It's ok, it's ok. There's no chance of that Winnie Foster. I'll never let you go.

Mrs. Foster:
I don't know everyone nor do I want to.

Narrator:
Winnie Foster was to be sent 500 miles away to be educated, but what her parents didnt understand was that she only wanted to step outside her fence... so she did. What in these quiet woods should be so forbidden? Winnie had always sensed a mystey waiting for her there.

Jesse:
You shouldnt be in these parts of the woods. It's best you turn around and go home.

Jesse:
Well go on now get!

Winnie:
Excuse me, but I own these woods and I'll go on an get when I want to.

Miles:
The water tasted like... heaven. It floated over your tongue like a cloud.

Winnie:
I don't wanna die, is that wrong?

Angus Tuck:
No. It's part of being human.

Miles:
We all had a drink. Except for the cat, and that's important. The water tasted like... heaven. It floated over your tongue like a cloud. Tuck carved a T in the trunk and we moved on west to find a place to settle down. We put up a house for Mae and Tuck and a little shed for Jesse and me. That was the first time we figured there was something... peculiar. Jesse fell thirty feet and landed on is neck. He was up on his feet before Mae could work up a good cry. Didn't hurt him a bit, no broken bones... nothing. But that's not all... not by a long shot. Things began to happen. Some brush-poppers mistook Mae's horse for a deer. Thing is, the bullets didn't kill him. Barely even left a mark. Then Tuck got bitten by a rattlesnake, and you know what... he didn't die. But the cat did, of old age. And Miles got married. Tuck figured it early on. It was the spring. We all drank from it, even the horse. It had to be... the source of our changelessness. I begged her to come back... to me and find the spring and drink from it. The children, too. It was our only hope... to be together. She'd made up her mind that I'd... sold my soul to the devil. And she left me. She took my babies with her. Everyone... pulled away after that. There was talk of witchcraft... and... black magic. I went lookin' for wars to fight... and I saw brave men die at Vera Cruz. And then Gettysburg. Thousands of them in the blink of an eye. But not me. I couldn't die. Like Little Anna. The influenza took her before she was fifteen. And Bo. He'd be almost eighty now if he were still alive. And my sweet... my sweet young bride. She died in an insane asylum. Old and alone. But I'm still here... I'm still here.

Mae Tuck:
[to Miles] You're as cozy as barbed wire.