5C+Lang.+Arts-+Tuck

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__Prologue__
"...things can come together in strange ways. The wood was at the center, the hub of the wheel. All wheels must have a hub. A Ferris wheel has one, as the sun is the hub of the wheeling calendar. Fixed points they are, and best left undisturbed, for without them, nothing holds together. But sometimes people find this out too late."

__Chapter 1__
"In the end, however, it was the cows who were responsible for the wood's isolation, and the cows, through some wisdom they were not wise enough to know that they possessed, were very wise indeed. If they had made their road through the wood instead of around it then the people would have followed the road. The people would have noticed the giant ash tree at the center of the wood, and then, in time, they'd have noticed the little spring bubbling up among its roots in spite of the pebbles piled there to conceal it. And that would have been a disaster so immense that this weary old earth, owned or not to its fiery core, would have trembled on its axis like a beetle on a pin."

__Chapter 2,3,4__
"And so, at dawn, ...." "At noon of that same day..." "At sunset of that same long day..."

Chapter 5
"For the wood was full of light, entirely different from the light she was used to. It was green and amber and alive, quivering in splotches on the padded trunks. There were little flowers she did not recognize, white and palest blue; and endless, tangled vines; and here and there a fallen log, half rotted but soft with patches of sweet green-velvet moss."

**Chapter 6**
"...though her heart was pounding and her backbone felt like a pipe full of cold running water, her head was fiercely calm." "Only then did it come to Winnie that she ought to shout, wave her arms, do //something//."

Chapter 7
"Pa thinks it's something left over from-well, from some other plan for the way the world should be," said Jesse. 'Some plan that didn't work out too good...'"

Chapter 8
"It was good. So good, in fact, that through it all, not one of them noticed that the man they passed on the road, the man in the yellow suit, had crept up to the bushes by the stream and heard it all, the whole fantastic story. Nor did they noticed that he was following now, beside the road far behind, his mouth, about the thin, gray beard, turned ever so slightly toward a smile."

Chapter 9
"The pastures, fields, and scrubby groves they crossed were vigorous with bees, and crickets lept before them as if each step released a spring and flung them up like pebbles. But everything else was motionless, dry as a biscuit, on the brink of burning, hoarding final reservoirs of sap, trying to hold out till the rain returned, and Queen Ann's lace lay dusty on the surface of the meadows like foam on a painted sea."

__Chapter 10__
"And then it sometimes comes over me and I wonder why it happened to //us//."

__Chapter 11__
"I got a feeling this whole thing is going to come apart like wet bread." "I never thought we'd come to the place where we'd be scaring children."

__Chapter 12__
"We ain't part of the wheel no more."

__Chapter 13__
"I know where they've taken the little girl."

Chapter 14
"She felt cared for and- confused."

__Chapter 15__
"So: I want the wood and you want the child. It's a trade. A simple, clear-cut trade."

__Chapter 16__
"'Course, we got gallows of our own, if we ever need it."

Chapter 17
"Her name was Anna. Lord, how sweet she was, that child! It's queer to think she'd be close to eighty now, if she's even still alive. And my son-he'd be eighty-two.'"

Chapter 18
"Perhaps they //were// crazy but they weren't criminals. She loved them. They belonged to her."

Chapters 19 & 20
“'Ignorant people like you should never have this opportunity. It should be kept for…certain others. And for me.'” “But Tuck was not looking back at her. Instead, he was gazing at the body on the ground, leaning forward slightly, his brow drown down, his mouth open a little. It was as if he were entranced and-yes, envious-like a starving man looking through a window at a banquet.”

Chapters 21 & 22
"Things had happened to her that were her's alone, and had nothing to do with them. It was the first time. And no amount of telling about it could help them understand or share what she felt." "At midnight she would make a difference in the world."

Chapter 23
"Beneath her excitement, she was thick with guilt." "Winnie had her own strong sense of rightness." "Thinking of Tuck and Mae, of Miles and Jesse, her heart softened."

Chapter 24
"Another roll of thunder sounded. The storm was moving nearer." "Then- a flash of lightning and, soon after, a crack of thunder."

Chapter 25 & Epilogue
"...there was a feeling that the year had begun its downward arc, that the wheel was turning again, slowly now, but soon to go faster... ." "Had to bulldoze her all out."