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The toad is a wild toad that Winnie sees several times on the other side of her cottage's fence. She talks to the toad and tells it about her desire to run away, and she decides to venture into the wood because she's afraid that the toad will laugh at her for losing her nerve. Several weeks after Winnie's adventure, she rescues the toad from a dog that's harassing it and pours the water from Jesse over it, making the toad immortal. In the epilogue, Angus and Mae nearly run the toad over when they come across it sitting in the middle of the road.
The Toad Quotes in Tuck Everlasting
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Chapter Three
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"I want to be by myself for a change." She leaned her forehead against the bars and after a short silence went on in a thoughtful tone. "I'm not exactly sure what I'd do, you know, but something interesting--something that's all mine. Something that would make some kind of difference in the world."
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The Toad Quotes in Tuck Everlasting
The Tuck Everlasting quotes below are all either spoken by The Toad or refer to The Toad. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter Three
Quotes
"I want to be by myself for a change." She leaned her forehead against the bars and after a short silence went on in a thoughtful tone. "I'm not exactly sure what I'd do, you know, but something interesting--something that's all mine. Something that would make some kind of difference in the world."
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