Tuck — Everlasting Play Script

(Quietly.) No. You just have to be afraid of everything . Because nothing ever ends. And that, my boy, is the longest fear of all.

(A small, sad smile.) Winnie Foster. You know what that water does?

Drink it, Winnie. Just a sip. Then you’ll be like us. You’ll never have to say goodbye to anyone ever again. tuck everlasting play script

It stops you from dying.

Always is a very long time, Jesse.

A small clearing in the woods near Treegap. A large ash tree with a spring bubbling at its roots. Late afternoon light.

(Shakes his head slowly.) No. It stops you from living . The way a stone lives. The way a wheel on a broken wagon lives—spinning in place, going nowhere, watching everything else rot and change around it. (Quietly

(She looks at the bottle, then at Angus.) But if I drink it… I’ll never see the first wrinkle on my mother’s hand. Or watch my father’s hair turn gray. Or know what it feels like to be old, and tired, and ready.