Tricia Springstubb > Quotes

“The daisies and buttercups nodded in the breeze, like skinny-necked old ladies listening to dance music.

What if necessary evil had an opposite? This is what it would be. This unnecessary good.

For the first time in days, Mo smiled.”
― Tricia Springstubb, What Happened on Fox Street

“Being a thinker was a various thing. Sometimes you felt like a turtle, with a nice, private built-in place to shelter. Other times it was like having a bucket stuck on your head, making the world clang and echo and never stop.”
― Tricia Springstubb, What Happened on Fox Street

“Mom's lips puckered, like she'd bitten something rotten. At times like this, Cody could tell that being a grown-up was harder than it looked.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Cody and the Fountain of Happiness

“Dad's talent was giving magic hugs. When you were in the magic middle of one, you magically felt kind toward the whole world. You magically couldn't stay mad at anyone or thing for long.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Cody and the Fountain of Happiness

“Cody loved all animals, big and small. But she had a special, tender place in her heart for ants. They were so serious! They worked so hard! She watched them bubble up out of their tiny ant volcano. They picked up toast crumbs and dragged them inside. A few crawled over her big toe. This was ant for 'Thank you.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Cody and the Fountain of Happiness

“Mama said people who went to the clinic were trying. They deserved respect, and the ones who didn't quit, who couldn't, deserved compassion.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Looking for True

“What if necessary evil had an opposite? This is what it would be. This unnecessary good.”
― Tricia Springstubb, What Happened on Fox Street

“In this life, so many things can twang your heart.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Cody and the Fountain of Happiness

“Words. There was a word for everything that existed. That was so comforting. Once you could name something, you owned it, in a way. You possessed a kind of power over it. Whatever that thing was, it couldn't confuse or scare you, not once you knew its definition.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Looking for True

“Babies and dogs- they had no words. They depended on you to figure out what they needed, then to help them get it.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Looking for True

“Everything was relative, every thing and being flowed into every other thing and being, and there were way more than three dimensions. Everything, even the things that seemed to stay still, was moving.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Every Single Second

“You'd never guess how many Cheerios were in a single box till a toddler dumped them all out.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Looking for True

“I'm convinced most adults don't listen to half of what they say.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Looking for True

“People can knock you down, mister, but it's your own fault if you don't get back up. You stay down, you've got nobody to blame but your own sorry self.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Looking for True

“Wyatt was Cody's big brother. He was a teenager who pretended that Cody drove him crazy. Wyatt was so good at pretending, many people were fooled. But not Cody.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Cody and the Fountain of Happiness

“Gazing into True's troubled eyes, Gladys knew the dog had an emptiness inside, too, a wordless place aching to be filled with light and warmth.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Looking for True

“Kindness is the truest thing there is" -Sister Rosa”
― Tricia Springstubb, Every Single Second

“Forward! That is the way of our cosmos. The future is urgent, irresistible, and majestic.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Every Single Second

“Like an engine. Like an engine that sputtered out, but always started up again. An engine of joy, that's what a dog was.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Looking for True

“Perhaps appearances deceive, and she is stronger than she looks.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Every Single Second

“Because you never know when goodness is going to come showering down. Sometimes, it even comes down in buckets.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Every Single Second

“You couldn't make someone trust. It took time. They had to find their own way to it.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Looking for True

“Bad has a big mouth, that's why it gets all the attention. But don't be fooled, he told them. Good doesn't need to brag. Good knows it's stronger.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Every Single Second

“I don't think you can ever call kindness a mistake" -Mr. Sabatini”
― Tricia Springstubb, Every Single Second

“When you're always focused on the big cosmic pictures, you can miss the earthly details" -Clem”
― Tricia Springstubb, Every Single Second

“When you were little, you forgot stuff. It slid away, like scenery out a car window.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Looking for True

“He was like a tree. The underground part, the roots and rootlets you couldn't see, grew as wide and deep as the above ground part grew tall.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Looking for True

“When Mama got a new baby, Phoebe got a new digger.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Phoebe and Digger

“It's not easy being a saint. Mercy! None of this is easy, Nella. 'Follow your heart!' People always say that. They mean well, I'm sure. But sometimes, we need to overrules our hearts. We need to be brave. We need to be kind because we should, not because it's easy." -Sister Rosa”
― Tricia Springstubb, Every Single Second

“There are days that should never be.
And then, there are days that, oh, if only they could go on forever!”
― Tricia Springstubb, Cody and the Fountain of Happiness