Cassie Beasley > Quotes

“You never need an invitation to go home.”
― Cassie Beasley, Circus Mirandus

“Just because a magic is small doesn't mean it is unimportant. Even the smallest magics can grow." -The Lightbender”
― Cassie Beasley, Circus Mirandus

“Because when you try too hard to hold on to something, you break it...Sometimes, we need to let go so that other people can have their chance at the magic.”
― Cassie Beasley, Circus Mirandus

“[I]t was a ridiculous, amazing thing to do, and once in a while, it's good to be ridiculous and amazing.”
― Cassie Beasley, Circus Mirandus

“I won't tell you that you shouldn't have done it. Because it was a ridiculous, amazing thing to do, and once in a while, it's good to be ridiculous and amazing." -Grandpa Ephraim”
― Cassie Beasley, Circus Mirandus

“The Lightbender: Micah, what do you think magic is?
Micah: I guess it's what's inside of people like you. The parts of you that are too big to keep just to yourself.”
― Cassie Beasley, Circus Mirandus

“Even when your whole world was off balance, you still woke up in the morning to find there were a hundred perfectly ordinary things to do.”
― Cassie Beasley, Circus Mirandus

“Telling another person that they have changed you for the better is no small matter, and Ephraim knew it.”
― Cassie Beasley, Circus Mirandus

“Sometimes, we need to let go so that other people can have their chance at magic" -Grandpa Ephraim”
― Cassie Beasley, Circus Mirandus

“Even the smallest magics can grow.”
― Cassie Beasley, Circus Mirandus

“[B]eing very smart must also make you just a little bit crazy.”
― Cassie Beasley, Circus Mirandus

“The war had ended all at once and very calmly. It was as if, between one moment and the next, all the mothers of all the soldiers in the world had checked their clocks and realized that their children had been out playing for too long. The mothers set aside their laundry or their piecrusts or their welding torches, and they stepped out their front doors.

"Davey!" they called. "Klaus! Pierre! It's time to wash up for supper."

The soldiers shook hands with one another and wished one another well. Then they raced back to their mothers, or to their wives and sons.”
― Cassie Beasley, Circus Mirandus

“It's important, when you see magic, to recognize it. You don't often get a second chance.”
― Cassie Beasley, Circus Mirandus

“If things have always come easily to you, you don't know how to deal with trouble when it finally catches up.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“Grandpa Ephraim was always saying things that sounded so important Micah wanted to wrap them up in boxes and keep them forever.”
― Cassie Beasley, Circus Mirandus

“Just because a magic is small doesn't mean it is unimportant.”
― Cassie Beasley, Circus Mirandus

“Because when you try to hard to hold on to something, you break it." -Grandpa Ephraim”
― Cassie Beasley, Circus Mirandus

“Sometimes,” she said in a measured voice, “people would rather give you money than other, harder things.” “Like what?” “Like their time. Don’t go asking for money when what you want is something more valuable, Blue.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“Sometimes being afraid of losing is worse than actually losing. And when it gets that bad, you've got to do something different. Even if it's a little crazy.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“Selfish children these days,” she muttered around a beakful of cottony stuffing. “Won’t even share a few delicious tidbits with the messenger. I blame television.” Micah”
― Cassie Beasley, Circus Mirandus

“A partial truth. The worst kind of lie because it slides so smoothly down the gullet.
Here is what actually happened that night. Swallow with care. You'll find my version has had none of its sharp edges removed...”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“Some people need help, but they don't need your help, Lily. At least not directly. They need help from their parents or their teachers or, heaven forbid, the authorities. When you see someone robbing a 7-Eleven, you call the police, you don't dash in yourself.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“My mom always says the choice you're making right now is the only one that matters.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“Sometimes," she said in a measured voice, "people would rather give you money than other, harder things."

"Like what?"

"Like their time, Don't go asking for money when what you want is something more valuable, Blue.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“You never need a ticket to go home.”
― Cassie Beasley, Circus Mirandus

“I can grow another. And when I do, I'll be proud of what it represents. My own hard work and skill. Not some talent spun out of the swamp by a power I don't properly understand.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“Maybe it means that some part of him realized he was going in the wrong direction, and he loved you enough to leave you behind.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“Sometimes apologies work better after you've given people time and space to grow.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“Compared to everything else going on in the house, Howard drinking chocolate milk in the shower almost seemed ordinary.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“No fighting while your living with me."

"I'm not stupid," said Blue

"I'm not worried about your brains, honey, I'm worried about your health. We don't go asking for more trouble in this family.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue