Quotes from Tricia Springstubb

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.

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.

Perhaps appearances deceive, and she is stronger than she looks.

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.

Forward! That is the way of our cosmos. The future is urgent, irresistible, and majestic.

Because you never know when goodness is going to come showering down. Sometimes, it even comes down in buckets.

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.

When you're always focused on the big cosmic pictures, you can miss the earthly details -Clem

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

Kindness is the truest thing there is -Sister Rosa

I don't think you can ever call kindness a mistake -Mr. Sabatini

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.

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.

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.

In this life, so many things can twang your heart.

There are days that should never be. And then, there are days that, oh, if only they could go on forever!

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.

When Mama got a new baby, Phoebe got a new digger.