Tumble & Blue Quotes

“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

“Sometimes apologies work better after you've given people time and space to grow.”
― 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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“It wasn't just that she didn't think alligators hid in the swamp waiting to jinx people. It was that the idea of a world where a person could literally be cursed, no matter what he did or how hard he tried, offended every last bit of her.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“...the RV was fire engine red. If that didn't show feistiness, she didn't know what did.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“I don't think you're supposed to call him Mr. Goat" Tumble's dad replied "I think it's just Goat. Like Cher! But less well know."

"I refuse to call a grown man Goat."

"Well, I'm going to call home Goat," said Tumble. " He told me to."
The name wasn't exactly classy like Tumble or Maximal Star, but it showed an individual nature.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“Does this kind of thing happen a lot around here? Deer just tackling people for no good reason?"

"I don't think so." Blue pressed at the gaping edges of his wound. He winced. " I think I'm just lucky.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“Granny Eve had kindly not told the nurse that the UFO in question was a tiddlywink.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“And Tumble would roll her eyes, because honestly, her dad need some new jokes.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“Her parents had taken her life and given it a good hard shake, but that didn't mean Tumble was going to fall to pieces. Heroing was an everyday business after all.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“My toenails are fine," Blue said.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“This girl was weird even by Montgomery standards”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“⭐Smart people, thought Blue, stay away when you tell them you're cursed. Normal people think you've lost your marbles.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“Blue didn't know what her fate was, so it couldn't have been spectacularly good or bad. But she was spectacularly annoying.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“Tumble grinned at him as if to say she ate unusual for breakfast.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“Does this kind of thing happen a lot around here? Deer just tackling people for no good reason?"

"I don't think so." He winced. "I think I'm just lucky.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“....Blue frowned at the scene before them. Someone was behind an azalea bush, pointing the beam of a flashlight up at a dark figure on the roof of the house. Something like confetti was drifting through the air as the figure spun in circles and waved its arms.

" What is this place?"

"It's the Okra Lane Home for Seniors "

"Somebody's twirling around on the roof."

"Yes." Granny Eve sighed. "That's your great-grand-mother.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“...She plopped down onto the shag carpet beside Blue and tried hard not to burp.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“I should have told you the other half of the story."

There's more? thought Tumble. How much stranger could the Montgomerys get?”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“Your normal," he said weakly.

Tumble pistoned his hand up and down. "I prefer," she said, "to think of myself as potentially extraordinary.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“All heroes probably had doubts sometimes, she told herself. If she ever met Maximal Star, she would mention that he ought to write about the parts in between the daring rescues. The parts where you feel like a big time faker and failure.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“⭐Tumble was working herself into a state over the wrongness and insanity of her whole life, throwing chunks of rotten carpet at the overflowing bucket with increasing rage,”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue