Here Come the Littles (1985)

Donavan Freberg: Tom Little

Quotes 

• Tom Little : [referring to Augustus]  His voice gives me the creeps; I wonder what he looks like.

  Lucy Little : He's probably 20 feet tall, with beady eyes and long, pointy fangs for teeth!

  Tom Little : [sarcastically]  You're real fun to be with, Lucy.

• Lucy Little : [hugging/kissing Tom with relief, after he escapes being hurt while attempting to extract a piece of cheese from a mousetrap]  Oh, you could have gotten yourself killed! I'm very angry at you, Thomas Little!

  Tom Little : You're angry at me, and you're hugging and kissing me? I'll never understand girls!

• Lucy Little : Watch it! Don't fall in!

  Tom Little : I never fall; I've got perfect balance!

  [yells as he loses his balance and fails into Henry's suitcase, which he had been sitting on the edge of] 

  Lucy Little : Tom!

  Tom Little : Get me out of here!

  Lucy Little : [sarcastically]  Who could that be calling? It couldn't be my brother, he's got perfect balance!

  Tom Little : Will you stop clowning around and give me a hand?

• Dinky Little : [looking around Augustus' attic for Tom, Lucy and Grandpa]  Kids? M-Mr. Little?

  Tom Little , Lucy Little : [emerging from a trapdoor]  Hi, Dinky!

  Dinky Little : [jumps back, yells out with fright, then calms down]  Hi, kids. I was just exploring this old place. You know how Daredevil Dinky loves adventure!

  Dinky Little : [adjusts his scarf, which gets caught on a nail, cries out]  Aaah! Something's grabbing me!

  Lucy Little : [dislodging Dinky's scarf]  It's just this ferocious nail.

• Lucy Little : [crying, thinking Tom has been swallowed by a cat]  Oh, Tom, what'll I do without you? You're the best brother a girl ever had! Kind and good and brave...

  Tom Little : [emerging suddenly from atop the cat's back]  And smart!

  Lucy Little : Tom!

  [hugs Tom with relief as he climbs down and runs to her] 

  Lucy Little : And stupid for letting us think you were swallowed!

• Tom Little , Lucy Little : [spotting Grandpa landing in Augustus' house, after plunging down the chimney]  Grandpa!

  Grandpa Little : [hugging Tom and Lucy]  Thank goodness you're OK!

  Lucy Little : Yes, but Mom and Dad won't be unless we can get home in time to warn them.

  Tom Little : In two days, Augustus is gonna send bulldozers to tear down Henry's house.

  Grandpa Little : You are a heartless, vicious old man, Augustus!

  Lucy Little : Not only that, but he also slurps his soup.

• Dinky Little : [seeing his glider being torn to pieces by a cat]  My glider!

  Tom Little : A cat!

  Lucy Little : How are we gonna get home in time now?

  Tom Little : I know! Dinky can tame the cat, and we can ride home on his back!

  Dinky Little : [shocked by the suggestion]  Huh?

  Tom Little : Didn't you once tell me you were a lion tamer?

  Dinky Little : Of course. The greatest! But I can't tame that cat; I need special equipment that I don't happen to have.

  Grandpa Little : [disgusted]  Such as courage.

• Lucy Little : This is fun, like a potato sack race.

  Tom Little : If Augustus sees us, we'll be mashed potatoes!