Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)

by T.J. Klune

I’m an adult who does adult things, like taxes and laundry and being sad for no reason.”

“I am going to feed him so many grapes they come out his butt,”

The children reached an agreement, Sal making them all put their hands in the middle. David was last, his white paw on top. That is, until Lucy pulled his hand out from near the bottom and slapped his on top of David’s. They stared at each other, Lucy looking smug. Arthur was about to warn Lucy to play fair, but then David did something unexpected. He lifted his other hand, extended a single claw, and then pressed it gently against Lucy’s nose, dimpling his skin. “Boop.”

“You better not throw anything away,” Lucy warned. “If you do, there is nowhere on this earth you could hide that I wouldn’t find you.” “That threat worked better on me when I didn’t know you liked footie pajamas,” Linus said. “That’s because they have a flap for my butt cheeks,” Lucy said. “Humanity’s finest invention, next to music. If I grow up and decide to enslave the human race, I’ll make footie pajamas mandatory for everyone.”

it’s okay to not be okay, so long as it doesn’t become all we know.”

Why did the new egg feel so good? Because he just got laid!”