Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)

by T.J. Klune

He let it settle, gave it room to breathe, and though he felt the low thrum of decades-old anger, it smoldered rather than burned.

You are more than the sum of your parts, but your past is still that: yours.

“But I believe the greatest weapon we have at our disposal is our voices. And I am going to use my voice for you, and for me. Hate is loud. We are louder.”

“Let them listen to what joy sounds like. Maybe they’ll learn a thing or two.”

“When we live in fear, it controls us. Every decision we make is smothered by it. I

“That’s the funny thing about those in power. They underestimate everyone beneath them, even knowing their secrets are heard by someone.”

you go into a situation expecting the worst, it may cloud your ability to see what good can come from it.”

Trust, Arthur knew, was a treasure effortlessly stolen, often without rhyme or reason. And this particular treasure was a fragile thing, a piece of thin glass easily broken. But here was David, surrounded by strangers in an unfamiliar place, attempting to pick up his pieces and put them back into a recognizable shape. Whatever else he was, David’s bravery in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds proved yet again what Arthur had always believed: magic existed in many forms, some extraordinary, some simple acts of goodwill and trust, small though they might be.

Why is it that I must always worry about tomorrows?

“But perhaps that’s the point: the trials and tribulations of life weigh heavily upon us, but we find people to help lighten the load.

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

He chose others above himself, even knowing he had the power to do whatever he wished. Why could a child do what adults could not?

He wept in bittersweet joy, in ferocious heartbreak. He wept at the unknowable mysteries of this universe.

You still push on. You help because that’s who you are as a person.”

“What people in power always want: more power.

don’t get to tell other people how they should or shouldn’t look. It’s rude. Just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean others won’t appreciate it.