Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)

by T.J. Klune

Hate is loud. We are louder.”

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

“A time will come,” she said, “when all of us will have to make a choice between what is right and what is wrong. I worry that time is closer than we think. And I don’t know that we’re prepared.

Lucy tilted his head back, staring up at the ceiling. “It’s hard.” “What is?” “Being alive.”

“And yet, studies have shown that trauma in the form of abuse changes the physical brain to be hypersensitive to future stress, which can often lead victims of abuse to respond excessively to even the smallest stressors.