Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)

by T.J. Klune

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.”

You want me lost, but I am found in the breaths I take, in the spaces between heartbeats. I am found because I refuse to be in black and white, or any shade of gray.

I am color. I am fire. I am the sun, and I will burn away the shadows until only light remains. And then you will have no choice but to see me.

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

“I fear we’re on the cusp of either salvation or destruction.

“Confidence is silent. Insecurities are loud.”

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

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

“And that’s what I’m learning from my new home. It doesn’t matter what we look like, it doesn’t matter where we came from, or what we can do. All that matters is that we’re here, together, being anything and anyone we want to be.”