The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)

by T.J. Klune

He’d learned early on in life that if he didn’t speak, people often forgot he was there or even existed.

Why is it that I must always worry about tomorrows?”

He’d accepted long ago that some people, no matter how good their heart was or how much love they had to give, would always be alone.

Sometimes, silence was the loudest thing of all.

"you can hear it in the silence"

And beyond the white was cerulean.

“They fear what they don’t understand. And that fear turns to hate for reasons I’m sure even they can’t begin to comprehend.

“It’s the little things. Little treasures we find without knowing their origin. And they come when we least expect them. It’s beautiful, when you think about it.