Kriti

“But is it too much to ask for a trespasser? I’ve always wanted to see if humans make good fertilizer. It seems like they would.” She eyed him up and down hungrily. “All that flesh.” “Oh dear,” Linus managed to say. She huffed out a breath. “We don’t get trespassers here. Unless … I saw a cat. Did you bring it as a gift for the house? Lucy will be excited about that. And maybe when he’s done with it, he’ll let me use what’s left. It’s not the same as a human, but I’m sure it’ll work.” “She’s not an offering,” Linus said, aghast. “She’s a pet.” “Oh. Darn.” “Her name is Calliope!” “Well, we better find her before the others do.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Arthur says that we should always make time for the things we like,” Talia said. “If we don’t, we might forget how to be happy.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Today he wore blue socks with clouds on them. Linus refused to be charmed. He mostly succeeded.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“There’s a surface to you that’s hard but cracked. Dig a little deeper, and there is all this life teeming wildly. It’s a conundrum.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea