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

The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1) by T.J. Klune

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“But I can have spiders in my head as long as I don’t let them consume me and then destroy the world as we know it.”

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Erika’s Quotes

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: children, parents

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“Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

tags: tragedy, wish

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“A simple truth, repeated as often as it is ignored, is that if you tell a child it can do absolutely anything, or that it can’t do anything at all, you will in all likelihood be proven right. *”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

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“When you sit there and wish things had happened differently, you can’t just wish away the bad stuff. You have to think about all the good stuff you might lose, too. Better just to stay in the now and focus on what you can do better in the future.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

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“Life is long and full of an infinite number of decisions. I have to think that the small ones don’t matter, that I’ll end up where I need to end up no matter what I do.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

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