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“I'm not depressed!'
she looked him up and down. 'You aren't? Why on earth not?”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“The first time you share tea, you are a stranger. The second time you share tea, you are an honored guest. The third time you share tea, you become family.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“What you are feeling now might be considered happiness."
"It's terrible," Hap said. "I want to p-punch something.”
― T.J. Klune, In the Lives of Puppets

“Love will gut you and then ask
you to carry on singing with light on your tongue

—Traci Brimhall, from “Lullaby on Mount Moriah”, Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod (‎Copper Canyon Press (March 31, 2020)”
― Traci Brimhall, Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod