Lucy Eckbert

“A home isn’t always the house we live in. It’s also the people we choose to surround ourselves with. You may not live on the island”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“I think … it’s like one of Theodore’s buttons. If you asked him why he cared about them so”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“That is what is called learning the truth. It is a good thing to learn the truth one’s self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch. When as a woman life and people disappoint her, she will have had practice in disappointment and it will not come so hard. In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“The things we fear the most are often the things we should fear the least. It’s irrational”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea