following is a list of the lines I underlined in The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (spoilers ahead):
“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.” —pg. 31
“‘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.’” —pg. 108
“‘And the spiders?’ ‘Still there.’ ‘But?’ ‘But I can have spiders in my head as long as I don’t let them consume me and them destroy the world as we know it.’” —pg. 157
“‘You’re very dear, Linus Baker.’” —pg. 190
“‘You’re too precious to put into words. I think…it’s like one of Theodore’s buttons. If you asked him why he cared about them so, he would tell you it’s because they exist at all.’” —pg. 306
“‘Did you like your treasure, Mr. Baker?’ Linus looked up at Arthur again. ‘I did,’ he whispered. ‘I liked it more than anything.’” —pg. 332
“It was grief, then, that Linus felt in his little house on Hermes Way. Grief bright and glassy, unlike anything he’d ever experienced before. He was but paper, brittle and thin, and he clutched the photograph to his chest, hugging it close.” —pg. 347
“‘I’ve seen the heart of all of them, and it beats tremendously despite everything they’ve gone through, either by your hand, or others.’” —pg. 361
“His thoughts were all cerulean.” —pg. 365
“Sometimes, he thought to himself in a house in a cerulean sea, you were able to choose the life you wanted. And if you were of the lucky sort, sometimes that life chose you back.” —pg. 396