Patrick Ness

Not everyone has to be the chosen one. 
The one who's supposed to fight the zombies or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever this new things is, with the blue lights and the death. 
What if you were Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again. 
And what is there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world and you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life? 
Even if your best friend might be the God of mountain lions...

The Rest Of Us Just Live Here

Selina 

 to die,” Jared says. “You just weren’t supposed to die right now.”

Signe

"My sister always does this. She thinks she's stupid. She's so, so not."

"That could happen tomorrow. It could happen five thousend years from now. Life, eh?"

"We're just as screwed up and brave and false and loyal and wrong and right as anyone else."

"And we're the stories we're living now. Aren't we?"

"I'm choosing my own story. Because if you can't do that, you might as well just give up."

"I hope you get to choose your family and I hope it means as much as mine does to me."

"We could keep being too afraid to say we don't know stuff and then the future will come and eat us anyway and we'll regret not doing all that stuff we wished we did."

"You can be happy. You can have fun. But it's always there. Always."

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