The indie kids, huh? You’ve got them at your school, too. That group with the cool-geek haircuts and the charity shop clothes and names from the fifties. Nice enough, never mean, but always the ones who end up being the Chosen One when the vampires come calling or when the alien queen needs the Source of All Light or something. They’re too cool to ever, ever do anything like go to prom or listen to music other than jazz while reading poetry. They’ve always got some story going on that they’re heroes of. The rest of us just have to live here, hovering around the edges, left out of it all, for the most part.
Having said that, the indie kids do die a lot. Which must suck.

Not everyone has to be the Chosen One.
Not everyone gets to be heroes.

The Rest of Us Just Live Here is about people in the sideline you read in superheroes stories. The people being saved. The people who are not involved directly in the Thing that's happening but the Thing affects them too and they have their own issues and problems. You know how in those stories the main characters are the ones who did the saving? Well not in this book. Mike, Mel, Jared, and Henna are the people in the sidelines and the heroes are the Indie Kids. But that doesn't mean that they're not special in their own way too because Mike and Mel's family is like totally fucked up but somehow they manage to still be there for each other and try their hardest to be good people, Jared is a God of Cats (and mountain lions) and he can heals people, and Henna is amazingly supportive and mature and she never disappoints me ever. And with all that happening there's also a lot of other weird shits happening in the background like buildings blowing up, kids dying, and zombies, you know, the usual crazy stuff. There are vampires and soul eating ghosts being mentioned too and somehow everyone is so chill about those stuff because surely they happen all the time and it's not like super weird or whatever, right?

This book has such amazing characters and I really love Patrick Ness because this book is just so good and so weird but in a good way and I felt the same about More Than This. I love how Mike doesn't mind about fooling around with Jared and he didn't make it into a big deal. He just accepts the fact that this is how his relationship with Jared works, they're touchy feely and they love each other. I appreciate that so much. I also appreciate the relationship between Mike and Mel and how they help each other and generally being amazing and supportive to each other.

He puts more stuff on my face. And yeah, I know most people would think it weird that two guy friends touch as much as we do, but when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too. This is how we work. I hope you get to choose your family and I hope it means as much to you as mine does to me.

“You said you’d both take me,” Meredith says. “It’s more fun if we’re all there together.”
The simple love in the way she says this makes my heart hurt a little bit. Yeah, my parents are crappy, but you hurt either of my sisters and I will spend my life finding ways to destroy you.

Also throughout this book all the characters have problems with their parents and the decisions they made for their kids and in the end Henna knew how to say no and stood up for herself and made a decision for herself.

“The mistake of every adult, though, is to think darkness and hardship aren’t important to young people because we’ll grow out of it. Who cares if we will? Life is happening to us now, just like it’s happening to you.”

“This is my scar. I carry it around. Most of the time, I don’t even think about it.”

“You know what?” I say, quietly, to Jared.
“What?”
“I think… I think I don’t want you to heal my scar. Or anything else yet.”
“You sure?”
“Yeah. If it gets bad again. Bad enough to… Well, I’ll think about it then. But not yet.”
“Is the medication working that well?”
“No, but if you heal all that stuff, I’ll live the rest of my life not knowing if I could have figured it out on my own.”

Did I mention that this book is hufflepuff af?? (Saw this on tumblr and I freaked out)
source: http://noseinabook.tumblr.com/post/140960621114/throne-of-pages-not-everyone-has-to-be-the