"'Why does everything have to mean something... Haven't we got enough life to be living?'" 
 Aww ok so that end was sweet. The story didn't really have a major plot as they main characters weren't the ones going off and 'saving the world' like the other kids, but this story was weirdly engaging. Patrick Ness is an author with a different writing style and I'll definitely be reading his other books. 
 "...nodding at the tower of smoke that stretches up against the mountain- it's... kind of beautiful... 'Everything's always ending. But everything's always beginning, too.'"