An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (The Carls, #1)

by Hank Green

In case you aren’t a nerd, I’m saying that you were the first human to discover extraterrestrial technology . . . possibly extraterrestrial life. So . . . congratulations?

You fall somewhere different on a broad spectrum with every person you encounter.

When we are pressured, that is when we are greatest. That is when we accomplish the most.”

“Oh holy fuckballs,” my mom said.

“You hate that you were chosen by an alien race to be their envoy?

think the Carls, maybe they didn’t pick you because of who you were but because of who you could become.”