Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle, #1)

by Amie Kaufman

Everyone I know is dead. My parents are dead. My sister is dead. My friends are dead. My home is gone. Everyone I know is gone.

Just because you’re not saying it doesn’t mean you’re not thinking it.

She’s the yin to my yang. The half-empty glass to my half-full. The mint chocolate chip to my strawberry triple ripple.

We the Legion We the light Burning bright against the night

You break it, I’ll put it back together.

Hmm. My current situation could be adequately described as… …suboptimal.

I think I’d like to be unconscious again, please.

“I find myself agreeing with the short annoying one,” he says. “Sir.” “Nobody’s talking to you, Finian,” I growl. “Funny, I get that a lot.”

“Color me confounded,” Finian says. “But again, I find myself agree—”

“Shut up, Finian.”

“Shut up, Finian.”

“Are you, like, a professional arsehole or…?” “More a hobbyist,” Finian replies. “Hoping to go pro next season.”

Oblivious in their righteousness. Firmly convinced that any problem can be solved with enough faith or good hard work or, when all else fails, bullets.

I suppose she is trying to be funny.

“You know what I don’t understand?” he asks. “Probably,” I reply.

the whole place looks like it’s held together with spit and good luck.

Is it weird that this girl’s don’t-mess-with-me tone makes me want to tell her she can mess with me any day she wants?

“Honestly, I could just listen to you bitch and moan all day, Finian.”

Marc de Vries. Ex-boyfriend #29. Pros: built like a brick wall. Cons: brains like a brick wall.

Tré Jackson. Ex-boyfriend #41. Pros: looks like Adonis. Cons: knows it.

Riley Lemieux. Ex-boyfriend #16. Pros: madly in love with me. Cons: MADLY in love with me.

Alex Naidu. Ex-boyfriend #38. Pros: biceps!!! Cons: unknown. “Why did I break up with you again?”

Jesse Broder. Ex-boyfriend #45. Pros: A$$. Cons: A$$hole.

I remind myself to give Finian some sass about that later.