The year is 2032, sixteen years after a deadly virus—and the vaccine intended to protect against it—wiped out most of the earth’s population. The night before eighteen-year-old Eve’s graduation from her all-girls school she discovers what really happens to new graduates, and the horrifying... read more
“Even if the troops found me, even if I collapsed out in the desert, in the shadow of the great rocks, I had to move. I had to at least try”Eve
I had read once, in one of those pre-plague books in the library, that love was bearing witness. That it was the act of watching someone’s life, of simply being there to say: your life is worth seeing.Highlighted by 14 Kindle customers
“Benny told me that loving someone meant knowing that your life would be worse without them in it.”Highlighted by 12 Kindle customers
love was death’s only adversary, the only thing powerful enough to combat its clawing, desperate grasp.Highlighted by 11 Kindle customers
a relationship between two people can be judged by the list of things unspoken between them.Highlighted by 9 Kindle customers
“Love is just”—I searched for the right words—“caring about someone very deeply. Feeling like that person matters to you, like your whole world would be sadder without them in it.”Highlighted by 6 Kindle customers
‘we will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.’”Highlighted by 5 Kindle customers
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