Time’s a funny thing, I thought, as I woke Amber and Linh. In the year-and-a-half since Rose returned with Clastier, the world had become a distorted, tortured version of the one where I’d grown up. Hiding and learning were all we ever
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“touched her shoulder, she flinched. “I need to do this, Vicky. It’s the right thing to do. I need to do everything I can to make sure my boy has his mum.” Still no reply. “Please?” “What if you’re not back?” “I’ll be back.” “I’m not so sure about that.” “Trust me, Vicky, I’ll be back. I promise.” The same darkness sat on her features, but something had changed.”
― The Alpha Plague
― The Alpha Plague
“across at her. “Surely you have a plan?” “Um…” Now he felt stupid. “Everyone has a plan for when the zombies hit.” Rhys didn’t. Fortunately, she didn’t push him on the matter. “So why do you let your wife keep you away from your son?” “What else can I do? I have to fight it through the courts. I have to do this the right way, and to do that, I have to keep paying my crappy solicitor until they decide they have a case pulled together. Arguing with my ex will only upset Flynn. It’s the right way to do things.” “There’s no right way now.” “Huh?” More screams called out from behind them. The woman pulled her long blonde hair back, slipped a hairband from her wrist, and tied it in a ponytail. “Didn’t you just see what happened back there? This is going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better. You’ve seen the movies, right?” Fear gripped Rhys’ stomach. “It’s really going to be that bad?” “Didn’t you just see how quickly it spread? This is ground zero. Things are going to get a whole lot fucking worse.” “In that case, I’ve got to get to Flynn. I have to”
― The Alpha Plague
― The Alpha Plague
“is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?' So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain”
― Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
― Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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“strange thing about her is that she sometimes draws the future. Only her brother Logan, fighting his cancer diagnosis, knows what she can do. But when a stranger named Ethan appears, determined to protect Caspia and her brother from dangers he won’t explain, she’s not sure what to think. Strangers almost never come to Whitfield. They certainly don’t follow her around, frightening her one moment and treating her like glass the next. And they certainly don’t look exactly like the subject of her most violent drawing.”
― 18 Things
― 18 Things
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