Pandemic (The Extinction Files, #1)

by A.G. Riddle

Indian proverb: A healthy person has a hundred wishes, but a sick person has only one.

“Our brains are like a muscle, Desmond: they become conditioned to the strain they must endure. We are an exceptionally adaptive species. We change to survive in the environment in which we exist.

To him, the most terrifying possibility was that her time with him had made her unable to love; that by being with her, he had infected her