All That's Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)

by Erik J. Brown

I trail off because he knows what happened. The refrigerated trucks for the bodies, the mass unmarked graves that couldn’t be dug or filled fast enough. And no one in power doing anything to help or stop it. They just kept trying to force everyone to go about life as usual. To get back to the idea of normal.

Wake up, smile: the apocalypse has provided a cute boy to nurse us back to health.

My Jamie. My stupid, stupid Jamie who left his home and followed me because he thinks I’m a good person. It’s selfish and I so clearly have not learned my lesson because right now I want him here.

I could listen to his laugh until the day I die and never get sick of it.

Honey, if all that stops people from killing each other is the laws of men, then maybe we deserved to be wiped out by the flu.

With Andrew it doesn’t feel temporary. If someone put a gun to my head and said, “Imagine your future without him,” I don’t think it would be possible.