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After the Cure (After the Cure, #1) After the Cure by Deirdre Gould
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“If the world could predict who the villains and heroes were going to be, the crisis wouldn’t exist in the first place.” They”
Deirdre Gould, After the Cure
“But when you have eight billion people living together, a few of them are bound to be wired wrong.”
Deirdre Gould, After the Cure
“going to be, the crisis wouldn’t exist in the first place.”
Deirdre Gould, After the Cure
“If the world could predict who the villains and heroes were”
Deirdre Gould, After the Cure
“Even when we're on the point of extinction we still waste energy on hating each other.”
Deirdre Gould, After the Cure
“They stood there like that for several minutes, two almost-strangers aching for the world that was lost in the gnashing jaws of disease and worrying for the world that was found on the other side of it.”
Deirdre Gould, After the Cure
“one like the one that saved us this time. And a different strain means even the Immunes wouldn't be safe this time.”
Deirdre Gould, After the Cure
“Something for which there is no cure, there can be no cure, not even a miracle”
Deirdre Gould, After the Cure
“Dr. Pazzo was serious and quiet. Nella sensed that she was now seeing the real man that Dr. Pazzo was. The one that had destroyed the world. And then lived to regret it.”
Deirdre Gould, After the Cure
“Nella tried not to think about the hundreds of people nearby, all rotting in their sleep, but the raspy hum of the flies was almost overwhelming. The heat trebled the intensity of the rotting sewage smell that hung in a cloud over them. It would be worse when they woke up and began moving around.”
Deirdre Gould, After the Cure
“I don’t know who it was, I don’t know what to think. Maybe that’s not even the reason. Maybe it was someone that just cared about Ann or Dr. Pazzo.”
Deirdre Gould, After the Cure
“Sometimes there's no real explanation, no justification for things that happen.”
Deirdre Gould, After the Cure
“What good were fountain pens and an empty wallet?”
Deirdre Gould, After the Cure
“Nella laughed. “You know, I used to pop these like breath mints when I was in college for headaches.” “Didn’t”
Deirdre Gould, After the Cure
“She tried not to think of how similar the crunch of bone and the damp snap, snap, snap of the carrot between Ann’s tireless teeth sounded. “Can”
Deirdre Gould, After the Cure
“He touched her forehead with his own. "The whole world had to die before I found you. I've been through hell. I even became the devil himself for awhile. I can't lose you now. The universe can't be that unjust.”
Deirdre Gould, After the Cure
“Frank stopped for a moment. He lifted his face to look at her. His breath was rapid and thin, as if he were drowning in her.”
Deirdre Gould, After the Cure
“Sometimes I feel like a stray pebble rattling around in an empty shoe.”
Deirdre Gould, After the Cure