When you see zombies, they're typically in a horde. A big group close together, as if they were just holding hands before you saw them and they quickly let go.

There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host.

Plus, I wondered if any of these celebrities were alive; or if Brangelina was now a zombified couple.

Nothing, I learned, brings you into the present quite like holding hands. The past seemed irrelevant; the future, unnecessary.

Later, holding Milo’s hand in the dark, Jacob felt that it was only in recovering it that he learned what he had been in danger of losing. The touch of Milo’s hand seemed to remind him of parts of himself that he had already begun to forget about.

Sometimes you have to do something ugly so that something beautiful can grow.