The Walking Dead: Compendium One, Vol. 1-48 by Robert Kirkman

★★★
"Maybe we were just fooling ourselves until something happened that was big enough to make us stop and realize how crazy our world really is."

Virgin Earth by Philippa Gregory

★★★★
" 'I've been in my father's shadow all my life, John said, more to himself than to the silent man.  When I came here for the first time it was virgin earth for me, because it was somewhere he had not been, with plants that he had not seen, a place where he had not made friends and where people would not always know me as his son, a lesser copy of the real thing.' "