Book I – This Is the Way the World Ends – Scout/Shane

“This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper.” – T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men”

Book II – Not to Belong Is to Be Too Lonesome – Daryl/Lori

“All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.” – Carson McCullers, “The Member of the Wedding”

Antagonists: Whisperers

Book III – There’s a Certain Slant of Light – Carol/Merle

“There’s a certain Slant of light, / Winter Afternoons— / That oppresses, like the Heft / Of Cathedral Tunes—” – Emily Dickinson, “There’s a certain Slant of light”

Antagonists: Governor/Woodbury

Book IV – Courage Is Beginning Anyway – Cricket/Tara

“It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.” – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Antagonists: Reapers

Book V – Everything Lightly – Eugene/Honey “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.” – Aldous Huxley, Island

Antagonists: Negan/Saviors

Book VI – I Believe While I Tremble – Jazz/Jesus

“I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep” – Charlotte Brontë, Villette

Antagonists: Commonwealth