". . . To be or not to be, that is the question . . ."

--Hamlet in Hamlet

-----

" . . . What have I become, my sweetest friend,
everyone I know goes away in the end.
And you can have it all, my empire of dirt,
I will let you down--I will make you hurt . . ."

--Trent Reznor in "Hurt"

-----

" . . . and Richard Cory went home, one calm summer night,
And put a bullet through his head . . ."

--Edward Arlington Robinson in "Richard Cory"

-----

". . . it won't rain all the time . . ."

--Jane Siberry in "It Can't Rain All the Time"

-----

" . . .I pulled back the covers, I made up the bed.
A whole lot of room
Was the only thing I had."

--Langston Hughes in "Homecoming"

-----

"What happens to a dream deferred . . ."

--Langston Hughes in "Dream Deferred"

-----

" . . .Everywhere I look, you're all I see;
just a fading, fucking reminder of who I used to be . . ."

--Trent Reznor in "All Go Away"

-----

". . .And at the closing of the day
She loosed the chain, and down she lay;
The broad stream bore her far away,
The Lady of Shalott . . ."

--Alfred Lord, Tennyson in "The Lady of Shalott"

-----

" . . .Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hang onto . . ."

--Jennifer Jason Leigh in Dolores Claiborne

-----

" . . .It's like, I'm on one side, screaming, and everyone else is on the other side, just waving . . ."

-- Mary Louise Parker in Boys on the Side