“I cried for what should have been.”
“I cried for all of those things that should have just been for us...”
“I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.”
“He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.'I lean over. My hair smothers him.'Then you should never have been born,' I say.”
“Tasting what could have been—what should have been—didn't make it easier.”
“They took away what should have been my eyes (but I remembered Milton's Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears) They took away what should have been my tongue, (but I had talked with god when I was young) He would not let them take away my soul, possessing that I still possess the whole.”