- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Part One of the novel ends with several events that indicate the imminent approach of a climactic conclusion: Peter has been humiliated in front of the whole school when Drew shares his email confessing his love to Josie and Matt pulls his pants down in the cafeteria. In the aftermath of these events, he steals Mr. Weatherall’s handgun. This quotation is listed as a Chinese proverb that serves as an epigraph to Part Two of the novel. (Note that, like many “Chinese proverbs” that circulate in Western culture, the origins of this phrase are dubious—though it is often attributed to…