- 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
This quote occurs after Ellie rigs the lawnmower to explode and potentially kills three of the enemy soldiers, and it is important because it underscores Ellie’s guilt and the moral implications of killing. The war forces Ellie to kill, and she does it to save herself and her friends, but Ellie still worries what her actions say about her morality. Ellie can’t bring herself to look her friends in the face after she kills the soldiers, and she absentmindedly destroys a cereal box to just avoid looking at them. Ellie can’t believe somebody as ordinary as herself has been forced…