- "And it was raining cats and dogs out of her window, and she knew they were destined to become sacred roadkill on the way; and she was listening to the sound of heavens shaking, thinking about puddles, puddles and mistakes." - Regina Spektor, "Braille"
- "And the clock still strikes midnight and noon, and the sun still rises and so does the moon; birds still migrate south and people move on, even though I'm no longer in your arms; thought the mountain would crumble, and the rivers would bend; but I thought wrong and the world did not end." - Regina Spektor, "Rejazz"
- "Be afraid of the lame; they'll inherit your legs; be afraid of the old; they'll inherit your souls; be afraid of the cold; they'll inherit your blood; apres moi le deluge; after me comes the flood." - Regina Spektor, "Apres Moi"
- "Cuddling my semi-automatic, what a very fuzzy feeling." - Regina Spektor, "Uh-Merica"
- "Don't tell your mother that you are afraid; don't tell your lover that your heart might break; don't tell your gods that you no longer believe, because as soon as you say it out loud, they will leave you." - Regina Spektor, "Bon Idee"
- "Everything's provided; consummate consumer; a part of worldly taking, apart from worldly troubles." - Regina Spektor, "Machine"
- "He stumbled into faith and thought, 'God, this is all there is.'" - Regina Spektor, "Blue Lips"
- "I don't know why flowers grow in wintertime; the sky turns gray, the sun don't shine; and people rush to be on time; for warmth, they wrap themselves in woolen cloaks and hats and scarves, like larva in their incubated cars." - Regina Spektor, "Lounge"
- "In the morning, film crews start arriving, with doughnuts, coffee and reporters; the kids are waking up hungover, the neighbors were starting up their cars, the garbage men were emptying the dumpsters, atheists were praying full of sarcasm, and the genius next door was sleeping, dreaming that the antidote is orgasm." - Regina Spektor, "Genius Next Door"
- "Love is the answer to a question that I have forgotten, but I know I've been asked." - Regina Spektor, "Reading Time with Pickle"
- "Love will be the death of me; love is so fickle; it starts with a flood and it ends with a trickle." - Regina Spektor, "Bartender"
- "My rhyme ain't good just yet; my brain and tongue just met, and they ain't friends so far; my words don't travel far; they tangle in my hair and tend to go nowhere." - Regina Spektor, "Consequence of Sounds"
- "Oh, there's nothing wrong with them that a thousand bucks can't fix; that a thousand arms can't hold down." - Regina Spektor, "Prisoners"
- "The genius next door was bussing tables, wiping clean the ketchup bottle labels, getting high and mumbling German fables, didn't care as long as he was able to strip his clothes off by the dumpster, at night while everyone was sleeping, and wade midway into that porridge, just him and a secret he was keeping." - Regina Spektor, "Genius Next Door"
- "They don't laugh at jokes, they laugh at tragedies." - Regina Spektor, "Lady"
- "They started off beneath the knowledge tree and they chopped it down to make a picket fence, and marching along the railroad tracks, they smiled real wide for the camera lenses as they made it past the enemy lines just to become enslaved in the assembly lines." - Regina Spektor, "Blue Lips"
- "They'll name a city after us, then later say it's all our fault; then they'll give us a talking to, then they'll give us a talking to, 'cause they've got years of experience." - Regina Spektor, "Us"
- "Thought I'd cry for you forever, but I couldn't, so I didn't; people's children die and they don't even cry forever; thought I'd see your face in my mind for all time, but I don't even remember what your ears looked like." - Regina Spektor, "Rejazz"
- "We keep on burying our dead; we keep on planting their bones in the ground; but they won't grow; the sun doesn't help; the rain doesn't help." - Regina Spektor, "Lacrimosa"
- "We wear our scarves just like a noose, but not 'cause we want eternal sleep; and though our parts are slightly used, new ones are slave labor you can keep." - Regina Spektor, "Us"
- "Why are you so scared? You stand there shaking in your pew; the icons are whispering to you; they're just old men, like on the benches in the park, except their balding spots are glistening with gold." - Regina Spektor, "Human of the Year"
- "You don't know what love is 'til you see her standing there, a web of skin and nails and hair." - Regina Spektor, "Lounge"
- "The man of a thousand faces sits down at the table, eats a small lump of sugar, and smiles at the moon like he knows her." - Regina Spektor, "Man of a Thousand Faces"
- "His words are quiet like stains are on a tablecloth washed in a river; stains that are trying to cover for each other, or at least blend in with the pattern; good is better than perfect, scrub 'til your fingers are bleeding; and I'm crying for things that I tell others to do without crying." - Regina Spektor, "Man of a Thousand Faces"
- "I am drowning, there is no sign of land; You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand." - The Mountain Goats, "No Children"
- "What if the sword kills the pen? What if the god kills the man? And if he does it with love, well then it's death from above, and death from above is still a death." - Regina Spektor, "The Sword and the Pen"
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