Across
- 2. "Life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly" (Dreams by Langston Hughes)
- 4. "This sight of death is as a bell that warns my old age to a sepulcher" (Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare)
- 6. "But four hours later, the fish was still swimming steadily out to sea" (The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway)
- 8. "the moans and screams merged with the sickening smell of woolen black clothes worn in summer weather and green leaves wilting over yellow flowers" (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou)
- 9. "suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door" (The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe)
- 10. "and if you break the ice and do this feat" (The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare)
Down
- 1. "I had to wait in the station for ten days — an eternity" (Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad)
- 3. "Montag stopped eating … he saw their Cheshire cat smiles burning through the walls of the house" (Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury)
- 5. "Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me" (Because I Could Not Stop For Death by Emily Dickinson)
- 7. "I inherited her name but I did not want to inherit her place by the window" (House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros)