The Last Lines of Novels quiz

I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision.

Are there any questions?

I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.

Thibault was sure there had never been such beautiful women, and the beautiful women came to them and held out their arms.

Walk forward into the light.

The Alien watched them from within the glass-fronted shop, as a sea creature might watch from an aquarium, seeing them pass and disappear into the mist.

"Oh, Constance," I said, "we are so happy."

And hardly had she left her bed and become able to walk again without pain, hardly had the children returned from the homes of the neighbors, when she began to have her fifth child.

It was the first morning of the world, and later it was finished.