If It'd Been Left to Me: Literary Edition

WARNING: Potential spoilers for Jane Eyre, The Lord of the Rings, And Then There Were None (Ten Little Soldiers)
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Reader, I murdered him. The End - Jane Eyre
"Dear Frodo," wrote Gandalf, "if I should fall, ride the giant birds that rhyme with beagle, there's a good fellow." - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
"I insist that we each take every victim's pulse, Dr. Armstrong!" Emily said. "One cannot be too careful." - And Then There Were None