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20 Favorite Last Lines from Books
Parting is such sweet sorrow, especially when it comes to saying goodbye to a good book. Last week we asked on Facebook and on Twitter: What's your favorite last line? Today we've got the top answers. Did yours make the list?
"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two of things in my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home..."
The Outsiders
by S.E. Hinton
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"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both."
Charlotte's Web
by E.B. White
by E.B. White
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
The Gunslinger
by Stephen King
by Stephen King
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
by Charles Dickens
"All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."
The Last Battle
by C.S. Lewis
by C.S. Lewis
The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
"He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning."
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
by Harper Lee
The Outsiders
by S.E. Hinton
"Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this. "
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
by Louisa May Alcott
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Milena wrote: ""And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect piece of our forever." Breaking Dawn"Good one! Favorite of mine too!
Thanks! I didn't mean to sound all "fangirly"...I just really thought and still think she ended it in the perfect way...and the curtain call in the movie ending...that was superb! Bill Codon made past an amazing ending! That has to be one of the best film endings of all time as well. Oh, never thought you sounded that way at all. Didn't even cross my mind! It was an amazing film ending!
I luv the quote from Tale of Two Cities: "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." - it was used in one of the Batman movies too
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"For you a thousand times over." - The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini.
"And like Billy Bray I go my way, and my left foot says "Glory," and my right foot says "Amen": in and out of Shadow Creek, upstream and down, in a daze, dancing, to the twin silver trumpets of praise."Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"But I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before." - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"Storms may come," it seemed to say. "But I am here"I am here.
- The Gathering Storm, Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
"I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her"- Great expectations, by Charles Dickens
"If I had the power to conjure them at my birthday celebration ... Robbie and Cecilia, still alive, still in love, sitting side by side in the library, smiling at The Trials of Arabella? It's not impossible.
But now I must sleep."
- Atonement, by Ian McEwan
"I just waited a bit, then turned back the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be."
- Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
"The light rushed closer, and I distinctly heard the horn and the engine of an oncoming train." From Changes by Jim Butcher
"They used to hang men at Four Turnings in the old days. Not any more, though." - My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
Maica wrote: "Can I share this quote? It's something that I carried it with me since childhood and made me make it through much through life, Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princ..."
This is my favorite book ever. As soon as I read the first couple of words, I recognized the quote :)
There are many books I have read that I never wanted to end because I fell in love with the place, the people, the atmosphere, the story, and I wanted my relationship with the book to go on forever. The last lines of those books filled me with regret.
The words of Mercury are hard after the songs of Apollo. you that way.We this way.Love's Labour's Lost
Shakespeare
'love comes silent and fleeting like shadows on the moon'
"It's never too late to have a happy childhood." Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker.
Nathan wrote: ""My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things get strange, when what goes bump in the night flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, give..."Absolutely the best ending of the first book of a series I love! Jim Butcher is a genius.
Nathan wrote: ""My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things get strange, when what goes bump in the night flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, give..."Haha, yeah man! :D
I love that one.
Yes I said yes. Yes!The last line of Ulysses/James Joyce. The last line of Molly's soliloquy and the most life-affirming line I have ever read.
A Time of Dancing by Davida Wills Hurwin