I stole the idea from whoever started "Favorite First Sentence."
I have one in mind, but I don't remember how it exactly goes and someone currently is checking out the book, so that'd have to wait.
I stole the idea from whoever started "Favorite First Sentence."
I have one in mind, but I don't remember how it exactly goes and someone currently is checking out the book, so that'd have to wait.
You're just another bastard.
I NEVER remember last lines. I always finish the last page or pages quickly and immediatly start reading something new. I'm sure there are some great last sentences out there, but the only one I can think is Sydney Carton's "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."
...Also baby duck hat would be good for parties.
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle
It's just the first one that comes to my mind... Everyone of the 3 parts of the Divine Comedy ends with the word 'stelle' (stars). Maybe with the very same whole sentence, I'm not sure... I find it nice.
Argh, as I said in the other thread, I used to read last lines before buying the book, but I realise now I don't remember many of them... I think I remember beginnings better.
dead on the inside, i've got nothing to prove
keep me alive and give me something to lose
"Amen. And all that cal."
Not a great book but a great closing to a book.
A real horrorshow closing to a really cally last chapter, too.
A couple very well known, but well loved:
"The creatures looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." --Animal Farm (duh)
"'Well, I'm back,' he said. [Emily commences bawling.]" --Return of the King
Me bawling isn't officially in the book, but it's always part of the ending, so I thought I'd include it.
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
Ha! Great avatar!Originally Posted by emily655321
And since I specifically mentioned this line in another thread: "Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt."
Many thanks indeed.
And now we have a second Hermetic among us! We have a Logos, too, but he's been silent for quite some time now. (I'm assuming that's where he got his name, anyway.)
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
Invasion of the gnostics. Don't sleep near pods.
"She's never found peace since she left his arms, and never will again till she's as he is now!" - Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
"When unto these sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up a remembrance of things past."
And somehow, he felt that he was headed in the right direction.
- E.B. White, Stuart Little
shh!!!
the air and water have been here a long time, and they are telling stories.
I second that. My english teacher told us The Great Gatsby was about materialism, but he was a concieted, superficial ***, honestly. This sentence sums up one of the greater themes of Fitzgerald's novel: the desire to relive the past, though it has already gone by.
Strangers passing in the street, by chance to separate glances meet, and I am you and what I see is me.
On Den’s recommendation I just read Albert Camus’ novel The Plague and it contains my new favorite last sentence. The small French Algerian town of Oran had just opened the gates of the town after a year-long quarantine for the Bubonic Plague:
“He [Dr. Rieux] knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good; that it can lie dormant for years and years in furniture and linen-chests; that it bides its time in bedrooms, cellars, trunks, and bookshelves; and that perhaps the day would come when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city.”
Uhhhh...
"Ah", he said, "a new option".
Luke Rhinehart, The Dice Man
"A good night's sleep is no substitute for caffeine."
"Raskolnikov repeated his statement." --Crime and Punishment
(I'm not counting the epilogue. No. Bad epilogue.)
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
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