What are your favorite last lines!?
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Simple question!. It shouldn't be too hard to come up with a couple of favorites!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: THE FINAL PASSAGE FROM "THE ROAD" BY CORMAC MCCARTHY: Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains!. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow!. They smelled of moss in your hand!. Polished and muscular and torsional!. On their backs were vermiculite patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming!. Maps and mazes!. Of a thing which could not be put back!. Not be made right again!. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery!.Www@QuestionHome@Com It isn't exactly a last line but this is my favorite line in the book it's from the Notebook: "I am no one special!. Just a common man with common thoughts!. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten!. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived!. I've loved another with all my heart and soul and for me that has always been enough!."Www@QuestionHome@Com the last page of The Great Gatsby has to be my favorite: Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us!. It eluded us then, but that's no matter -- to-morrow we will run faster, stretch our arms farther!.!.!. And one fine morning -- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past!."Www@QuestionHome@Com "She gloried in being a sailor’s wife, but she must pay the tax of quick alarm for belonging to that profession which is, if possible, more distinguished in its domestic virtues than in its national importance"!. Persuasion - Jane Austen "And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!" A Christmas Carol - Charles DickensWww@QuestionHome@Com "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past!." From the Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald "The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off!." from Catch-22 by Heller "'It is a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known!.'" A Tale of Two Cities by DickensWww@QuestionHome@Com "Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys!?" - Carlson from Of Mice and Men!. i like it because it really sums up the characters!. if you didn't read the book, you might not get it!. but for pepole who have read it, this last line really ties everything up!.Www@QuestionHome@Com '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' Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities!.Www@QuestionHome@Com "It's a strange world," I murmmed, more to myself than to the other native soul!. "The strangest he agreed," he agreed!. ~The Host by Stephenie MeyerWww@QuestionHome@Com "Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged!. I stop somewhere waiting for you!." Walt Whitman, Leaves of GrassWww@QuestionHome@Com ''And like a thief, death took him''!. ~ Death be not proud by john gunther!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |