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Position:Home>Books & Authors> Saddest line in a story you've ever read?Question: Saddest line in a story you've ever read!? Any story!. I'm writing a story and want to make my possible readers actually cry or laugh or smile while reading, and need some inspiration!. Just a quote or a paragraph from a story so I can be inspired!. TY!. Make sure it's one that made you cry, cuz that's what I'm trying to make my readers do at a certain part!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: "But after I had got them out and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good!. It was like saying good-by to a statue!. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain!." ~Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms "He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear!." ~Edith Wharton The House of Mirth "He had a message to convey, but the darkness and the storm drove it back outside the world that drummed like hammer blows within his ear, someone wandered, seeking to get in, someone appealing for need, at the cry of a victim, Scobie stung himself to act!. He dredged his consciousness up from an infinite distance in order to make some replay!. He said aloud, 'Dear God, I love!. !. !.' but the effort was too great and he did not feel his body when it struck the floor or hear the small tinkle of the medal as it span like a coin under the ice box--the saint whose name nobody could remember!." ~Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter Not surprisingly, all of these quotes are about death, the last two being suicides!. Thanks for cheering me up!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I cried at the end of the third book in the "his dark materials" series!. The first book is "the golden compass" and once you start reading them you will understand why somebody would cry!. You care about the charters and you feel sad when they are sad!. also "Where The Red Fern Grows" is a classic and a true tear jerkier!.Www@QuestionHome@Com "Shukhov went to sleep, and he was very happy!. He'd had a lot of luck today!. They hadn't put him in the cooler!. The gang hadn't been chased out to work in the Socialist Community Development!. He'd finagled an extra bowl of mush at noon!. The boss had gotten them good rates for their work!. He'd felt good making that wall!. They hadn't found that piece of steel in the frisk!. Caesar had paid him off in the evening!. He'd bought some tobacco!. And he'd gotten over that sickness!. "Nothing had spoiled the day and it had been almost happy!. "There were three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days like this in his sentence, from reveille to lights out!. "The three extra ones were because of the leap years!." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich!.' (translation by Ronald Hingley and Max Hayward!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com Love in the Time of Cholera the old doctor falls to his death from a tree and right before he goes he looks into the eyes of his wife and says, "Only God knows how much I loved you!." and then he dies in her arms!.Www@QuestionHome@Com A Time for Dancing by Davida Wills Hurwin: How can someone hurt this much and still be alive!?Www@QuestionHome@Com It doesn't matter!. Not really now not any more!. --RED SHIFT by Alan Garner (last line)Www@QuestionHome@Com ummm!.!.!.!.!.ever heard of plagiarism!?!?!?Www@QuestionHome@Com "My dear, I don't give a damn!." --- Rhett Butler from Gone with the Wind!. I was sobbing at this point in the story!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |