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Title: The 100 Most Powerful and Poignant Closing Lines From Literature
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Published: Mar 25, 2024
Author: Horse
Post Date: 2024-03-25 10:49:20 by Horse
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"After all, tomorrow is another day."

Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

"The creatures outside 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, George Orwell

"But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest a little boy and his Bear will always be playing."

The House At Pooh Corner, A.A. Milne

"He is coming, and I am here."

The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger

"With the Gardiners, they were always on the most intimate terms. Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them."

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

"He loved Big Brother."

1984, George Orwell

"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both."

Charlotte's Web, E.B. White

"It's funny. Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

"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, Charles Dickens

"Later on he will understand how some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake."

Dracula, Bram Stoker

"I wrote at the start that this was a record of hate, and walking there beside Henry towards the evening glass of beer, I found the one prayer that seemed to serve the winter mood: O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone forever."

The End of the Affair, Graham Greene

"Up out of the lampshade, startled by the overhead light, flew a large nocturnal butterfly that began circling the room. The strains of the piano and violin rose up weakly from below."

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

"But that is the beginning of a new story - the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended."

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this."

Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

"He was soon borne away 
by the waves and lost in darkness and distance."

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

"For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration."

The Stranger, Albert Camus

"She opened the door wide and let him into her life again."

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, Stieg Larsson


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