Famous Last Lines: Endings to Remember

Last Lines Need Love Too!

Obviously, the very first line of a book is important, so the good ones deserve the attention they get. Sometimes though, it's actually the last line of a book that ties it all together like a bow on a package. Unless you're one of our last-line-first readers...but hey, either way, what better day to celebrate some of the best last lines than the last day of the month?

The Classics

• "Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day." Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• "Later on, he will understand how some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake." Dracula by Bram Stoker
• "Then there was only the ocean and the sky and the figure of Howard Roark." The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• "He loved Big Brother." 1984 by George Orwell
• "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Contemporaries

• "Are there any questions?" The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• "Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr. Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger." Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• "And then the storm of shit begins." By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño
• "A LAST NOTE FROM YOUR NARRATOR. I am haunted by humans." The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• "I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the valley of Panjsher on my lips. I ran." The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Comedies and Romances

• "And then, while the pretty brunette girl finished singing her verse, he buzzed me through like I was someone who mattered." The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
• "He is coming, and I am here." The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• "In the meantime, she would just live." PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
• "Well, maybe it just means that we should remember that we forgot them or something. Anyway, it's about old friends." When Harry Met Sally by Nora Ephron
• "There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it, you've got to stand it." Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

And for the Kids

• "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
• "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 by A.A. Milne
• "Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye and sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him—and it was still hot." Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
• "And the tree was happy." The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
• "The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well" Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

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