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Closing Lines of Books

	Line	Author/Book/Year
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24.	It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.	J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
23.	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.	Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866)
22.	I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.	Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (1847)
21.	"Okay, baby, hold tight", said Zaphod. "We'll take in a quick bite at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe".	Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978)
20.	She walked rapidly in the thin June sunlight towards the worst horror of all.	Graham Greene, Brighton Rock (1940)
19.	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.	Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
18.	So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.	F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
17.	Amen; even so come, Lord Jesus.	Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (1847)
16.	She's never found peace since she left his arms, and never will again till she's as he is now!	Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure (1895)
15.	The broken flower drooped over Ben's fist and his eyes were empty and blue and serene again as cornice and facade flowed smoothly once more from left to right, post and tree, window and doorway and signboard each in its ordered place.	William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929)
14.	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 (1859)
13.	April 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.	James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
12.	The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off.	Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (1961)
11.	This stone is entirely blank. The only thought in cutting it was of the essentials of the grave, and there was no other care than to make this stone long enough and narrow enough to cover a man. No name can be read there.	Victor Hugo, Les Miserables (1962)
10.	The sun is but a morning star.	Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
9.	'Rest assured, our father, rest assured. The land is not to be sold.' But over the old man's head they looked at each other and smiled.	Pearl S Buck, The Good Earth (1931)
8.	After all, tomorrow is another day.	Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind (1936)
7.	Chicago will be ours!	Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906)
6.	But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.	Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982)
5.	Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and, after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east....	Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932)
4.	It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.	Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)
3.	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.	Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)
2.	Leave me alone for ever.	Graham Greene, The end of the Affair (1951)
1.	He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.	Harper Lee, To Kill a Mocking Bird (1960)
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