Posts tagged last lines

Nothing Is Lost: The 10 best closing lines of books

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  1. The Great Gatsby
    by F Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
  2. Ulysses
    by James Joyce
    “I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me…

10 Final Sentences

run-comrades:

The final sentences from the ten stories in David Foster Wallace’s Girl With Curious Hair collection…

1. Julie and the audience look at each other.

2. Bent to what two lives required, below everything, he called for help again and again.

3. And here’s what I did.

4. ‘Lyndon?’

5. Go on.

6. “Then welcome.”

7. Which turned out to be the mistake.

8. In our building in my kitchen I look at my kitchen and see the train pull her away. 

9. Say her name.

10. You are loved.