Wednesday, December 9, 2009

The Last Thing I'll Ever Say

The American Book Review has created a list of the best 100 last lines in fiction. Here are a few of my favorite from that list ...

Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision. –Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927)

He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance. –Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)

But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can’t stand it. I been there before. –Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)


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