The Most Beautiful Last Lines From Novels

The Most Beautiful Last Lines From Novels

The last line of a novel holds a tremendous amount of power. There are some last lines, some last farewells to the reader, which are crafted so beautifully and with so much meaning that they forever become engrained in my brain. These last lines below leave an impact on me long after I have finished the book, and I always go back to it, pondering it over and over.

- He loved Big Brother. – George Orwell, 1984

- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

- After all, tomorrow is another day. – Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind

- 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

- It's old light, and there's not much of it. But it is enough to see by. – Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

- 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. – A. A. Milne, The House At Pooh Corner

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