", "The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. Isnt it pretty to think so?, 2. A Good Man Is Hard To Find, Flannery OConnor (From The Complete Stories ). He becomes a script doctor on what she intends to be her comeback project, a film she wants legendary filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille to direct. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning. His final advice, not to tell anybody anything, could have run anywhere in the novel, but it sounds especially poignant at the end of his journey. ", The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "My personal rollercoaster. They succeed, and, in the end, they're forced to say an emotional goodbye before the little Reese's Pieces-eater hops on his starship. Now, of course, his story about a handsome gangster is considered one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. ", Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, "When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances then candid ones, they had to smile. The Handmaids Tale, by Margaret Atwood (1985), If you havent read Atwoods dystopian novel since it was first published, you may have forgotten what follows the story of Offreds resistance to the Republic of Gilead. After so much trauma and the exhausting exorcism that concludes the novel, what other ending would do but a final invocation of that child who represents so many snuffed out by our nations foundational sin? Interesting cinematography and engaging introductory scenes are vital to reel viewers into a film, but a final line is perhaps even more important. One of the most-quoted lines from Casablanca, "Here's looking at you, kid," is one that Humphrey Bogart ad-libbed during the flashback scenes of Rick and Ilsa falling in love in Paris. The bottom line, though, is that it's about the way that the desire for anything valuable, monetary or otherwise, can lead people down dark roads in their efforts to obtain it. Its also one of the most poetic novels ever written, as this gorgeous closing line demonstrates. ", "This stone is entirely blank. '", "I lost track after a while, happy to be home, weeping for my father, and thinking about what was next. by J.D. The tales of the supernatural and the extraterrestrial. LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT by Eugene O'Neill [1956]. Those that didn't: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," ""The Glass Menagerie," "A Raisin in the Sun" and "The Crucible.". Having a perfect capper ensures the movie will linger in the viewer's head long after it's over. He has just been awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor. Its a monstrously selfish act borne of panic over his lost youth and the soul-crushing responsibilities of adult life. He witnesses suffering and pain, capped by the emotional devastation of his partner. Sure, Kansas feels dull to Dorothy, but it's where the people who love her are. Best wonderfully mangled last line from a wonderfully mangled novel: Prettiest description of oblivion and both the interconnectedness and meaninglessness of worldly phenomena that also sounds something like a dehumanized version of the last line of The Great Gatsby: The wake itself remains, etched out across the waters surface; then it fades as well, although no one is there to see it go. The next day, Tony stands at a press conference and makes a stunning confession: "the truth is, I am Iron Man.". Our annual survey of the best books includes 10 we think are exceptionally rewarding and 100 more notable titles you shouldnt miss. 4. Ethereal and evocative, this line nicely wraps up Capote's deeply personal and heart-wrenching story. ", "The eyes and faces all turned themselves towards me, and guiding myself by them, as by a magical thread, I stepped into the room. For much of the film, he has been portrayed as a monster; a giant, crazed animal to be feared. While the line can certainly be taken literally, this could also be interpreted as the director inserting a comment about the film. Upon being arrested, Norma, who is convinced that the newsreel cameras filming her capture are part of her movie production, exclaims, "Alright, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.". There is deep, delicious irony in this line. "Oh, poor,. Then she feels a pressure on her hand and he speaks his first words for a week. It's an action-filled finale that leads to Neo's poignant last words. The above is only a portion (we wouldn't be able to fit all of it in this article), but we couldn't NOT include one of the longest last sentences in literature. But how painfully ironic that Americas most macho author should be remembered for a novel about an impotent man. The plot of Sebolds debut novel sounds equally gruesome and mawkish: Susie, a 14-year-old girl, is raped and murdered by a neighbor, and then she describes her familys reaction from heaven. His testimony, sealed with that line from King Lear, is enough to convert anyone to the power of great fiction. In fewer words than most novelists use in a single paragraph, Sendak managed to capture our fundamental fears and thrills. ", Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "Light falls through the window, falls onto me, into me. Perhaps the greatest failure of American literature, which is so bravely explicit about all other aspects of life, is its nervous avoidance of anything explicitly religious. Most delicate ending to a delicate, harrowing story about the different kinds of humanity and grace: Shut up, Bobby Lee, The Misfit said. Its final scene, the culmination of a relentless series of hardships, losses and deaths, offers a moment of startling compassion and intimacy the very milk of human kindness made flesh. Hemingways vaguely autobiographical story about a group of dissipated friends in Europe after World War I has aged well. The Catcher in the Rye , J.D. ", In the all-time classic Casablanca, American expatriate/nightclub owner Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) is reunited with an old lover, Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman). . "If music be the food of love, play on" Twelfth Night Romeo and Juliet A Midsummer Night's Dream Reveal 2. As a man, he makes his way into the Mafia, where he's guided by three mentors: Paulie Cicero (Paul Sorvino), Jimmy "the Gent" Conway (Robert DeNiro), and the volatile Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci). Sophocles. He's a silent guardian. I justgave me a turn." Portrait by Sophie Herxheimer. Egan's theme of using music and sounds to convey nostalgia is wrapped up neatly here, and she paints the characters' lives as cyclical, like the playing of a favorite record. II,1,368. The first readers were shocked by There is no better portrayal of 20th-century white men than the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit series, which went on to include Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest and the novella Rabbit Remembered. Each book ends with an echo of the first novels last word, a subtle coda that ties together the stages of Rabbits life. But you, O my brothers, remember sometimes thy little Alex that was. I play video games. Even today, millions of people think of the ravages of the Great Depression through the lens of Steinbecks story. ", "Later on he will understand how some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake. 20. The School, Donald Barthelme (From Sixty Stories). Most grandiose and declarative/most often quoted by people who have no idea where its from: 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., 18. He twists his head from one side to the other. Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, You can feel the rawness as soon as it starts, as a. The miracle vitamins, the cures for cancer, the remedies for obesity. The movie lines so famous you forgot where they came from. Let me cry, my love. ", Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, Alexandra Fuller, "Yes, they will trample me underfoot, the numbers marching one two three, four hundred million five hundred six, reducing me to specks of voiceless dust, just as, in all good time, they will trample my son who is not my son, and his son who will not be his, and his who will not be his, until the thousand and first generation, until a thousand and one midnights have bestowed their terrible gifts and a thousand and one children have died, because it is the privilege and the curse of midnights children to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake privacy and be sucked into the annihilating whirlpool of the multitudes, and to be unable to live or die in peace. 8. Without missing a beat, Osgood retorts, "well, nobody's perfect.". Knowing that the complex power of her book is already complete, the very ending offers a sigh of emotional relief: a wry repudiation of Jane Eyre., Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson (2004). Im a man of my, 6. Twilight came on. I'm all for crime. Mitchell's famous last lines are at once heartbreaking and hopeful. ", "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 himand it was still hot. "And she comes to you, and she does not speak, and the others do not notice her, and she takes your hand, and you ready yourself to die, eyes open, aware this is all an illusion, a last aroma cast up by the chemical stew that is your brain, which will soon cease to function, and there will be nothing, and you are ready, ready to die well, ready to die like a man, like a woman, like a human, for despite all else you have loved, you have loved your father and your mother and your brother and your sister and your son and yes, your ex-wife, and you have loved the pretty girl, you have been beyond yourself, and so you have courage, and you have dignity, and you have calmness in the face of terror, and awe, and the pretty girl holds your hand, and you contain her, and this book, and me writing it, and I too contain you, who may not yet even be born, you inside me inside you, though not in a creepy way, and so may you, may I, may we, so may we all of us confront the end. By: Nathan Chandler. "What have you. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate. Ron Charles writes about books for The Washington Post. ". Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill This autobiographical play about O'Neill's young adulthood scorches from start to finish. Its a plaintive acknowledgment that his wandering confession to us has brought him no comfort. All gathering towards this one.". ", Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery, "And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldnt see to kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, my mother and son, my wife and our daughter, making the most of the good weather and all the days that were left, our little game watched only by next doors cat, and every star in the heavens. This writers personal favorite. It's dark and psychological, but also exciting as all get out. The most excellently crafted, strange, funny and ambiguous ending I have ever met: They said, please, please make love with Helen, we require an assertion of value, we are frightened. If not, I'll die your maid: to be your fellow. As Woody watches him fade into the distance, he utters the bittersweet words, "so long, partner.". (Caliban, Act 3 Scene 2) Our revels now are ended. That final line, with its simple, imploring repetition, concludes the novel with just the right spirit of affirmation and regret. ", A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal, Asne Seierstad, "It was then that I began to sit on my bed and stare out at the nibbling squirrels, and to make up powems from intense abstraction, hour after unmarked hour, imagination scarcely faltering once, rhythm hardly skipping a beat, while sisters called me, suns rose and fell, and the poems I made, which I never remembered, were the first and last of that time", "And presently, like a circling typhoon, the sounds of battle began to return. Into this upper-crust club comes condo developer Al Czervik (Rodney Dangerfield). Surely we have learned by now that such judgments are of necessity culture-specific. The lessons of the past, he notes chillingly, are obscured by the passage of time. Considering Salingers many decades as the nations most famous recluse, were tempted, of course, to consign that same pain to the author. In 1816, Lord Byron suggested to friends vacationing with him in Switzerland that they each write a ghost story. NEXT: 10 Best Comedy Movies Of 2021, According To IMDb, 13 Best Shark Movies To Watch This Summer (That Aren't Jaws), 10 Unpopular Opinions About E.T. Advertisement. A Gate at the Stairs, by Lorrie Moore (2009), Novels and short stories make different demands on their forms and their readers. Nancy Dell'Olio v Jeremy Paxman, Quiz: match the stage directions to the play, Which Shakespeare characters speak these lines? To honour it, we have curated eight thought-provoking lines from some of the world's most famous plays- from Macbeth to Harry Potter And The Cursed Child. A flubbed dismount sullies even the most awe-inspiring routine. Salinger (1951). Most visually representative ending to a novel: this way this way this way this way this way this way this way out this way out O, 17. South-south-west, south, south-east, east ", "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. The Finish Line - 10 questions - 3 mins. It was, in so many ways, a film ahead of its time. ", "But I don't think us feel old at all. The plays . I am invisible, the unnamed narrator says at the start, simply because people refuse to see me, but by the end, no one could ever ignore him. Salinger. Rate this book. "Dont ever tell anybody anything. But over the old man's head they looked at each other and smiled. Everyone is now free to have a good time at the club no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money they have. 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. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925). 'Come in, Mrs. Brown,' she says. ", "Because it is written that you reap what you sow, and the boy had sown good corn. I am haunted by humans. 19. "From The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. ", "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. Ford is better known for his books about real estate agent Frank Bascombe, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, but this novel is his finest. The story ends with the protagonist, Neo (Keanu Reeves), destroying the evil Agent Smith and learning how to control the Matrix. A stormy wind rattled the scrap-iron in the ruins, whistling and howling through the charred cavities of the windows. ", A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, "'God's in his heaven, alls right with the world,' whispered Anne softly. While nowhere close to historically accurate, it's a fine example of cinematic wish fulfillment. "Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past. Americans have consistently called Mitchells Pulitzer Prize-winning novel one of their very favorites. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling. They spark interest by stating a hard truth that seemingly comes from deep within the narrator's (or writer's) soul. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (2006). And we never forgot it. As you probably guessed, the famous lines above open Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night. You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The entire Toy Story series deals with the connection between playthings and the children who own them. The great thing about this final line is that it finds Tony Stark doing something few superheroes ever do, which publicly identifying himself. Inglourious Basterds remains one of Quentin Tarantino's most celebrated films, and that is undoubtedly due to its satisfying third act. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston (1937), The fact that there is no demand for incisive and full-dress stories around Negroes above the servant class is indicative of something of vast importance to this nation, Hurston wrote in 1950. The strains of the piano and violin rose up weakly from below. The quoted lines occur in a voiceover as people enter and exit a hotel's revolving door. We know, he laments, that our first dreams can never be realized, but we cant help pining for them anyhow. Dorothy, relieved to be away from all that drama, looks at her aunt and exclaims "Auntie Em, there's no place like home!". The children were excited. About confronting the end?! A sudden breeze over the Tigris forms a tiny whirlwind. All was well. Go on my son! ", "With the Gardiners, they were always on the most intimate terms. ", "But, in spite of these deficiencies, the wishes, the hopes, the confidence, the predictions of the small band of true friends who witnessed the ceremony, were fully answered in the perfect happiness of the union. E.T. by John Steinbeck (1939). Inside, the agent comes to the shocking realization that he just let the real Keyser Soze get away. Endings, as we all know, are important. The tale of Max, the mischievous boy sent to bed without his supper, was Sendaks greatest achievement, the perfect pairing of text and image. Fight Club's ending scene is seriously audacious, offering a somewhat bleak outlook for the character going forward. Others leave us hanging, and still others provide a cathartic sense of closure. Quiz: whose review is it anyway? The butterfly motif brings the concept of "lightness" to life; this final vignette captures the mood of the book perfectly. Huck Finn is the most contentious Great American Novel. Alex snapped open his eyes, and he and Bennie both turnedwhirled, really, peering for Sasha in the ashy dark. One of his associates leads him away from the scene of a standoff, offering the advice, "forget it, Jake. 11. A Perfect Day for Bananafish, J.D. Alices Adventures in Wonderland , Lewis Carroll. ", "Again and again I called out for Midori from the dead centre of this place that was no place. "From Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. Together, they attempt to assemble a "phone" that E.T. Ending an entire book in the middle of a sentence is a bold and playful choice. thought Archie. Over the course of the movie, he sees evidence that the world can be a pretty horrible place. No way has yet been invented to say goodbye to them. 5. Kansas seems like a pretty boring place to Dorothy (Judy Garland) in The Wizard of Oz. After playing for a few moments, Andy hops in his car and drives away. And they can kiss my sharries. She knew firsthand the deleterious effects of that lack of demand. please." Jay Gatsby, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald "Well, good-by." God, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams "Oh dear, I hadn't thought of that." Hamlet, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare A Tale of Two Cities , Charles Dickens. Holden Caulfield would scoff at the idea, but hes served ably as the patron saint of disaffected teens for almost 70 years. ", "And then, while the pretty brunette girl finished singing her verse, he buzzed me through like I was someone who mattered. Scholars of Elizabethan drama believe that William Shakespeare wrote at least 38 plays between 1590 and 1612. He watched it scurry away, over his hand. And us so happy. . Although two centuries have passed since Dr. Victor Frankenstein turned loose into the world a depraved wretch, his creatures plaintive cry still moves anyone who has a beating heart. I took one more glance over my past life, then turned to the future. "The cults of the famous and the dead" is such a punchy last line, it could just as well serve as the book's subtitle. In the end, though, he puts her on a plane to safety. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, What, he asks himself, must he tell his 7-year-old son before hes carried away to imperishability? 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