Favorite Last Lines

I love a book with a good last line. It's something I definitely aimed for in my novel. I just find it makes reading a story all the more satisfying, especially if the book is good already, to have that final line that makes you go, wow, and leaves you thinking. One of the best I can think of off-hand is from The Lovely Bones. But it's the type of last line where you need to read the whole story to really feel the impact of the words, so I won't quote it. Speaking of The Lovely Bones, I'm going to have to do a post on it soon because it's one of my favorites and I think destined to be a classic.

The one I'll share is pretty amazing- from another favorite, The Five People You Meet in Heaven (suddenly I'm sensing a theme...) by Mitch Albom. Like The Lovely Bones, it's a lot more meaningful when you read it as you finish the story, but it also stands on its own as a thought-provoking quote. The line eloquently restates the theme of the novel, which I wouldn't think of as a spoiler, but if you are the type that doesn't like any bit of a book given away then now is the time to LEAVE MY BLOG!! (hehe...never thought I'd say that!)

"That each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."

I'm baaack

Starting with this post I'm really, officially, ending my blog-neglect. I know you might not believe me, so come back again next week and see.

It's been a little while since we've been in Enchantia, so let's go, shall we? Well technically, this snippet isn't about actual Enchantia, just The Woods- but it's what makes that world possible:

My parents bought a very rich and eccentric environmentalist's house when he was ready for his retirement to Brazil. The house was just a normal, middle-class house, but there was 100 acres of woods in the back. He considered his purchase heroic, saving all those acres from the wretched chainsaw. My parents could never afford all those acres, so an agreement was made: the land was still his, and my parents were responsible for the upkeep. When he died, my parents inherited it, and a bunch of money (though just for upkeep and taxes, they explained, when I asked for some of it to fund my dream of horses and stables). They were giddy for weeks.