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."