People often make lists of the greatest opening lines in fiction, but closing lines really appeal to me. They're your final moments with a book and can help you remember and treasure it forever. The last weekend of the year seems an appropriate time to consider the final words of our favorite novels and short stories. Here are some that I'm especially fond of: The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." Middlemarch George Eliot "But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive, for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts, and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life and rest in unvisited tombs." Still Life With Woodpecker Tom Robbins "But I can and will remind you of two of the most important facts I know: (1) Everything is part of it. (2) It's never too late to have a
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