# What are the LAST lines of the book(s) you've just finished? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 4, 2019, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-lines-of-the-book-s-youve-just-finished/828925 "2019-02-04T02:35:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-lines-of-the-book-s-youve-just-finished/828925/21 "2019-02-27T04:48:03Z")
“No man knows where the road leads,” she said. “You think there is a paradise?” “I think we have already found it.” ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-lines-of-the-book-s-youve-just-finished/828925/22 "2019-03-02T17:04:47Z")
“Of the enlisted men of 53-B, six survived the war. Of those, two have survived the peace. The price of the Climbers, and of victory, continues to be paid. Sometimes it seems Ulant came out better than we did.” — Glen Cook, _Passage at Arms_ That was a good reread. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-lines-of-the-book-s-youve-just-finished/828925/23 "2019-03-03T04:46:11Z")
_It was not, perhaps, a happy ending. But it was what they had, and so we shall leave them to it as we head on, ever on, toward the next, patiently waiting door._ - **In An Absent Dream** , Seanan McGuire ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-lines-of-the-book-s-youve-just-finished/828925/24 "2019-03-07T00:45:07Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > _It was not, perhaps, a happy ending. But it was what they had, and so we shall leave them to it as we head on, ever on, toward the next, patiently waiting door._ - **In An Absent Dream** , Seanan McGuire I’ve become quite a fan of her work. Have you read _Sparrow Hill Road_ or _The Girl in the Green Silk Gown_? Current last line: > [@](#): > > As the wearers of the saffron robe still meditate upon the Way of Light, and the girl who is named Murga visits the Temple daily, to place before her dark one in his shrine the only devotion he receives, of flowers. — _Lord of Light_, Roger Zelazny ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-lines-of-the-book-s-youve-just-finished/828925/25 "2019-03-23T15:09:57Z")
The screaming voice faded and then was gone as the big spaceship rushed up from Bor and out into space to end a nineteen-year war. — _The Galactic Rejects_, by andrew j. offutt Sidenote: Interesting. Apparently, his normal byline was to have his name in all lowercase. I wonder why. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2019, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-lines-of-the-book-s-youve-just-finished/828925/26 "2019-04-27T23:45:35Z")
“Together they draped the scarf of an ace pilot around Dustin’s neck.” — _White Wing_, Gordon Kendall ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2019, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-lines-of-the-book-s-youve-just-finished/828925/27 "2019-04-28T02:20:54Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > “His sacrifice for religion gained for him the lasting respect of the Catholic Church, and he carried with him into lifelong exile an air of royalty and honour.” > > I wouldn’t like to spoil by giving the name of the book. The author did a good job, I found it after a while. I have the book, but did not remember that last line, it IS kind of dense!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-lines-of-the-book-s-youve-just-finished/828925/28 "2019-05-17T03:26:07Z")
Then Coyote looked at me and his face lit up with a merry smile. “Of course it was the dragon, daughter of mine. Of course it was the dragon. Why else would it be?” – _Storm Cursed_, Patricia Briggs ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-lines-of-the-book-s-youve-just-finished/828925/29 "2019-05-17T04:04:45Z")
“I think, Watson, that if we drive to Baker Street… we shall just be in time for breakfast.” \*(The Man With The Twisted Lip) \* I love the fact that Holmes and Watson will recover from their harrowing all-nighter with The Full English Breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-lines-of-the-book-s-youve-just-finished/828925/30 "2019-05-17T23:21:40Z")
“In the current musical climate it sounded as corny as the Beatles’ “She Loves You”, but Thomas turned the sound up anyway and sang along, the miles unwinding under his tires.” ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-lines-of-the-book-s-youve-just-finished/828925/31 "2019-05-17T23:48:25Z")
“He wrested the world’s whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.” “Longitude” by Dava Sobel (1995 edition) ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-lines-of-the-book-s-youve-just-finished/828925/32 "2019-05-18T01:26:02Z")
“It didn’t, of course. And so it goes.” Dennis [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-lines-of-the-book-s-youve-just-finished/828925.md?page=1)