Comments on: Last words http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/07/last-words/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Sterling Editing » Written on the internet http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/07/last-words/comment-page-1/#comment-24290 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:51:13 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=6255#comment-24290 […] … and agent Miriam Goderich on last words. […]

]]> By: Words (and links) on the Week… | Sociable Ink http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/07/last-words/comment-page-1/#comment-24289 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:25:32 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=6255#comment-24289 […] a blog with a small collection of what they consider the best closing lines in literature, with even more making an appearance in the comments […]

]]> By: Gabrielle http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/07/last-words/comment-page-1/#comment-24252 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:39:05 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=6255#comment-24252 “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.”

~ A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

]]> By: Kate http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/07/last-words/comment-page-1/#comment-24201 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:04:49 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=6255#comment-24201 I was worried I’d live forever.
-Galveston, Nic Pizzolatto

]]> By: Pam Sheppard http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/07/last-words/comment-page-1/#comment-24179 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 03:34:35 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=6255#comment-24179 Is there anything better than to read the words that strangers hold firmly and fondly in memory?

Is there anything better than to know that books earn their inch on the shelf just for a handful of words?

]]> By: Jim Hamilton http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/07/last-words/comment-page-1/#comment-24173 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:47:35 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=6255#comment-24173 John: “Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.” (Rev 22:20–21)

Words of promise, hope, joy, faith, love, grace, truth.

Without which life is impossible.

Blessings!

Jim

]]> By: Gill Avila http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/07/last-words/comment-page-1/#comment-23972 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:53:20 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=6255#comment-23972 JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. “All is well.”

]]> By: Charlee Vale http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/07/last-words/comment-page-1/#comment-23970 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:04:04 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=6255#comment-23970 “Yes, I can see her almost perfectly in this cracked darkness.”

John Green, Paper Towns

It beautifully expresses the tone of the book and all of the lessons the characters have learned.

CV

]]> By: Donald Burks http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/07/last-words/comment-page-1/#comment-23969 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:42:02 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=6255#comment-23969 A book and author now out of fashion, but a genuine original:

“I never knew my father. My mother was an ape.”

ER Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

]]> By: Eric Christopherson http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/07/last-words/comment-page-1/#comment-23968 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:13:17 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=6255#comment-23968 “Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!” Dr. Seuss, from I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew.

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