It'd be a glaring omission to not mention Fitzgerald's oft-quoted thesis about the American Dream. When the applause dies down, he asks, Are there any questions? Those of us staring at a Supreme Court now tipping away from womens reproductive rights probably have several questions. It's virtually impossible not to tear up in this touching, heartfelt moment. The movie's suggestion that power and corruption are inextricably connected certainly gave it resonance for audiences of that era. thought Archie. You can feel the rawness as soon as it starts, as a. "Oh, Jake, Brett said, we could have had such a damned good time together. Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. please." Jay Gatsby, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald "Well, good-by." God, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams "Oh dear, I hadn't thought of that." Hamlet, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare by Charles Dickens (1843). I'm so glad to be at home again! Everything about The Matrix is designed to make the viewer's head spin. 'You can trust me,' R.V. ", "And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea. Inglourious Basterds remains one of Quentin Tarantino's most celebrated films, and that is undoubtedly due to its satisfying third act. by J.D. He is attacked by planes circling the building, shooting at him. I carry a lot of scars. "What have you. ", "Yukiko's diarrhoea persisted through the twenty-sixth, and was a problem on the train to Tokyo. Marty asks if there are roads in the future, to which Doc (Christopher Lloyd) replies, "Roads? Given that Caddyshack is filled with undertones about prejudice of all stripes, Al's victory statement sends a message that a new day has dawned at Bushwood. "From Continental Drift by Russell Banks. ", "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. ", RELATED: 10 Most Iconic Shots In Goodfellas. The tales of the supernatural and the extraterrestrial. Play: Mixed 'Famous Last Lines' Quiz. He may have been a beast, but he was a beast with heart. 'Everything's ready. When we first meet 26-year-old Harry Rabbit Angstrom, he decides on a whim to run away from his wife and toddler. What, he asks himself, must he tell his 7-year-old son before hes carried away to imperishability? It's a last chance for a good first impression. "From In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. ", "Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye and sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for himand it was still hot. Even today, Chopins final image of sensuous natural beauty is deeply unsettling. Hamlet's dying 'The rest is silence,' is the perfect end of anything. ", "At that, as if it had been the signal he waited for, Newland Archer got up slowly and walked back alone to his hotel. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3) by. They spark interest by stating a hard truth that seemingly comes from deep within the narrator's (or writer's) soul. Salinger (From Nine Stories ). Best beautiful sum-up of the novel you just read, both in tone and in meaning, and possibly the most well-loved last line of all time: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. The point, driven home so forcefully in those five words, is that corruption is so deeply ingrained in the situation Jake is investigating that he's wasting his time trying to expose or change it. Im a man of my, 6. Shakespeare's plays and sonnets are some of the most quoted in all of literature. ", "She opened the door wide and let him into her life again. Toy Story 3 ends on a note that is both beautiful and sob-inducing. ", "I went on my way. ", "But the naming game involves only male names, because if it's a girl, Laila has already named her. The Catcher in the Rye , J.D. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925). I ran. ", Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells, "And so farewell from your little droog. The children cheered wildly. (Hamlet) "To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the . You can see in this novels last words how successfully Moore switches registers. Into this upper-crust club comes condo developer Al Czervik (Rodney Dangerfield). "From Oh What a Paradise It Seems by John Cheever. Theologically, the story is a gooey mess of New Age mysticism, but its emotionally effective because Sebold got Susies voice just right. In prose of striking clarity, Rev. 21 Amazing Last Lines From Literature That Will Make You Want To Read The Whole Book. We held each other. Most widely debated and surprising-yet-inevitable suicide-based ending ever: Then he went over and sat down on the unoccupied twin bed, looked at the girl, aimed the pistol, and fired a bullet through his right temple. ", RELATED: 10 Unpopular Opinions About E.T. ", "He turned away to give them time to pull themselves together; and waited, allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser in the distance. Tortured by loneliness, the monster ultimately flees to the North Pole, and the doctor dies in pursuit. Endings, as we all know, are important. His testimony, sealed with that line from King Lear, is enough to convert anyone to the power of great fiction. Odenigbo took her in his arms. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (2006). The Maltese Falcon has a plot that confuses a lot of viewers, at least on first viewing. ", "I'm fine. The father of the four March sisters is just a minor character in Louisa May Alcotts beloved Little Women (1868), but Geraldine Brooks put him at the center of her historical novel March, which won a Pulitzer Prize. The Usual Suspects ends with a callback in which Verbal provides a very telling quote: "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. ", "But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest a little boy and his Bear will always be playing. At the end, an attempt to kill the shark takes place. Interesting cinematography and engaging introductory scenes are vital to reel viewers into a film, but a final line is perhaps even more important. A stormy wind rattled the scrap-iron in the ruins, whistling and howling through the charred cavities of the windows. The first line was 'The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it.'. Egan's theme of using music and sounds to convey nostalgia is wrapped up neatly here, and she paints the characters' lives as cyclical, like the playing of a favorite record. Alices Adventures in Wonderland , Lewis Carroll. ", "The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. Rick speaks it later in the movie to bid Ilsa farewell and the odd, unsentimental phrase has come to be one of the most romantic . ", Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "Light falls through the window, falls onto me, into me. As the movie wraps up, Somerset, in voiceover, says, "Ernest Hemingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' ", "We sat there for a long time, till the crowd around us thinned, till the sun shifted and the light changed. Go on my son! Before moving to Washington, he edited the books section of the Christian Science Monitor in Boston. The great thing about this final line is that it finds Tony Stark doing something few superheroes ever do, which publicly identifying himself. 'Im a man of my'"From The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace. It is true that there is nothing like a blaze in the hearth to soothe the nerves and restore order to a house. We'll take any optimism we can get from curmudgeonly Franzen, regardless of whether or not it's meant in earnest (and in this case, it seems to be). At every turn, there are bribes, lies, cover-ups, and conspiracies. William Shakespeare is widely considered to be the greatest dramatist of all time. For generations of us, this is the first final line that knocked our booties off. She gets her wish when a tornado hits and whisks her off to the magical land of Oz, where she makes some hip new friends and has to contend with a wicked witch and her flying monkeys. ", The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera, "As I left China farther and farther behind, I looked out of the window and saw a great universe beyond the plane's silver wing. ", RELATED: 13 Best Shark Movies To Watch This Summer (That Aren't Jaws). Brody is, of course, being ironic. Angsty teens everywhere can relate to Holden's desire to quell his heightened emotions. ", Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak, "I wrote at the start that this was a record of hate, and walking there beside Henry towards the evening glass of beer, I found the one prayer that seemed to serve the winter mood: O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone forever. A Christmas Carol, Such is the effect of the last line of Eugenidess most recent novel, which seems in retrospect constructed to bring us directly to these three letters. Killer John Doe (Kevin Spacey) reveals that he cut off the head of protagonist Mills' pregnant wife and stuck it in a box. Shakespeare's Opening Lines: The Quiz If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it. OPTIONS: Show cue speeches Show full speeches # Act, Scene, Line (Click to see in context) Speech text: 1. ", A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal, Asne Seierstad, "It was then that I began to sit on my bed and stare out at the nibbling squirrels, and to make up powems from intense abstraction, hour after unmarked hour, imagination scarcely faltering once, rhythm hardly skipping a beat, while sisters called me, suns rose and fell, and the poems I made, which I never remembered, were the first and last of that time", "And presently, like a circling typhoon, the sounds of battle began to return. '", The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum, "A LAST NOTE FROM YOUR NARRATOR. Amen. A vague last line casts a shadow over the entire novel, whereas a powerful and poignant one will keep you wondering for weeks to come. "From Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. We're all gonna get laid!". Kong takes one of the planes down, but he ultimately loses his balance after being shot, leading him to fall to his death. 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