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28e22ab A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. writing beginning end creative-process storytelling Graham Greene
2625f5c When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side. humor last-page dark-side first finish end read know die Nora Ephron
3ce3e0f I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March) fresh-start start-over try-again beginnings new-leaf end Louisa May Alcott
3c9c52a It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you. courage affair breakdown celibacy celibate chaste enstrangement falling-in-love-with-a-beast final-decision lock-up love-affair mercilless michael-bassey-johnson padlock key breakup apart divorce parting single falling-in-love end cheating sea Michael Bassey Johnson
ada97dc End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take. life end path journey J.R.R. Tolkien
1f37d7b "Promise me you'll marry me. Not now. Someday. Because I need to know." Claire felt a flutter inside, like a bird trying to fly, and a rush of heat that made her dizzy. And something else, something fragile as a soap bubble, and just as beautiful. Joy, in the middle of all this horror and heartbreak. "Yes," she whispered back. "I promise." And she kissed him, and kissed him, and kissed him, while the sun came up and bathed Morganville in one last, shining day." love shane-collins end Rachel Caine
f226408 Go on till you come to the end; then stop. begin go-on wonderland beginning end stop hearts king Lewis Carroll
bb33e4b So the world ended. And the next one began. They were infinite. They were the beginning and the ending; they were eternity. infinity end eternity Sarah J. Maas
e5dd3f7 There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin. mourning time loss depression sorrow start ending beginning coincide initiate lead mark sign numb mourn empty passage show end space Robin Hobb
7a034b8 "Glaring at the Gasman, ter Borcht said, "Your time is coming to an end, you pathetic failure of an experiment. Vhat you say now is how you vill be remembered." Gazzy's blue eyes flashed. "Then you can remember me telling you to kiss my-" "Enough!" ter Borcht said." funny death cool-response gazzy-i-love-u good-guy badass end lol James Patterson
ca4e706 "All's well that ends well.' 'Assuming there's an end somewhere,' Aomame said. Tamaru formed some short creases near his mouth that were faintly reminiscent of a smile. 'There has to be an end somewhere. It's just that nothing's labeled "This is the end." Is the top rung of a ladder labeled "This is the last rung. Please don't step higher than this'?" Aomame shook her head. 'It's the same thing,' Tamaru said. Aomame said, 'If you use common sense and keep your eyes open, it becomes clear enough where the end is.' Tamaru nodded. 'And even if it doesn't' -- he made a falling gesture with his finger -- 'the end is right there." hopelessness suicide hope eyes-wide-open keep-going-keep-your-eyes-open ladder common-sense endings end Haruki Murakami
fefc112 Dans chaque fin, il y a un debut. end Libba Bray
2fd241a When the end comes, I will meet it raging. death end george r.r. martin
10be694 "That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is "supposed to be"...'Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else." present fate good future honesty past destiny life truth aside complete forgo meant not part section set survive to decide done finish discover over end path be forget dead Robin Hobb
06a0fac May you tear each other to bits, you damned hyenas, and the quicker the better. Let it be destroyed. Let it happen. Let it end, this cold insanity. hyenas tear end destruction insanity Jean Rhys
22ad072 Well, this is basically the end, so the answers should be in these next few pages. I doubt they will surprise you, but you never know. I don't know how smart or thick you are. You could be Albert Einstein for all I know, or some literary prizewinner, or maybe you're just middle of the road like me. answers middle-of-the-road pages smart end know surprise Markus Zusak
5041432 Fussing over food was important. It gave a shape to the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner; beginning, middle, end. breakfast middle daily-life dinner lunch end cooking food Robert Hellenga
4b795b6 It will never end. Till the world ends in the chaos of Ragnarok, we will fight for our women, for our land, and for our homes. Some Christians speak of peace, of the evil of war, and who does not want peace? But then some crazed warrior comes screaming his god's filthy name into your face and his only ambitions are to kill you, to rape your wife, to enslave your daughters, and take your home, and so you must fight. rape war world god enslave must ragnarok daughters face chaos christians wife take end home warrior peace kill fight evil name Bernard Cornwell
faf577b An answer is always a form of death. death end John Fowles
0b579c5 The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that everything must end, the music, ourselves, the moon, everything. That if you get to the heart of things you find sadness for ever and ever, everywhere; but a beautiful silver sadness, like a Christ face. future beauty past sadness music heart moon everywhere intense ourselves ever feeling deep silver ending end christ sad John Fowles
7b99d9f Well, that was the end of me, the real end. Two pound ten every Tuesday and a room of the Gray's Inn Road. Saved, rescued and with my place to hide in - what more did I want? I crept in and hid. The lid of the coffin shut down with a bang. Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone. No more pawings, no more pryings - leave me alone. happy love successful left-alone rescued room saved end wish hide coffin beautiful Jean Rhys
b7936d6 "The Sun Going South In late sunshine I wander troubled. Restless I wander in autumn sunlight. Too many changes, partings, and deaths. Doors have closed that were always open. Trees that held the sky up are cut down. So much that I alone remember! This creek runs dry among its stones. Souls of the dead, come drink this water! Come into this side valley with me, ursula-k-le-guin troubled end Ursula K. Le Guin
bdf22c0 Once upon a time the fairy tales begin. But then they end and often you don't know really what has happened, what was meant to happen, you only know what you've been told, what the words suggest. fairy-tales words suggest end Joyce Carol Oates
429e5af Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only way to stop the story from running away under its own momentum, often towards an ending no one wants. reading fiction life end stories Jeanette Winterson
5915692 The way you remember or dream about your loved ones - the ones who are gone - you can't stop their endings from jumping ahead of the rest of their stories. You don't get to choose the chronology of what you dream, or the order of events in which you remember someone. In your mind - in your dreams, in your memories - sometimes the story begins with the epilogue. thoughts relationships memories friends inspiration family death life love end memory nostalgia John Irving
0fbd180 "Furono trovati tra tutte quelle carcasse raccapriccianti due scheletri di cui uno teneva l'altro strettamente abbracciato. Uno di questi due scheletri, che era quello di una donna, aveva ancora qualche brandello di una veste la cui stoffa doveva essere stata bianca e intorno al collo una collana di adrezarach con un sacchettino di seta, ornato di vetri verdi, che era aperto e vuoto. Quegli oggetti avevano cosi poco valore che senza dubbio il boia non li aveva voluti. L'altro, che teneva questo primo scheletro strettamente abbracciato, era lo scheletro di un uomo. Fu notato che aveva la colonna vertebrale deviata, la testa nelle scapole, e una gamba piu corta dell'altra. Non aveva pero alcuna rottura di vertebre alla nuca, ed era evidente che non era stato impiccato. L'uomo al quale apparteneva era dunque andato la, e la vi era morto. Quando si cerco di staccarlo dallo scheletro che abbracciava, si disfece in polvere. " - Notre-Dame de Paris, V. Hugo" esmeralda finale notre-dame-de-paris polvere quasimodo fine ending end Victor Hugo
59846d7 As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation. responsibility freedom reality truth duties duty emancipation end obligation outcome responsibilities sever ties release Robin Hobb
27d2d34 Her failure didn't matter, because at least she'd been true to her impossible dream until the very end. dreams inspirational nothing-is-impossible trying-hard end failure Ruth Ozeki
49d4e9b That was the end of his driving.. That was the end of his walking free.. That was the end of his privacy.. And that was the end of his secret. terminal ill change life end disease normal Mitch Albom
68dd477 But I can sit here with my dwindling days and look at what I think is important in life. I have both the time - and the reason - to do that. ill time reason life important think end dying Mitch Albom
f5757dc Is this what comes at the end, I wondered? Maybe death is the great equaliser, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another. equaliser empathy shed feel tear stranger equal end Mitch Albom
9219d1d Up to a decade or two ago, the system production-nature (man's productive-exploitative relationship with nature and its resources) was perceived as a constant, whereas everybody was busy imagining different forms of the social organization of production and commerce (Fascism or Communism as alternatives to liberal capitalism); today, as Fredric Jameson perspicaciously remarked, nobody seriously considers possible alternatives to capitalism any longer, whereas popular imagination is persecuted by the visions of the forthcoming 'breakdown of nature', of the stoppage of all life on earth - it seems easier to imagine the 'end of the world' than a far more modest change in the mode of production, as if liberal capitalism is the 'real' that will somehow survive even under conditions of a global ecological catastrophe. nature world humanity catastrophe ecological global liberal end exploitation Slavoj Žižek
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