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They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.
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literature
last-lines
retelling
historical-fiction
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John Champlin Gardner |
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"God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning. Surely, while we live we are not lost.
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war
fiction
death
hope
last-lines
the-long-green-shore
wwii
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John Hepworth |
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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last-sentence
last-lines
last-words
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Roald Dahl |
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All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination. And this one is Teddy's.
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imagination
heartwrenching
teddy-todd
alternate-universe
twist-ending
tearjerker
kate-atkinson
last-lines
heartbreaking
what-if
ending
sad
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Kate Atkinson |
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The morning weighs on my shoulders with the dreadful weight of hope and I take the blue envelope which Jacques has sent me and tear it slowly into many pieces, watching them dance in the wind, watching the wind carry them away. Yet, as I turn and begin walking toward the waiting people, the wind blows some of them back on me.
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hope
giovanni-s-room
james-baldwin
last-lines
sad
symbolism
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James Baldwin |