Last Lines of Books (I Didn't Read)
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Skipping to the end on your behalf.
We're together, and everything will be fine.
December 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
We're together, and everything will be fine.
"Merry Christmas, Steve."
December 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Merry Christmas, Steve."
Here the light is warm and the ground is soft, and in my own private imagination I'm sitting next to him, leaning back against a cottonwood tree with my head on his shoulder and the sun on our faces, and I listen to the message that he left for me when he was alone and I was asleep.
December 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Here the light is warm and the ground is soft, and in my own private imagination I'm sitting next to him, leaning back against a cottonwood tree with my head on his shoulder and the sun on our faces, and I listen to the message that he left for me when he was alone and I was asleep.
But that would be a lie, and there have been too many lies for too long.
December 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
But that would be a lie, and there have been too many lies for too long.
What does begin to matter are the things in life that are free - things like love, respect, and integrity - and no amount of money can buy you those.
December 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
What does begin to matter are the things in life that are free - things like love, respect, and integrity - and no amount of money can buy you those.
I'm not sure how I would make it to Atlanta, but I had to get the fuck out of here.
December 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I'm not sure how I would make it to Atlanta, but I had to get the fuck out of here.
"For some sick reason I enjoyed it."
December 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
"For some sick reason I enjoyed it."
I start the engine and drive away...toward Manchester, and my future.
December 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I start the engine and drive away...toward Manchester, and my future.
Tell me a story.
December 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Tell me a story.
And no matter what happened, each autumn and winter, they worked to
pass this dark pleasure of the soil into the delicate light of a dining room, to a customer who knew nothing at all.
pass this dark pleasure of the soil into the delicate light of a dining room, to a customer who knew nothing at all.
December 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
And no matter what happened, each autumn and winter, they worked to
pass this dark pleasure of the soil into the delicate light of a dining room, to a customer who knew nothing at all.
pass this dark pleasure of the soil into the delicate light of a dining room, to a customer who knew nothing at all.
I'm not returning home.
December 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I'm not returning home.
That was how she always made it through the mystery of what came next.
December 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
That was how she always made it through the mystery of what came next.
We have a world to love and a sisterhood to expand, and we're just the girls for the job.
December 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
We have a world to love and a sisterhood to expand, and we're just the girls for the job.
I listened as the sirens got closer, louder - I lost myself in the bark of Ollie's pistol - and when he fell beside me, I thought about gardens and guns and death everything - waiting to wake up.
December 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I listened as the sirens got closer, louder - I lost myself in the bark of Ollie's pistol - and when he fell beside me, I thought about gardens and guns and death everything - waiting to wake up.
"Great name for a book."
December 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
"Great name for a book."
Hers was much nicer.
December 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Hers was much nicer.
I don't need the path anymore.
December 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I don't need the path anymore.
As Langston Hughes said, let us birth a new America, one that becomes "the dream the dreamers dreamed...that great strong land of love."
December 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
As Langston Hughes said, let us birth a new America, one that becomes "the dream the dreamers dreamed...that great strong land of love."
"For killing the guys who killed my parents."
December 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"For killing the guys who killed my parents."
Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you have to be average.
December 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you have to be average.
"'People like us'?" she asked.
December 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"'People like us'?" she asked.