Books With Memorable Last Words

There's nothing better than a great ending to a great book. Someone recently sent me a Tiktok video where a user shared their favorite opening lines of books in order to convince you to read them. Inspired by that, I decided to show you the greatest book endings to convince you to read them.

Here they are:

*Minor Spoilers Ahead

As the Shadow Rises by. Katy Rose Pool

"And then it was just Pallas and Beru. And the god who lurked inside her. "Come," Pallas said, beckoning her toward the altar. "We have work to do."

Crescent City by. Sarah J. Maas

"I do not plan to," he said, fading into the space between realms, Hel a dark song beckoning him home. "Not when things are about to get so interesting."

The Cruel Prince by. Holly Black

"This is what you wanted, isn't it?" he asks. "What you sacrificed everything for. Go on. It's all yours."

A Tale of Two Cities by. Charles Dickens

"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."

My Brother Sam is Dead By. James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

"It will be, I am sure, a great history. Free of British domination, the nation has prospered and I along with it. Perhaps on some other anniversary of the United States somebody will read this and see what the cost has been. Father said, "In war the dead pay the debts of the living," and they have paid us well. But somehow, even fifty years later, I keep thinking that there might have been another way, besides war, to achieve the same end."

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by. V.E. Schwab

"So Addie says nothing of the new game, the new rules, the new battle that's begun. She only smiles, and sets the book back on its shelf. And follows him out into the dark."

Red Queen by. Victoria Aveyard

"Our shared memories flash before me, parading every second of our time together. But now our friendship is gone, replaced by the one thing we still have in common. Our hatred for Maven. I don't need to be a whisper to know we share a thought. I will kill him."

The Giver by. Lois Lowry

"Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo."

All the Blood and Ash endings (because Jennifer L. Armentrout always understands the assignment)

From Blood and Ash

“That damn dimple appeared in his right cheek and then in his left. Casteel Da’Neer, the Prince of Atlantia, smiled fully as he lifted our joined hands and said, “We go home to marry, my Princess.” A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Lower your swords,” she commanded, her chin lifting even as she lowered to one knee, even as a potent, helpless sort of rage drenched the space around her, one that carried the stench of a long-buried fear come to fruition. “And bow before the…before the last descendent of the most ancient ones, she who carries the blood of the King of the Gods within her. Bow before your new Queen.”

The Crown of Gilded Bones

“Make sure she knows that I am the Chosen, the One who is Blessed, and I carry the blood of the King of Gods in me. I am the Liessa to the wolven, the second daughter, the true heir, owed the crowns of Atlantia and Solis. I am the Queen of Flesh and Fire, and the gods’ guards ride with me. Tell the Blood Queen to prepare for war.”