What are your favorite final sentences from books? Is there a book that you liked specially because of its last sentence? Or a book, perhaps that you didn’t like but still remember simply because of the last line?

Of course, with last week’s Booking Through Thursday about favorite first sentences, you knew that this one would be coming around this week! I don’t really remember things like this well. They say, the last sentences of a book sell the author’s next book. I’ve never been one to “cheat” and read the last page first. I always thought that was a waste of my time. When I got to the end, it would be worth it.

I looked up some last sentences though and in no particular order, here are some of them from my favorite books:

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

And that is the very end of the adventure of the wardrobe. But if the Professor was right it was only the beginning of the adventures of Narnia.

The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

And he went on, and there was yellow light, and fire within; and the evening meal was ready, and he was expected. And Rose drew him in, and set him in his chair, and put little Elanor upon his lap. He drew a deep breath. “Well, I’m back,” he said.

I think one of my favorite “Harry Potter” books is The Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling:

As Hagrid had said, what would come, would come….and he would have to meet it when it did.

And from my favorite kid’s book series, If You Give a Moose a Muffin by Laura Numeroff:

And if you give him some jam, chances are, he’ll ask for a muffin to go with it.