Title, I suppose. What’s one book that had a final line that disturbed you heavily? I realise this is very very hyper specific so I’ll also vary to books that disturbed you in general. But with final lines specifically. I’ll start:
“Someone should tell a blind man before setting him out that way.”
-Outer Dark, Cormac Mccarthy. This line just filled me with such a profound sense of despair and hopelessness.
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I don’t remember the exact final line but pretty much the last paragraphs from Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian
“He loved Big Brother.”
Stephen King gets a lot of shit for his endings, but *Pet Sematary* absolutely nails it.
>!’Darling,’ it said.!<
“I have no mouth, and I must scream.”
-Harlan Ellison, short story of the same title.
I won’t spoil it for anyone who wants to read it, but the final paragraph or so of *Tender is the Flesh* fucked me up for about three days.
I don’t remember the line, but The Snakes by Sadie Jones did not end like I thought it would and it shook me.
**Tender Is The Flesh** has a harrowing story from start to finish but the ending was something.
“Races condemned to one hundred years of solitude will never get a second opportunity on earth.” – One Hundred Years of Solitude
“I am haunted by humans” – The Book Thief
John E. Mack’s abduction
“All quiet on the western front”
Infinite Jest I suppose, because that’s when I had to accept just how much the author wasn’t going to tell me. I think I held out the book and shook it like an empty box, hoping some extra bits would fall out or a missing instruction sheet.
“They unlocked the door, even more slowly, and let Margot out.” (*All Summer In A Day*)
“A cup of tea?” asked Wendy in the silence.” (*The Veldt*)
Bradbury had some zingers
“P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.”
“And all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put humpty back together again.”
Camus, The Stranger
For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.
I am haunted by waters. Always shakes me back to reality when I think life is just boring and passing me by.