Most heartbreaking lines from a book ever...

Wuthering Height every time. The bit where Cathy tells Ellen it would degrade her to marry Heathcliff and he overhears. But then he misses the important part.
My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.
Also the scene where he comes to her death bed and she tells him that he and Edgar have killed her
I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

Could put the whole book on. Need to reread.

I need a HP reread soon I think

I'd apologise, but I'm not sorry ... it took me years before it actually really hit me that he'd grown up without even a photograph of his parents but now that it has, I can't forget it.

melj I appear to have something in my eye sniff

I have so many from Harry Potter but the most heartbreaking for me is from Philosopher's Stone when Harry sees his family in the Mirror of Erised for the first time.

Mainly because it only hit me recently that this was literally the first time Harry's seen his parents since they died and he was a baby when that happened so doesn't have any real memory of what they looked like or sounded like. He has grown up never having had a photo or anything to remind him of his parents ... so much so that he literally doesn't recognise his parents when he sees them for the first time.

Harry was so close to the mirror now that his nose was nearly touching that of his reflection.

"Mum?" he whispered. "Dad?"

They just looked at him, smiling. And slowly, Harry looked into the faces of the other people in the mirror and saw other pairs of green eyes like his, other noses like his, even a little old man who looked as though he had Harry's knobbly knees - Harry was looking at his family, for the first time in his life.

Ralph Steadman's graphic novel of the life of da Vinci, on the last page, in grey on black: I HEARD AND SAW NOTHING FURTHER. THEREFORE THERE IS NOTHING. NOW I AM FORSAKEN.

PutABirdOnIt

Your post below so made me teary!

From 'Letter to D: a love story' by Andre Gorz.

The book comprises of a letter written to the author's dying wife. It's hard to pick out the most heartbreaking lines as it's not a work of fiction and the entire slim volume is heartbreaking.

This is the most-quoted line, though.

You′re 82 years old. You′ve shrunk six centimetres, you only weigh 45 kilos yet you′re still beautiful, graceful and desirable.

I want to read this book now.

@blackadderapants that one just broke me 😢

Some tearjerkers here! Loved the Pullman quotations. I'd like to add Jodi Picoult 'if you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?' (19 Minutes). Beautiful. And, another that broke my heart (because it made me aware of what women have to struggle with) I came across at the start of a novel by Kerry Postle called The Artist's Muse. 'woman is soulless and possesses neither ego nor individuality, personality nor freedom, character nor will' (the quotation explains the story she tells.) Devastating.

Lots and lots could have me howling....including some of the quotes here.

The last book I cried at though was the last Dragon book from Cressida Cowell. The dragons have become a myth and Hiccup is an old man. Toothless still visits but less and less these days. Hiccup knows that when he next visits it will be the last time they see one another as he is old and will die soon.

God I love the Dragon books....Cressida Cowell is amazing.

efc he does like a weepy does John Green! TFIOS is a great book.

'No more stories' at the end of Carla Banks' The Forest of Souls. It doesn't sound much - but in the context, it had me weeping buckets.

'There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. ... There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set.'

From John Green Fault in Our Stars, read just after I lost a friend from cancer. I find a lot of his work has very poinient lines.

Soooooo many to chose from - Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe), Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) and countless others - but a more modern one is this

"And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect piece of our forever."

Breaking Dawn (Stephenie Meyer)

That was from The Goldfinch.

(Teenage boy looking for & finding her mum among dead bodies in the aftermath of a terrorist attack)

I knew my mother’s feet, her clothes, her two-tone black and white shoes - and long after I was sure of it I made myself stand in their midst, folded deep inside myself like a sick pigeon with its eyes closed.”

MadMags that is a heart breaking one. Made me think of my FIL straight away

When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time — the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers.

From The Book Thief

His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say "I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come." Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places.

Ladywire I was going to say "always" too... wah 😢

The Velveteen Rabbit gets me every time.

Thanks Sorcha - I'm the op, just have a new Outlander username.

Thanks, I thought it sounded familiar, will seek the book out!