Most heartbreaking lines from a book ever...

The House At Pooh Corner gets me every time:-

"Still with his eyes on the world Christopher Robin put out a hand and felt Pooh's paw. "Pooh," said Christopher Robin earnestly, "if Iif I'm not quite" he stopped and tried again-- "Pooh, whatever happens, you will understand, won't you?" "Understand what?" "Oh, nothing." He laughed and jumped to his feet. "Come on!" "Where?" said Pooh. "Anywhere." said Christopher Robin.

So, they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.”

^"It had been more than five years now. He did not think about
his son very much anymore, and only recently he had removed
the photograph of his wife from the wall. Every once in a while,
he would suddenly feel what it had been like to hold the three year old
boy in his arms"^

Paul Auster - the New york Trilogy.

Isabelle, definitely Charlotte Grey and those little boys, it haunts me the images it gave me.

There is another bit in Charlotte Gray where they are unloading the prisoners from the trains into the concentration camp and there is a baby in a crib and everyone passes the crib along the line, presumably to be handed over to the guards. That bit broke me too.

I've cried about five times today already just thinking of that book, and the Holocaust in general, and I have tormented my five year old (his school is closed today) kissing him and sniffing his head. In fact, excuse me, I'm off to sniff his hair again.

TieGrrr yes! We have this one too and I dread being asked to read it. I just can't get through it without sobbing.

All took leave from life in the manner which most suited them. Some praying, some deliberately drunk, others lustfully intoxicated for the last time. But the mothers stayed up to prepare the food for the journey with tender care, and washed their children and packed their luggage; and at dawn the barbed wire was full of children's washing hung out in the wind to dry. Nor did they forget the diapers, the toys, the cushions and the hundreds other small things which mothers remember and which children always need. Would you not do the same? If you and your child were going to die tomorrow, would you not give him to eat today?”
― Primo Levi, If this is a man

“I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.”

Little Women

Hopefully this line is in the book but I've only seen the film.

"I'll be your friend until time stops". Kester Woodeaves to Prue Sarn in Precious Bane.

Mine's from The Sportswriter by Richard Ford:

'Only suddenly, then, you are out of itthat film, that skin of lifeas when you were a kid. And you think: this must've been the way it was once in my life, though you didn't know it then, and don't really even remember it--a feeling of wind on your cheeks and your arms, of being released, let loose, of being the light-floater. And since that is not how it has been for a long time, you want, this time, to make it last, this glistening one moment, this cool air, this new living, so that you can preserve a feeling of it, inasmuch as when it comes again it may just be too late. You may just be too old. And in truth, of course, this may be the last time that you will ever feel this way again.”

This one was in the Ladybird book of the Happy Prince; I don't know the words in the full version.

"Two boys were under a bridge, huddled together to keep warm. A policeman saw them, and told them to go home. He did not know that they had no home to go to. They just went out, hand in hand, into the rain..."

Black Beauty -

A short time after this a cart with a dead horse in it passed our cab-stand. The head hung out of the cart-tail, the lifeless tongue was slowly dropping with blood; and the sunken eyes! but I can't speak of them, the sight was too dreadful. It was a chestnut horse with a long, thin neck. I saw a white streak down the forehead. I believe it was Ginger; I hoped it was, for then her troubles would be over. Oh! if men were more merciful they would shoot us before we came to such misery.

Would have posted HDM too, I'm reading again atm before the book of dust comes out.

I'll love you forever
I'll like you for always
As long as I'm living
My baby you'll be

In Remains of the Day when the buttoned up, emotionally repressed butler realises that he has lost his chance of love.

The realisation was “such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow in me. Indeed - why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.”

In Harry Potter the line that gets me is when Harry asks “Does it hurt?” about dying.

"She was waking up now, and everything would be all right. Papa would be waiting out in the hall."
Francie, in A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. Her father died the year before, and on her graduation day a year later, her aunt sends her a bunch of flowers and puts his note with it, as he asked her to do when he was dying. When Francie reads the note, just for a moment she thinks the last year has all been a bad dream, and he is still alive.

TieGrr better avoid that one,sounds traumatising!

There's a book called 'Before You Sleep' written by a father who lost his own son. It's in rhyming verse and each verse is about how much he loves his child and all the different things they could do together. The first time I read it to DD, I sobbed my way through the last few pages.

DD loves it and insisted on it every night for a week straight. I eventually managed to make my way through it without crying.

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'And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.'

Things don't tend to get to me, but I was shocked how upsetting I found reading Where The Wild Things Are was to my child. The last few pages had me welling up something dreadful, I can't even quite explain why.

Another one for Charlotte Grey. For the same reason. Finished it sat up in bed and remained there for about 10 mins just quietly blubbing.

Mine is what I think is the last sentence in Lord of the Flies but I can't say it because it gives something away in the book and don't want to ruin it for anyone just in case they haven't read it. I cry every single time.

Actually I cry at lots but I learnt that quote for my exams years (and years) ago so it's always stuck.

"the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.”

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - gets me every time

"Because we are too menny" from Jude the Obscure.

Mine has no words. The sudden stop at the end of Anne Frank's diary where her words are gone..

So. Shocking...