Most heartbreaking lines from a book ever...

Oh God, yes, the little Match Girl. Horrific.

Also from Polar Express (not as sad as some of the others, but makes me cry every time):

'At one time most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grown old the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe.'

Wah!

Mog was tired. She was dead tired…Mog thought, ‘I want to sleep for ever.’ And so she did.

I can't even bring myself to read the book. The blurb on Amazon makes me want to weep!

'There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood'

From the Kite Runner really gets to me.

'The matches glowed with a light that was brighter than the noon-day, and her grandmother had never appeared so large or so beautiful. She took the little girl in her arms, and they both flew upwards in brightness and joy far above the earth, where there was neither cold nor hunger nor pain, for they were with God'

From the Little Match Girl, I cannot read that story as it breaks my heart.

From Little Women:
As Beth had hoped, the `tide went out easily', and in the dark hour before dawn, on the bosom where she had drawn her first breath, she quietly drew her last, with no farewell but one loving look, one little sigh.

'Jacob took André's hand and found that there was already something in it – a tin soldier. André kissed Jacob's shorn head, the stubble tender on his lips. There was another room, another door, with bolts and rubber seals, over whose threshold the two boys, among many others, went through icy air, and disappeared.'

I haven't read the book but this made me cry.

^Only a few seconds of backup battery power remained. Then Jason would be gone.
"My only regret . . ." Jason continued. "My only regret . . . is that we will not . . . be able to discuss . . . the human equation any longer." Again, the machine paused, and then spoke his last words so softly that Fife had to strain to hear them.
"Go tell the Spartans . . ."^

The machine in question is a sentient tank, programmed to greater loyalty than any hound, more honour than any knight, more nobility than any human, that sacrificed glorious immortality in service of people who fear and despise it.

I read it when I need to remember I can cry.

Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman. A child less Jewish doctor, holds hands with a little boy as they are murdered by the fascists.

Sofiya Levinton felt the boy's body subside in her arms. Once again she dad fallen behind him. In mine shafts where the air becomes poisoned, it is always the little creatures, the birds and mice, that die first. This boy, wish his slight, bird-like body, had left before her.
I've become a mother,' she thought.
That was her last thought^.

Chapter 48.

I havent read any of the books mentioned but all very poignant and sad quotations

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.

The whole scene in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows where Harry is about to go meet Voldemort, and knows he's facing his own death but this bit in particular:

'You'll stay with me?'
'Until the very end,' said James.

This is a long one but gets me every single time - from the Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver:

“A mother's body remembers her babiesthe folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has its own entreaties to body and soul. It's the last one, though, that overtakes you. I can't dare say I loved the others less, but my first three were all babies at once, and motherhood dismayed me entirely. . . . That's how it is with the firstborn, no matter what kind of mother you arerich, poor, frazzled half to death or sweetly content. A first child is your own best food forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world.

But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that's love by a different name. She is the babe you hold in your arms for an hour after she's gone to sleep. If you put her down in the crib, she might wake up changed and fly away. So instead you rock by the window, drinking the light from her skin, breathing her exhaled dreams. Your heart bays to the double crescent moons of closed lashes on her cheeks. She's the one you can't put down.”

closes eyes".. I'm reading His dark materials for the first time! Hope I've forgotten the above before I get there in the books!
I can't think at the moment, but the final scenes from Tom's midnight garden always make me sniffle. I took DD for her 10th birthday to see an stage adaptation of it and oh my world, not a dry eye in the house!.
In fact I have something in my eye now!..

I cant get past the last chapter of Winnie the Pooh. Ive only had to read it twice, thank god I didnt have more kids.

Oh and recently I was howling at the death of Robert Webb's mother in How not to be a Boy

Came on to say the same one in ops quote.

My favourite characters, too.

I didn't even recognise the line, I am guessing this was when L.S died? It's been years since I've read them.

Yes the trilogy is pretty emotive.

Actually that line from 'His Dark Materials' always gets me too. Cry for ages ,and there is another point in the book between Lyra and Will where I sob too! ( Won't say which bit in case anyone is thinking of reading the trilogy).

Rhett Butler: My darling your such a child, you think by saying "I'm Sorry" all the past can be corrected

It is same line in book and film... Really made me cry.. The realisation that sometimes saying sorry would not be enough, was a hard lesson for a romantic dreaming 15yr old.

Since I was crying anyway I thought I might as well look it up:

'Jacob took André's hand and found that there was already something in it – a tin soldier. André kissed Jacob's shorn head, the stubble tender on his lips. There was another room, another door, with bolts and rubber seals, over whose threshold the two boys, among many others, went through icy air, and disappeared.'

I hope the fucking bastards who did this to real children in real life are burning in hell (although sadly I'm not religious).

The very last lines from I Capture the Castle always get me:
He said he would come back. Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.

That heartbreaking last line from Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close. "We would have been safe."

Can't remember the exact wording and cannot physically look at the book again as it's too heartbreaking (am welling up just typing this) but the bit in Charlotte Gray where the little boys are at the concentration camp.