Most heartbreaking lines from a book ever...

""Oh, Nangilima! Yes, Jonatan, yes - I see the light! I see the light!" - The Brothers Lionheart. Man, I sobbed reading that one out to DD (in a muffled sort of way).

Nobody came. Gatsby's funeral.

Jude the obscure
'Done because we are too menny'
I didn't see it coming at all and I'm not ashamed to say I punished the boom by not reading then end for a long while.

I haven't read any of these books and I'm still crying.

Oh, Losgann I absolutely love His Dark Materials, and have read them many times, but the end is so so bittersweet.

There is a quote from a previous thread like this, something like 'he went to the dance and no one spoke to him and he spoke to no one'.

Any ideas what it's from?

Haven't bought it yet divergent but yeah so excited to read!

I can hardly bear to read the end of The Amber Spyglass because I know what's coming!

"I will love you forever; whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead, I'll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again..."

"I'll be looking for you, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you...We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pin trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams...And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won't just be able to take one, they'll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight..."

They lay side by side, hand in hand, looking at the sky.”

The death of Hamlet:

HORATIO
Now cracks a noble heart.—Good night, sweet prince,
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest...

EvilDoctor I think it will be fine. I've used it with a Y6 class who were captivated by it. It's an amazing book.

Edith my DD 10 is doing World War II for her topic. Would this be a good book for her? She's read When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit.

Also King Lear at the end:

Kent. I have a journey, sir, shortly to go;
My master calls me, I must not say no.

His master was Lear who is dead after a heartbreaking descent into madness

Don't have the exact quote but Animal Farm George Orwell

(SPOILER COMING UP - this whole thread should have a spoiler alert in the title I fear)

That bit at the end where lovely loyal hardworking Boxer is taken away to the "vet" and "horse slaughterer" is written on the side of the van.

Aw! No! Lovely Boxer! Tears and more tears.

The funeral scene in my sister Jodie always makes me cry in a really ugly way.

"Thank God" from A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

The character who says it is a married woman and the mother of a little boy called John. She also has a lover she is obsessed with called John. The boy is killed in a hunting accident and this is how she receives the news:

What is it, Jock? Tell me quickly, I’m scared. It’s nothing awful is it?”

“I’m afraid it is. There’s been a very serious accident.”

“John?”

“Yes.”

“Dead?”

He nodded.
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She sat down on a hard little Empire chair against the wall, perfectly still with her hands folded in her lap, like a small well-brought-up child introduced into a room full of grown-ups. She said, “Tell me what happened? Why do you know about it first?”^

“I’ve been down at Hetton since the week-end.”

“Hetton?”

“Don’t you remember? John was going hunting today.” She frowned, not at once taking in what he was saying. “John… John Andrew… I… Oh thank God…” Then she burst into tears.

I know it's fiction and unrealistic crap written by a man. But it's so heartbreaking that a mother could say that. Upsets me every time. And actually the film with Kristen Scott Thomas (unusually) is a very good adaptation of the book and this scene is done beautifully.

I read Scott Turow's Law's of our Fathers when I was just coming out of a painful breakup and the lines:

"Who will love me for myself? Whose love will let me know myself?"

had me bawling.

As summed up in the last line of Larkin's poem An Arundel Tomb -

What will survive of us is love.

An incredible, moving image, Edith.

The vast majority of the lines quoted on this thread are moving and memorable because they reaffirm the only true value in life, which is love.

From "Erica's Story" by Ruth Vander Zee and Roberto Innocenti. A couple along with their baby are being transported to a death camp, maybe Auschwitz. The story is narrated by Erica, the baby in the story, now an old lady. She describes how, in an attempt to save her baby's life, the mother throws her from the moving train.
"On her way to death, my mother threw me to life." is the line that makes me cry.
It's a picture book, aimed at older children, beautifully written, with stunning illustrations.

MrsFionaCharming

I haven't read that book or seen the film but I lost a very close friend very recently and the only person I want to chat to about it is her! Completely relate to that.

“The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters’ death with was Augustus Waters”

From the Fault in Our Stars.

For the most part I found it a bit cheesy and overly sentimental, but having lost a dear friend a few months before that line stood out as so incredibly true and honest.

I read Goodbye Mog about a month after we'd had to have our elderly cat put to sleep, cue ugly sobbing in the library!

First story I read that made me cry was The Nightingale and the Rose. Can't recall what age I was, possibly 10. Sobbed so much I couldn't breathe.

Can't get the quote because I have ever read it again. Not able. Over 30 years later!!

But the part I recall with most sadness was where the nightingale lifeblood (Think it was described as that) was leaving her and she sang.