A scene or a line which you remember

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upinaballoon · 02/06/2021 08:09

Without reaching for "Wuthering Heights" I remember that at the end of the book the narrator (Lockwood?) walks on the moor and he sees butterflies dancing or fluttering among the harebells and he cannot imagine an unquiet spirit lying in that earth. I think that's the gist of it. Corrrect me if I am way off the mark.

Please share a scene or a line from a book.

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upinaballoon · 02/06/2021 20:39

Is The Shell Seekers the one where the lady has a green dress?

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merryhouse · 02/06/2021 16:46

oh no... he is the image of his mother (Cadfael tells his friend)

And all the light went out of the day - I can't actually remember where this is from!

Nothing but stars, scattered across the blackness as though the creator had smashed the windscreen of his car and hadn't bothered to stop to sweep up the pieces. - opening of Pyramids, by the incomparable Pterry

AluckyEllie · 02/06/2021 16:13

In the shell seekers by Rosalind pilcher (it’s been a while since I read it but this always stuck with me) the main character had a wartime romance and he died in the allied landings. Many years later she is sitting in her garden and has a heart attack. She knows she is dying but then ‘he was coming. He was there.’ I just thought that was so beautiful, after all those years to hear the footsteps of the person you love most in the world, and they come to ‘escort you over.’

WhatsGoingOnHereThen · 02/06/2021 08:13

I always remember in the book One Day where the female character (Emma?)...

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Falls off her bike and is hit by a car and dies and it says something like

'amd everything she every thought and everything she ever knew was gone'

Given you've gone on such a journey of their lives/thoughts/feelings I was shocked. I just kept re-reading.

I sometimes think about it now, especially if I'm worrying about something, that all my worries will just die with me, so what's the point?

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