Most heartbreaking lines from a book ever...

[iamdivergent]

Mine has to be this one...

Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.

I cried so hard the three times I've read the book (I haven't put the name of the book in case of spoilers) - what lines got to you?

Losgann actual goosebumps here.

Picked up La Belle Sauvage this morning. Can't wait to get started.

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

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?

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

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

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.

Nobody came. Gatsby's funeral.

I have The Great Gatsby to read - is it good?

HDM is definitely bittersweet

""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).

The girl sat staring into the fire, immersed in her sad memories. ‘They crucified him’, she said quietly.

Nevil Shute’s A Town Like Alice

"And one of the giants is ME!"

Oh Bertrand

Makes me sob everytime

I said earlier that book once were giants and doras eggs i had to stop reading to the children

And baby loves...

So glad to find another Giants person. My children used to insist on it to see if I could get through it - sadistic little buggers. Did you have The Big Big Sea as well?

I sob my way through Once There were Giants too. I'm a wreck by the end of it.

And I was never even able to let Love You Forever into the house because I was such a sobbing mess when I flicked through it in the shop.

There's a book that I think might be by the same author as Once There were Giants, called Grandma's Bill (I think that's it anyway). It's about a little boy who is named after his deceased granda and his granny is telling him about her Bill and how he lives in her heart now. It's very heart wrenching too.

We refer to Alan Bennet as Bloody Alan Bloody Bennett in this house after dd became obsessed with him and did one of his monologues in every drama show she did for ages. Dark glasses needed every time. Bloody Martin Bloody Waddell is in the same category.

Really shouldn't be reading this in the hairdressers

No i didnt bertrand

Was it another weepy

@darumafan

Anyone else for Riddley Walker? "O what we ben! And what we come to. How cud any 1 not want to get that shyning Power back from time back way back?"

From Sleepers about 4 boys who were friends and who were sent to a boys’ home in the 60s and were physically and sexually abused:

^The night and the streets were ours and the future lay sparkling ahead.
And we thought we would know each other forever.^

Dd2 made me read Giants tonight tears again!

That last paragraph of Anne Tyler's novel, The Amateur Marriage. Michael is walking towards the house he and his first wife, long dead, once lived in. He imagines her filling the bird feeder in the front garden .
" And when he came into view she would straighten, shading her eyes with one hand. "Is it you?" she would ask. "It's you! It's really and truly you! " she would cry, and her face would light up with joy.
He began to walk faster, hurrying towards the bend.

Rufus- TheBig Big Sea is about a little girl going for a moonlight walk on the beach with her mum then going home and eating toast. Nothing weepy there, surely? However, when written by Martin Waddell..........

Oooh hes a git inni