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?

or indeed, in Les Miserables =)

Yes, Hugo's les miserables outdoes the Russians in terms of its misery. Particularly in the first half of the book.

And his songs are better too.

The last two lines from Patrick Shaw-Stewart's poem 'Achilles in the Trenches'.
^Stand in the trench, Achilles,
Flame-capped, and shout for me^.
Always makes me cry, I think it's the terrible loneliness of the soldier knowing he is going to his death

Does anyone remember badger's parting gift? It's a children's book about death, I cry just picturing the front cover!

The worst children's book about death is the mog one traumatised me I wouldn't let the kids have it

Love, like starlight, never dies

Which book is the starlight quote from?

Clawdry I believe it's No Matter What

Sorry, Clawdy

Thanks, I thought it sounded familiar, will seek the book out!

Just sweeping this lovely thread into what we're reading - shout if that's a problem, OP!

Thanks Sorcha - I'm the op, just have a new Outlander username.

The Velveteen Rabbit gets me every time.

Ladywire I was going to say "always" too... wah 😢

From The Book Thief

His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say "I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come." Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places.

When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time — the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers.

MadMags that is a heart breaking one. Made me think of my FIL straight away

(Teenage boy looking for & finding her mum among dead bodies in the aftermath of a terrorist attack)

I knew my mother’s feet, her clothes, her two-tone black and white shoes - and long after I was sure of it I made myself stand in their midst, folded deep inside myself like a sick pigeon with its eyes closed.”

That was from The Goldfinch.

Soooooo many to chose from - Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe), Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) and countless others - but a more modern one is this

"And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect piece of our forever."

Breaking Dawn (Stephenie Meyer)

'There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. ... There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set.'

From John Green Fault in Our Stars, read just after I lost a friend from cancer. I find a lot of his work has very poinient lines.

'No more stories' at the end of Carla Banks' The Forest of Souls. It doesn't sound much - but in the context, it had me weeping buckets.

efc he does like a weepy does John Green! TFIOS is a great book.

Lots and lots could have me howling....including some of the quotes here.

The last book I cried at though was the last Dragon book from Cressida Cowell. The dragons have become a myth and Hiccup is an old man. Toothless still visits but less and less these days. Hiccup knows that when he next visits it will be the last time they see one another as he is old and will die soon.

God I love the Dragon books....Cressida Cowell is amazing.