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?

Some tearjerkers here! Loved the Pullman quotations. I'd like to add Jodi Picoult 'if you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?' (19 Minutes). Beautiful. And, another that broke my heart (because it made me aware of what women have to struggle with) I came across at the start of a novel by Kerry Postle called The Artist's Muse. 'woman is soulless and possesses neither ego nor individuality, personality nor freedom, character nor will' (the quotation explains the story she tells.) Devastating.

@blackadderapants that one just broke me 😢

PutABirdOnIt

Your post below so made me teary!

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.

I want to read this book now.

Ralph Steadman's graphic novel of the life of da Vinci, on the last page, in grey on black: I HEARD AND SAW NOTHING FURTHER. THEREFORE THERE IS NOTHING. NOW I AM FORSAKEN.

I have so many from Harry Potter but the most heartbreaking for me is from Philosopher's Stone when Harry sees his family in the Mirror of Erised for the first time.

Mainly because it only hit me recently that this was literally the first time Harry's seen his parents since they died and he was a baby when that happened so doesn't have any real memory of what they looked like or sounded like. He has grown up never having had a photo or anything to remind him of his parents ... so much so that he literally doesn't recognise his parents when he sees them for the first time.

Harry was so close to the mirror now that his nose was nearly touching that of his reflection.

"Mum?" he whispered. "Dad?"

They just looked at him, smiling. And slowly, Harry looked into the faces of the other people in the mirror and saw other pairs of green eyes like his, other noses like his, even a little old man who looked as though he had Harry's knobbly knees - Harry was looking at his family, for the first time in his life.

melj I appear to have something in my eye sniff

I'd apologise, but I'm not sorry ... it took me years before it actually really hit me that he'd grown up without even a photograph of his parents but now that it has, I can't forget it.

I need a HP reread soon I think

Wuthering Height every time. The bit where Cathy tells Ellen it would degrade her to marry Heathcliff and he overhears. But then he misses the important part.
My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.
Also the scene where he comes to her death bed and she tells him that he and Edgar have killed her
I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

Could put the whole book on. Need to reread.