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?

Mars The Book Thief destroyed me.

"Rudi!"

Oh my goodness. Bawling here. I don't remember a particular quote but reading the end of My Sisters Keeper broke me. I was sat on a beach, sobbing.

His Dark Materials is full of them. The last chapter of the Amber Spyglass particularly...

"And on the breast where she took her first breath, XXXX quietly drew her last. With no more farewell than a loving look and a little sigh"

Read the thread now. Whitehorses- you beat me to it and have a better memory.......!

It's not a particular line but there is a section in John Grisham's 'The Confession' where the mother of an executed young man washes his body and dresses him and it's so heart-wrenching I have never been able to forget it.

Isabelle yours is heartbreaking because it's true. I wasn't really expecting anything quite so sad. How can people be so awful to each other?

I’m crying so much I can’t do the bloody ironing!

Jojo Moyes "The girl you left behind" when you realise that they found each other and ran away! The only book I have ever cried at.

Mine has no words. The sudden stop at the end of Anne Frank's diary where her words are gone..

So. Shocking...

I cried at that too Marvellous I have bought it to read again but it was just so heart breaking. The terror Anne and all the other poor people would have felt just defies belief.

"Because we are too menny" from Jude the Obscure.

"the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.”

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - gets me every time

Mine is what I think is the last sentence in Lord of the Flies but I can't say it because it gives something away in the book and don't want to ruin it for anyone just in case they haven't read it. I cry every single time.

Actually I cry at lots but I learnt that quote for my exams years (and years) ago so it's always stuck.

Another one for Charlotte Grey. For the same reason. Finished it sat up in bed and remained there for about 10 mins just quietly blubbing.

'And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.'

Things don't tend to get to me, but I was shocked how upsetting I found reading Where The Wild Things Are was to my child. The last few pages had me welling up something dreadful, I can't even quite explain why.

There's a book called 'Before You Sleep' written by a father who lost his own son. It's in rhyming verse and each verse is about how much he loves his child and all the different things they could do together. The first time I read it to DD, I sobbed my way through the last few pages.

DD loves it and insisted on it every night for a week straight. I eventually managed to make my way through it without crying.

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TieGrr better avoid that one,sounds traumatising!

"She was waking up now, and everything would be all right. Papa would be waiting out in the hall."
Francie, in A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. Her father died the year before, and on her graduation day a year later, her aunt sends her a bunch of flowers and puts his note with it, as he asked her to do when he was dying. When Francie reads the note, just for a moment she thinks the last year has all been a bad dream, and he is still alive.

In Harry Potter the line that gets me is when Harry asks “Does it hurt?” about dying.

In Remains of the Day when the buttoned up, emotionally repressed butler realises that he has lost his chance of love.

The realisation was “such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow in me. Indeed - why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.”

I'll love you forever
I'll like you for always
As long as I'm living
My baby you'll be

Black Beauty -

A short time after this a cart with a dead horse in it passed our cab-stand. The head hung out of the cart-tail, the lifeless tongue was slowly dropping with blood; and the sunken eyes! but I can't speak of them, the sight was too dreadful. It was a chestnut horse with a long, thin neck. I saw a white streak down the forehead. I believe it was Ginger; I hoped it was, for then her troubles would be over. Oh! if men were more merciful they would shoot us before we came to such misery.

Would have posted HDM too, I'm reading again atm before the book of dust comes out.

This one was in the Ladybird book of the Happy Prince; I don't know the words in the full version.

"Two boys were under a bridge, huddled together to keep warm. A policeman saw them, and told them to go home. He did not know that they had no home to go to. They just went out, hand in hand, into the rain..."