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?

Mine's from The Sportswriter by Richard Ford:

'Only suddenly, then, you are out of itthat film, that skin of lifeas when you were a kid. And you think: this must've been the way it was once in my life, though you didn't know it then, and don't really even remember it--a feeling of wind on your cheeks and your arms, of being released, let loose, of being the light-floater. And since that is not how it has been for a long time, you want, this time, to make it last, this glistening one moment, this cool air, this new living, so that you can preserve a feeling of it, inasmuch as when it comes again it may just be too late. You may just be too old. And in truth, of course, this may be the last time that you will ever feel this way again.”

Hopefully this line is in the book but I've only seen the film.

"I'll be your friend until time stops". Kester Woodeaves to Prue Sarn in Precious Bane.

“I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.”

Little Women

All took leave from life in the manner which most suited them. Some praying, some deliberately drunk, others lustfully intoxicated for the last time. But the mothers stayed up to prepare the food for the journey with tender care, and washed their children and packed their luggage; and at dawn the barbed wire was full of children's washing hung out in the wind to dry. Nor did they forget the diapers, the toys, the cushions and the hundreds other small things which mothers remember and which children always need. Would you not do the same? If you and your child were going to die tomorrow, would you not give him to eat today?”
― Primo Levi, If this is a man

TieGrrr yes! We have this one too and I dread being asked to read it. I just can't get through it without sobbing.

There is another bit in Charlotte Gray where they are unloading the prisoners from the trains into the concentration camp and there is a baby in a crib and everyone passes the crib along the line, presumably to be handed over to the guards. That bit broke me too.

I've cried about five times today already just thinking of that book, and the Holocaust in general, and I have tormented my five year old (his school is closed today) kissing him and sniffing his head. In fact, excuse me, I'm off to sniff his hair again.

Isabelle, definitely Charlotte Grey and those little boys, it haunts me the images it gave me.

^"It had been more than five years now. He did not think about
his son very much anymore, and only recently he had removed
the photograph of his wife from the wall. Every once in a while,
he would suddenly feel what it had been like to hold the three year old
boy in his arms"^

Paul Auster - the New york Trilogy.

The House At Pooh Corner gets me every time:-

"Still with his eyes on the world Christopher Robin put out a hand and felt Pooh's paw. "Pooh," said Christopher Robin earnestly, "if Iif I'm not quite" he stopped and tried again-- "Pooh, whatever happens, you will understand, won't you?" "Understand what?" "Oh, nothing." He laughed and jumped to his feet. "Come on!" "Where?" said Pooh. "Anywhere." said Christopher Robin.

So, they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.”

Chooky that is so desperately sad but how true

treacle oh god

Running I've never read it but that ours me right off, I'm so sentimental!

'Because we are too menny'

😢😢😢

Oh my, that one by blackadderspants.
What a writer

“You think Okay, I get it, I'm prepared for the worst, but you hold out that small hope, see, and that's what fucks you up. That's what kills you.”

― Stephen King, Joy land

He is talking about that phone call you get, the one where you are waiting for a loved ones hospital results or its 11pm at night and not everyone is home yet

So many books to be honest, i don't generally cry at movies...but some books , some books i wish id never read

Still they shine in the evening skies, love, like starlight, never dies.
Debi gliori no matter what.
Yy to L.S and H in hdm.
Too many potter moments to mention but Hedwig in dh.
Many, many others

'done because we are too many'

Choccywoccyhooha

I came on this thread to post that exact quote.

The only line in a book I've ever cried at and I do every time without fail.

Running I can't read the end of The House at Pooh Corner to my DC without crying too much to finish it, and I have to hand it over to my DH while they're all

The first time I read Jude the Obscure I found that whole bit with the children too unbelievable to be affecting, but that was before I had DC - might be different if I read it again. Since I bloody cry at everything now Gogglebox every week

"But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice" I said. "He was the great love of her life, you know."

"Oh dulling," said my mother, sadly. "One always thinks that. Every, every time."

The Pursuit of Love
Nancy Mitford

Fgs you lot
I came on to post the Little Matchgirl quote, I’ve got a book with the most beautiful picture of the little girl being taken to heaven by her Mother that makes me well up every time I see it.
Also Dogger: ‘Then Bella did something very kind’
Absolutely floors me and I can’t actually read the book outloud anymore.

cold

I had to stop reading the children 'doras eggs' and 'once were giants' as i kept sobbing

Poor bloody dora

Lily? After all this time?

Always.

Jacques
“ the doctors who told her not to have any more children didn’t lie.** It killed her”
( I’ve paraphrased).* I’ve read that book so many times. It’s amazing.*

My daughter (10) has a chromosome disorder,that went undiagnosed for years.Her main disability being she cannot speak.When we were going through those awful first years of seeking an answer, I was recommended a book written by the father of a non verbal child & his struggles with her disability.In it he writes a letter to her & even now 6 years on it breaks my heart as it sums up my emotions then, & still now.

I'm sorry,
I'm sorry you went to bed crying tonight,on Christmas of all nights,because you wanted one thing & we wanted another,and none of us had the tools to communicate those things clearly to each other.We were stern with you,and when we closed your door,we left you crying with hurt & rage,and most of all I think,with frustration.
It ends with -
I'd give anything for you,Schuyler,anything at all to make you happy & to fix what's broken & to set you free in a world that you're equipped to live in.I'd burn down the whole world for you if it would change things. Instead,all I can say is that I'm sorry,dreadfully sorry.I love you so much my heart breaks for you every night.I know that doesn't help you,not one bit,but tonight it's all I have.