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?

"And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck."

"And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the mussel of it close to the back of Lennie’s head. The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger. The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again. Lennie jarred, and then settled slowly forward to the sand, and he lay without quivering."

(both from the same book)

But now that I am old and grey
My dancing nights are done
I've chosen you, great grandchild
To take my place, so come ...

Mine is from “the twelve”. I haven’t for the exact quote to hand, but a mother watches her child being killed and runs towards death. The line says “ the definition of hell is to live one second longer than your child”

Not a quote but as PP said, the end of My Sister's keeper made me snotty cry and I had to go get a cuddle. Same with Dobby, I'm still too mad about that.

It took me a fair few goes to get past the opening credits of The boy in the striped pajamas after reading the book, not sure I'll deal with Charlotte Grey.

'Bring me the two most precious things in the city,'said God to one of his angels; and the angel brought him the leaden heart and the dead bird.

@mydogmate it absolutely amazing isn't it?

I agree that " done because we are too menny" is the most awful, heart wrenching line in any book ever. It's a line that gets into your brain even if you never want to remember it again.

MongerTruffle I was just about to write the same quotes, along with the description of Candy's dog

Jacques. Yes it is! I’ve got the omnibus edition which includes all the other novels that run into each other. I read it so much I had to buy a new copy!!

Always gets me...

“Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'

'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit.

'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.'

'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?'

'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

And if we're talking Hardy, it's the end of Tess that gets me:

"It is as it should be, she murmured. "Angel, I am almost glad—yes, glad! This happiness could not have lasted. It was too much. I have had enough; and now I shall not live for you to despise me!"

Oh Hodge that's beautiful!
Just reminds me of dd's threadbare,much loved mouse.

TheHodgeoftheHedge Such a beautiful book.

I’m intrigued now. His dark materials trilogy, what are the names of the 3 books?

DS has just read that....broke his poor little heart.

The Northern Lights
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass

chicken that really resonates with me, my dd (7) has ds and struggles to communicate.
Omg the Velveteen Rabbit
I had read Charlotte Gray, but I think I had blocked a lot of it out.
Drinkswine the books are The Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass, I have read them many times but properly came to pieces reading them to dd1, especially that bit in the op.

Northern Lights
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass

By Philip Pullman

His Dark Materials are Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. Brilliant books.

Mine is from The Darkest Road by Guy Gavriel Kay. A book I cry most of the way through and I have read it at least 10 times.

"It was a scream of anguish and rage, of terror and blinding agony, torn whole and bleeding from a tortured soul"

@chickensaresafehere

It's a wonderful, classic children's book. I still read it as an adult and it gets me every time. Everyone should read it.

I had that Velveteen Rabbit reading at my (second) wedding as we were getting on a bit and a bit rubbed at the edges.
Not a dry eye..

Hodge added it to dd's Christmas list.
quirky the book's called Schuyler's Monster by Robert Rummel-Hudson,well worth a read.

Thanks

The Bronze Horseman-
Good-bye, my moonsong and my breath, my white nights and golden days, my fresh water and my fire. Good-bye, and may you find a better life, find comfort again and your breathless smile, and when your beloved face lights up once more at the Western sunrise, be sure what I felt for you was not in vain. Good-bye and have faith, my Tatiana.

Most beautiful book i have ever read and my god it broke me

OP, that’s a great one. I could hardly get the words out when I read it aloud to my sons.

Amos Diggory: Let me through, LET ME THROUGH! Let me through, THAT’S MY SON! That’s my boy! (Sobbing and frantic) IT’S MY BOY!