Last Lines of Books (I Didn't Read)

It was time to pick up my sister and niece so we could get back to Georgetown where we'd continue to enjoy this sweet season God had given us.

"We became wreckers to have the power of gods on Earth: choose what to save, and what to destroy..."

And every time, when she gets to your face, she looks as if she is about to speak.

Her last word on the matter was the rattling of wine bottles as she worked on stocking for that night's opening.

"I'm sure it's nothing."

The deep, mournful wail of the emergency siren filled the air.

Murder shall soon come to know.

Imua!

"You will be so happy and free, you'll sing."

He won that first faceoff, but I didn't care.

Suffused in the glow of those days to come, I switched off the living room light, pitching the room to blackness and seeing, at last, that I cast no shadows in the dark.

All of it mine, every last bit.

It turns out Harriet Rainee was right, and so was her medicine man - that beaded leather pouch worked like a charm.

I step off of the sidewalk, and I let it ring, just for a moment, before I finally answer, Hey, Mom.

I knot the thread and pull it tight.

"Everything beyond my wildest dreams."

Then she tied the second one and then she went round the car closing and the doors and paid in cash and drove out the timberyard doors with two and a half metres of gob plasterboard strapped on top of the roof of her car, illegally, slower now.

Oh, I will leave and she does not know it yet.

"What I think, nymph, is that if falling in love is folly, I'll gladly be the most foolish man in England."

This time they both connected.

And then they take Stella gently by the arms and lead her away.

After all, what a drab place this world would be without interesting gardens and uniquely fascinating plants and fungi.

Home.

When I open them, you are gone.

Your odds of success will increase if you eat.

Just let him hold her until the world slowly righted itself, and she could move on.

The flame was crackling and before long the heat of the room had enveloped him completely.

Best pals always,

Skeet

And, smiling, you say some words to yourself that no one else can hear.

"Now You See 'Em, Now You Don-uts."