The End.

[ciroccoj]

OK, you know the Ten Starting Lines meme that went around a few months ago? I thought it might be cool to see how many ending lines people can figure out, from books that are not totally obscure.

1. But they never learned what it was that Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which had to do, for there was a gust of wind, and they were gone.
   
   
2. And it is there that they see the riselka, three men see a riselka, sitting on a rock beside the sunlit path, her long sea-green hair blowing back in the freshening breeze.
   
   
3. After today, he thought, the world will never be quite the same.
   
   
4. "This time, darling, we'll forgive you," Rosalind told her. "It is."
   
   
5. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God.
   
   
6. There's a rumour going around that the beautiful girl arriving today might be the queen they've been waiting for.
   
   
7. He loved Big Brother.
   
   
8. And by his side with his head up in the air and his eyes full of laughter walked as strongly and steadily as any boy in Yorkshire - Master Colin!
   
   
9. What I have been trying so hard to tell you all along is simply that my father, without the slightest doubt, was the most marvelous and exciting father any boy ever had.
   
   
10. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt. Amen.
    
    
11. "Well, I'm back," he said.
    
    
12. "But we, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives."
    
    
13. "Anything to eat?" cried Charlie, laughing. "Oh you just wait and see!"
    
    
14. scar.

OK, so numbers 7 and 11 might be giveaways, but they're balanced out by the last one, which is not even a full sentence and ends a book that hasn't even been written yet ;)

Comments

[jennifus.livejournal.com]

1. A Wrinkle in Time. I fucking love that book. That series, even.

7. 1984.

[bast2.livejournal.com]

#7 is, of course, 1984. The rest I'm not sure of.

[leaper182.livejournal.com]

#7. 1984, George Orwell.
#14. Untitled, unpublished, 7th Harry Potter book.

[nonniemous.livejournal.com]

12. Dune?
13. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
8. The Secret Garden.
1. A Wrinkle in Time.
11. The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King specifically (if you don't count the appendices. ;-)

[notpoetry.livejournal.com]

1. a wrinkle in time
7. 1984
12. The Handmaid's Tale, I think?
14. Harry Potter #7!

[umbo.livejournal.com]

All the ones I know have been guessed already, I think, but one person wasn't sure about 12, and I do know that's Dune. (I also knew 1 & 7).

[daf9.livejournal.com]

#4 is Chrysalids - As with your first lines meme, the only one I recognize.

[(Anonymous)]

I only know numbrs 1 and 12. A Wrinkle in Time and Dune. :)

I like this one.

[shiningmoon.livejournal.com]

I was going to guess "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" on 13, but someone beat me to it.

I'm guessing "Big Fish" on #9, based solely on what I saw of the movie previews :)

(Haven't read either.)

8 sounds suspiciously like "A Christmas Carol" but... Colin? =)

[mynuet.livejournal.com]

Without looking at the other answers:

#1 is A Wrinkle in Time, natch. Meg/Calvin, OTP 4EVA!!!!

I think 7 is 1984.

8 would be The Secret Garden, I think.

I dunno what you mean by 11 being a giveaway, for I know it not.

13. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, maybe?

[snarkhunter.livejournal.com]

Is #9 Danny, The Champion of the World?

All of the ones I know--1, 7, 9, 11, and 14--have already been guessed. Though some--#6, 3, and 5, especially--are familiar.