300 Quotes About Ending

I lean forward into this looking-glass version of our very first meeting. My steady gaze meets his."So, I have a job offer for you," I say to him. "Would you like to hear more?

The ending changes everything that came before it.

Lyra at eighteen sitting intent and absorbed in Duke Humfrey’s Library with the alethiometer and a pile of leather-bound books. Tucking the hair back behind her ears, pencil in mouth, finger moving down a list of symbols, Pantalaimon holding the stiff old pages open for her … “Look, Pan, there’s a pattern there—see? That’s why they’re in that sequence!” And it felt as if the sun had come out. It was the second thing she said to Will next day in the Botanic Garden.

But back then, back on Lispenard Street, I didn't know so much of this. Then, we were only standing and looking up at that red-brick building, and I was pretending that I never had to fear for him, and he was letting me pretend this: that all the dangerous things he could have done, all the ways he could have broken my heart, were in the past, the stuff of stories, that the time that lay behind us was scary, but the time that lay ahead of us was not.

This can't be love because love never ends.

Nobody can go back and start all over again. But anyone can start today and make a new beginning. Instead of another closure, make a new future.

For the fragment of a life, however typical, is not the sample of an even web: promises may not be kept, and an ardent outset may be followed by declension; latent powers may find their long-awaited opportunity; a past error may urge a grand retrieval.

At the end of the day, it’s still up to you, and that’s the beauty of books. In so many ways, they never really end.

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