Literature’s Greatest Closing Paragraphs

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS (JK ROWLING): The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.

THE GREAT GATSBY (F SCOTT FITZGERALD): So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

CATCHER IN THE RYE (JD SALINGER): Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

THE BELL JAR (SYLVIA PLATH): The eyes and faces all turned themselves towards me, and guiding myself by them, as by a magical thread, I stepped into the room.