[meme] The Last Lines Quiz
ganked from queen_ypolita @ DW
The Last Lines Quiz: of what books are these the final lines? Answers in comments please.
01) But no one believes them. No one believes a word.
02) Therefore the triangle ABC is right-angled but it does not have sides which can be written in the form n2 + 1, n2 - 1 and 2n (where n > 1). QED
03) And if you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot . . . no, imagine a sneaker, laces trailing, kicking a pebble; imagine a stick, to poke at interesting things, and throw for a dog that may or may not decide to retrieve it; imagine a tuneless whistle, pounding some luckless popular song into insensibility; imagine a figure, half angel, half devil, all human . . .
Slouching hopefully towards Tadfield. . .
. . . forever.
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman - Good Omens
guessed by shadings, further confirmed by paddyabroad. lol
04) But when he saw the white face surge up out of the black swirl of the current and the white hand grasping at the tiles, he reached down and took hold of it.
05) He loved Big Brother.
George Orwell - 1984
guessed by paddyabroad
06) And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
07) I should hope, then, that by the time of my employer's return, I shall be in a position to pleasantly surprise him.
08) But, in spite of these deficiencies, the wishes, the hopes, the confidence, the predictions of the small band of true friends who witnessed the ceremony, were fully answered in the perfect happiness of the union.
09) She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
Neil Gaiman - Stardust
guessed by shadings
10) I thought of what mess everything had been, but that it wouldn't always be that way.
I judge you if you actually know 10). lol. But if you don't know that book, then you should read it because it will be an interesting experience.
The Last Lines Quiz: of what books are these the final lines? Answers in comments please.
01) But no one believes them. No one believes a word.
02) Therefore the triangle ABC is right-angled but it does not have sides which can be written in the form n2 + 1, n2 - 1 and 2n (where n > 1). QED
03) And if you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot . . . no, imagine a sneaker, laces trailing, kicking a pebble; imagine a stick, to poke at interesting things, and throw for a dog that may or may not decide to retrieve it; imagine a tuneless whistle, pounding some luckless popular song into insensibility; imagine a figure, half angel, half devil, all human . . .
Slouching hopefully towards Tadfield. . .
. . . forever.
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman - Good Omens
guessed by shadings, further confirmed by paddyabroad. lol
04) But when he saw the white face surge up out of the black swirl of the current and the white hand grasping at the tiles, he reached down and took hold of it.
05) He loved Big Brother.
George Orwell - 1984
guessed by paddyabroad
06) And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
07) I should hope, then, that by the time of my employer's return, I shall be in a position to pleasantly surprise him.
08) But, in spite of these deficiencies, the wishes, the hopes, the confidence, the predictions of the small band of true friends who witnessed the ceremony, were fully answered in the perfect happiness of the union.
09) She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
Neil Gaiman - Stardust
guessed by shadings
10) I thought of what mess everything had been, but that it wouldn't always be that way.
I judge you if you actually know 10). lol. But if you don't know that book, then you should read it because it will be an interesting experience.