Favorite last sentence of a novel

and last line of 'Get Shorty' - 'Fucking endings, they're not as easy as you'd think'

(both from memory, so probably not exactly as above)

- Wuthering Heights

(I'm not sure I like the book any more but the ending still has something.)

I guess A Tale of Two Cities is the one book where everyone remembers the opening line and the closing line.

David, please do indulge....

it was Rene Daumal, Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing (1952):
"Without the wasps, a large number of plants which play an important part in holding the terrain in place,"

In the Postface of my copy translated by Roger Shattuck, Vera Daumal wrote "Thus, Rene Daumal stopped in the middle of a sentence in the fifth chapter of Mount Analogue. His politeness would not allow him to keep the visitor waiting who knocked on his door that day in April, 1944. It was the last on which he held a pen."

rene and vera need diacriticals but I don't know how to make it here

"On errands of life, these letters speed to death. Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!"

"And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita."

"It may be as you say that this is no life, but use your enchanting, enrapturing brains: this life is as close to life as you, and I, and our child can ever hope to come." ["The Counterlife", Philip Roth]

"[...] I was so afraid [...] I was going to lose you forever, 'No, Valentin, beloved, that will never take place, because this dream is short but this dream is happy'." ["Kiss of the Spider Woman", Manuel Puig]

But here goes anyway:

"Now everybody---"

What could be simpler? In rough translation: once more with feeling.

(Richard Powers, The Gold Bug Variations)

Favorite movie last line would have to be "What?" from "Birdy".

Dawn was breaking over everything in colours at once clear and timid; as if Nature made a first attempt at yellow and a first attempt at rose. A breeze blew so clean and sweet, that one could not think that it blew from the sky; it blew rather through some hole in the sky. Syme felt a simple surprise when he saw rising all round him on both sides of the road the red, irregular buildings of Saffron Park. He had no idea that he had walked so near London. He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.

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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. "

"then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.

"Such a nice man," she said. "He waved to me."

(Dip in the Pool. Roald Dahl.)

"1 Scale-Model Thermonuclear Weapon."

(Battleground. Stephen King.)

ADAM: Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

(Diaries of Adam and Eve--Mark Twain)

I'm not going to quote either, the first because it's a spoiler, the second because I don't have the book handy, both because they only really work in context.

Look at it carefully so that you will be sure to recognize it in case you travel some day to the African desert. And, if you should come upon this spot, please do not hurry on. Wait for a time, exactly under the star. Then, if a little man appears who laughs, who has golden hair and who refuses to answer questions, you will know who he is. If this should happen, please comfort me. Send me word that he has come back.

The Little Prince
Antoine de St. Exupery