Favorite Last Lines From Science Fiction Novels

"I take his hand, holding tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go. "

"Sometimes it even gets a little repetitive. It's a horrible game. But there are much worse games to play."

"Unaware of his own movement, schooled by old habit, Vincenzo Giuliani rose and went to the windows, and stood looking, for how long he had no idea, across a grassy open courtyard to a complex panorama of medieval masonry and jumbled rock, formal garden and gnarled trees: a scene of great and beautiful antiquity. "

"When we reach the city. "

"She kissed me then, and I kissed her back, and it was some time before we went out for that burrito."

"He loved Big Brother. "

"And none of them need fear being eaten by memories of Rhea. "

"In the skies over Atlantis, two suns were gone. "

"He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance. "

"Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine-never to know the moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chai, we who carry the name of the concubine-history will call us wives. "

I agree this one of those ' happy ' endings

"Then he was down the elevator and back on the sunny plaza. And hovering immanent all around him were the worlds of art and science that humankind was busy building. What if I can have it all? "

"Stooping Down, Bruce picked one of the stubbled blue plants, then placed it in his right shoe, sliping it down out of sight. A present for my friends, he thought, and looked forward inside his mind, where no one could see, to Thanksgiving. "

"She moved on to the question of what she would dream about, if she could decide on a good dream before going to sleep, and if the dream would obey her wishes and stay good all through the night. "

"A little later the monowheel vehicle spun backward out of the sewer outfall, pirrouetted vertically like a saluting mount, swung down across the greasy slope of stones at the base of the House's walls, dodged uncoordinated gunfire from a nearby tower, and accelerated quickly across the tide-flooding sands. "

"Then the pipers piped and the drummers drummed and we all marched away into the sky. "

"She kisses his sleeping back and he falls asleep. "

"The Vibe doesn't say a word, for it's been done with him for years; but in his daughter's breathing, the calls of birds from the vines draped over branches, the thickening sky talking about the rain, the insects landing with rustles and whispers on their faces and hands, the ruts in the road that connect La Paz with his wife sleeping on the warping porch at the edge of the ravine, he thinks he hears the answer. "

"'Dreams, ' Demikhov said. 'Beautiful human dreams. '"

"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. "

"No one dared disturb him or interrupt his thoughts; and presently he turned his back upon the dwindling sun. "

Yep this is one of those very sad moments in the book

"Whatever the truth about the Deliverer, she will remain in my mind as she was shown on that statue, and all the other statues and murals, songs and stories: riding, at the head of her own swift cavalry, with a growing migration behind her and a decadent, vulnerable, defenceless and rich continent ahead; and, floating bravely above her head and above her army, the black flag on which nothing is written. "

"One of the things he planned to do, before he left this fancy hell, was figure out how to get into the Interface and go for a swim with those whales in that beautiful blue water. Round and round and round, in a lovely endless loop. "

So now what? " Saint-Just demanded. "A big show trial before the execution? Proof of my 'crimes' for the Proles and the newsies? "

"No," the citizen admiral said softly. "I think we've had enough of those sorts of trials."

His hand rose with Saint-Just's pulser, and the Citizen Chairman's eyes widened as the muzzle aligned with his forehead at a meter's range.

"Good-bye, Citizen Chairman."