Final Sentences:
And behind the glass the rattlesnakes lay still and stared into space with their dusty frowning eyes.
from Cannery Row
[Adam looked up with sick weariness. His lips parted and failed and tried again. Then his lungs filled. He expelled the air and his lips combed the rushing sigh. His whispered word seemed to hang in the air: “Timshel!”]
His eyes closed and he slept.from East of Eden
She looked up and across the barn, and her lips came together and smiled mysteriously.
from The Grapes of Wrath
[Curley and Carlson looked after them.]
And Carlson said, “Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin’ them two guys?”from Of Mice and Men
[And Winter nodded slowly.] ‘Yes, you remembered. The debt shall be paid.’
from The Moon is Down
And the music of the pearl drifted to a whisper and disappeared.
from The Pearl
And that’s how the traveler came home again.
from Travels with Charley
Else another light might go out.
