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Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.

Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!

Louisa May Alcott (2012). “Little Women”, p.29, Oberon Books

But, like all happiness, it did not last long.

J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.598, e-artnow

Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till-'t is gone, and all is gray.

Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

A trapped soul waits for redemption. It waits. And waits. For her to take her last breath.

Lisa McMann (2011). “Cryer's Cross”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

You can't love someone new without getting over the last one.

Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.218, Macmillan

I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.

Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.97, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Goodbye," I whisper at last, when it no longer matters and there is no one to hear it but the window.

Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.1166, Delacorte Press