Welcome to Booking Through Thursday, a weekly bookish meme about books and reading for everyone who loves both. Booking Through Thursday was first hosted by Deb. With permission, I’ve restarted it in 2026.
This week’s prompt:
This week, please share other favorite lines from books that aren’t the very first line. These can be from anywhere in the story, even the last line.
In a variation on a theme: what are your favorite lines from books that aren’t first lines.
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Here are a couple that come to mind:
“Her voice is full of money.”
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Can a man who’s warm understand one who’s freezing?
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Okay, so this one is stage direction, not really a line. But since I’ve been elbow deep in Shakespeare, I must include this from The Winter’s Tale:
Exit, pursued by a bear
I like these! And I suspect that the attention to specific lines is one of the characteristics that makes you a good writer. Unfortunately, for me, one sentence seems to be forgotten as soon as I get to the next. Not sure if I’ll be able to come up with anything for this prompt this week.
You know, I think it has something to do with the way my memory works. Certain lines live rent-free in my head. I can remember lines from books I’ve read in childhood, teens, and over the years.
Included mine in this blog post https://jhohadli.com/2026/05/24/reading-journal-230526/
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