Last Lines

A magazine posed the question:
What is your favorite last line?

First lines are memorable:
In the beginning, God.
Call me Ishmael.

But last lines? After all the drama and emotion of the text?
Still important. Maybe.

My Dad’s response was published.
“Father had always said grace before meals; always the same twenty-five words, and the ritual was always the same. Mother would look around the table to see that everything was in readiness; then she would nod to Father. That night she nodded to me, and I became a man.”

My response was not published.
“Thus was the end of Hector, breaker of horses.”