Top Final Sentences of 2024
1.There was this girl, and she told me she loved the smell of petrichorā¦" Maureen Johnson, fromĀ Death at Morning House
2. It occurs to me that, like everyone else, I have only one home. Deepa Rajagopalan, from āThe Many Homes of Kanmaniā
3. If they will never see anything but a monster when they look at me, then itās a monster Iām going to give them. H.E. Edgmon, fromĀ Godly Heathens
4. I know itās hard But itās time you were comfortable in your own skin Everything is happening as it is supposed to With hidden blessings that you will soon understand And whatever happens, remember, I did, I do, and I will always Love you. Isabella Fillspipe, from āDear Past Selfā AND
See what happens if you try. Andrew Joseph White, fromĀ Compound Fracture
5. And finally, I wasnāt who I was at seventeen anymore. Marina Diamandis, from āAspartameā
6. I have the privilege of another day. Patty Stonefish, from āIt Could Have Been Meā 7. Go eat a fucking sandwich and throw your scale away Work out if you want to, lay on the couch if you want to No one else lives in your body You are enough, as you are, today. Mary Lambert, from āMargaritasā
8. He looked up at the empty clouds, and as he died he wondered, not for the first time but for the very last, why it should be that we are made for a bright world, but live in a dark one. Lev Grossman, from The Bright Sword
9. May you find āas one tortured poet knewā That Icarus also flew. Ilya Kaminsky, from āOf Flightā
10. I say,Ā May you go shopping for cleaning supplies but come home with poems. Melissa Studdard, from āWhen You Rise from the Dead, I Drive You to the After Party"
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She pulls me to her and we push off, over the hill, and at long last, it feels like taking flight. Christina Li, fromĀ True Love and Other Impossible Odds
11. They all three came together where the land met the sea. Rose Sutherland, fromĀ A Sweet Sting of Salt
12. I mean it this time. Dustin Brookshire, from āPoem in Which I Realize That One Day I Wonāt Miss Youā
13. never let them know that the next person to reach their hands into your chest may look at you in awe, at how surprisingly breakable you are, how you have survived this long. Mary Lambert, from āTips for Fat Girlsā
14. Because thereās no future without a past. Abdi Nazemian, fromĀ Like a Love Story
15. Donāt waste one second of it living for anyone but yourself. Drew Afualo, fromĀ Loud
16. nothing is relentless but the sea. Ming Lauren Holden, from ācan she breathe?ā
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I imagined staring across from you at our dining room table thinking about how I could best love you. Mary Lambert, from āWritten at Our Dining Room Tableā
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I looked kind of happy for someone who was drowning. Mary Lambert, from āThe Last Time It Was Goodā
17. "And in the end, if youāre really smart and really brave, the only reward you get is the chance to finally start being alive." Naomi Kanakia, from Just Happy to Be Here
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Perhaps. Jennifer Lynn Barnes, fromĀ The Grandest Game
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I was smiling when he cradled my face in his hands and kissed me. Melissa Albert, fromĀ The Bad Ones
18. I am throwing up, I am throwing up my Hands, I do I do want to know how clouds are made, I like pink and I want a yard I tattoo flowers on my arm and I missed it all Jesus I missed everything. Mary Lambert, from āGrownā
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Mors vincit omnia. Andrew Joseph White, fromĀ The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
19. i coax my bones to rise, talk to them as children hushed; pleading. Andrea Simpson, from āOphelia,Ā Mania from the Willow Treeā
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This time, Iām keeping him. Casey McQuiston, fromĀ The Pairing
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We donāt choose their arrival
But we choose our response, so we might
as well greet them and treat them like friends. Marina Diamandis, from āE-motionā
20. But I opened my arms and I let Wreck in because every one of us gets to choose what kind of monster we become. Sam J. Miller, from āBoys Who Run with the Boarsā
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And Nina smiles because she knows she did the best she could. Mark Oshiro, from āWaspsā
