A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.
If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.
I have been able to follow my death step by step and now my life goes gently to its end.
I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.
I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.
But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.
The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.
A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.
The main thing I'm into is going about on a bike, taking random routes; I'm really into the idea of making up journeys, and just seeing where they take you, because they always end up taking you someplace freaky.
I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.
In the prequel we're going to tell about the characters before Left Behind, and the book would end with the rapture instead of start with the rapture like the first one did.
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.