on this lovely springlike day

just thinking of some of my favourite beginnings and endings:

the opening paragraph to Richard Llewellyn's How Green was my Valley --

"I am going to pack my two shirts with my other socks and my best suit in the little blue cloth my mother used to tie around her hair when she did the house, and I am going from the Valley."

and the closing to Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird --

"He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning."