Literature/Heartwarming: Difference between revisions

The average novel is two hundred pages long or so. Sometimes, however, there's one page in the mix that [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|just makes your heart melt]].

 

* ''[[Anno Dracula/Heartwarming|Anno Dracula]]''

* ''[[The Baroque Cycle/Heartwarming|The Baroque Cycle]]''

* ''[[Black Company/Heartwarming|Black Company]]''

* ''[[Chalion/Heartwarming|Chalion]]''

* ''[[Chrestomanci/Heartwarming|Chrestomanci]]''

* ''[[A Christmas Carol/Heartwarming|A Christmas Carol]]''

* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia/Heartwarming|The Chronicles of Narnia]]'':

* ''[[The Dalemark Quartet/Heartwarming|The Dalemark Quartet]]''

* ''[[Dark Lord of Derkholm/Heartwarming|Dark Lord of Derkholm]]''

* ''[[Dragonback/Heartwarming|Dragonback]]''

* ''[[Dragonfly the Next Guardian/Heartwarming|Dragonfly the Next Guardian]]''

* ''[[The Elenium/Heartwarming|The Elenium]]''

* ''[[The Gathering/Heartwarming|The Gathering]]''

* ''[[Gotrek and Felix/Heartwarming|Gotrek and Felix]]''

* ''[[His Dark Materials/Heartwarming|His Dark Materials]]''

* ''[[Holes/Heartwarming|Holes]]''

* ''[[House of Leaves/Heartwarming|House of Leaves]]''

* ''[[Immortals After Dark/Heartwarming|Immortals After Dark]]''

* ''[[Iron Druid Chronicles/Heartwarming|Iron Druid Chronicles]]''

* ''[[The Kalevala/Heartwarming|The Kalevala]]''

* ''[[Kate Daniels/Heartwarming|Kate Daniels]]''

* ''[[Legends of Laconia/Heartwarming|Legends of Laconia]]''

* ''[[Liaden Universe/Heartwarming|Liaden Universe]]''

* ''[[The Lovely Bones/Heartwarming|The Lovely Bones]]''

* ''[[The Magids/Heartwarming|The Magids]]''

* ''[[Mary Poppins/Heartwarming|Mary Poppins]]''

* ''[[The Outsiders/Heartwarming|The Outsiders]]''

* ''[[Redwall/Heartwarming|Redwall]]''

* ''[[1632/Heartwarming|Sixteen Thirty Two]]''

* ''[[Temeraire/Heartwarming|Temeraire]]''

* ''[[Tom Clancy/Heartwarming|Tom Clancy]]''

* ''[[Trylle Trilogy/Heartwarming|Trylle Trilogy]]''

* ''[[Uglies/Heartwarming|Uglies]]''

* ''[[The Vampire Diaries/Heartwarming|The Vampire Diaries]]''

* ''[[War and Peace/Heartwarming|War and Peace]]''

* ''[[Wereworld/Heartwarming|Wereworld]]''

 

* Another comes from "Obsidian Butterfly" where Edward gets badly injured saving the family he'd been pretending to be a part of and literally faints as he tells Anita to save them. There was also a smaller one where just before Anita goes to sleep in a hospital bed, Edward kisses her forehead. However, they never reveal if he really did that or if she dreamed that part. (But it's still sweet as hell anyway.)

 

 

== [[Aubrey-Maturin]] ==

* In the [[Aubrey-Maturin]] books, Jack is {{spoiler|framed for a crime he didn't commit and kicked out of the navy, which he's been in since he was a child. Then when he's locked in the pillory and people are about to throw stones at him, sailors just start appearing out of nowhere. Men who've fought alongside him or commanded him, sailors who've never met him, but respect him as a war hero. They travel from all over the country to surround Jack from the mob, then they all take their hats off to show how much they still respect him}}.

 

 

== [[The Belgariad]] ==

* The end of ''[[The Belgariad|Polgara the Sorceress]]''.

 

== [[The Book Thief]] ==

* In ''[[The Book Thief]]'' when it is revealed that {{spoiler|Max Vanderburg survived the concentration camps and found Liesel in Frau Hermann's house. I suppose Frau Hermann taking Liesel into her house also counts as one.}}

** More than that...words cannot describe it. [[Discworld]]'s is not the only Death who can manage a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]. He's talking about the bombings, and it seems almost heartless... and then he says "It was only the children I carried in my arms." And to sum it all up:

*** And not to mention when Death finally meets the girl he's spent so much time thinking about, and watching get left behind.

* There's also "The Standover Man" and "The Word Shaker", the stories Max writes for Liesel.

 

== [[China Mieville]] ==

 

== [[Chronicles of Narnia]] ==

* Reepicheep's people revealing just how devoted they are to their leader.

* Aslan healing the woman on her deathbed, who turns out to be Caspian's childhood nurse.

* In the same book, Hwin (who has spent the entire book being bossed around by Aravis and Bree) proves she has more figurative balls than either of them when she takes one look at Aslan and offers herself up as his meal. [[Better Than It Sounds]].

 

* In ''The Doomspell Trilogy''' final installment ''The Wizard's Promise'': The [[Good Witches]] come to take back their lost sisters.

** Also when Eric asks for the name of the Witch Jarius who just pulled a [[Heel Face Turn]] for their cause.

'''Eric''': Jarius... thank you, Jarius. }}

** Also in the ''Doomspell'' Series... Yemi. Just... Yemi.

== Edward Lear ==

* The ending of Edward Lear's ''The Owl and the Pussycat'', after the titular characters get married:

They danced by the light of the moon. }}

** Actually, ''the whole poem'' is one big [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]].

** "There could be love."

 

"As you say."]] }}

 

== [[Gregory Maguire]] ==

* Somewhere in the second half of "Son Of A Witch", when Liir is imagining what stories the scraped faces would say of their lives. The stories come one after the other, with no apparent connection, and then one of them goes, "I loved it when I was alive". The next story is just:

 

== Halo ==

== [[Harry Turtledove]] ==

* The end of the tenth chapter in the second book of Harry Turtledove's [[Alternate History]] ''World War'' series. Mordecai Anielewicz, a Jewish partisan, is wandering the Polish countryside posing as a Catholic Pole after escaping from Lizard-occupied Warsaw when he is offered food and lodging for the night by a Polish peasant family. When he leaves the next morning, the patriarch of the family tells him that he figured out that he was Jewish, but offered hospitality anyway, since Mordecai "looked like a man who needed taking in." The chapter ends with:

** Another work by Turtledove is ''In the Presence of my Enemies'' set in a world where the Nazis won [[World War II]] and the few remaining Jews are in hiding in small groups of only a few families. One family is close to being caught and under the heels of the SS. Only for the SS investigator to subtly inform them they are free to go and implies he and many members of his organization are also hidden Jews and more than anyone knows survived...

 

== [[Hercule Poirot]] ==

 

== [[Hope Spot]] ==

* When he's not being seriously scary (such as lifting a man ''by the neck with one hand''), Bud White is probably having one of these.

* "Scary Captain Ed" doesn't get many of these, but one of them is at the end, saying goodbye to Bud and Lynn:

'''Lynn''': Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. }}

 

== [[The Illuminatus Trilogy]] ==

* This passage, found near the end of ''[[The Illuminatus Trilogy]]'':

 

== [[The Inheritance Cycle]] ==

* Let's not forget the moment when Andrew is accepted as a free robot, who owns himself. That always gets me.

 

 

 

== [[Johnny and The Bomb]] ==

 

 

* And from [[The Silmarillion]], Beren and Luthien, for Eru's sake! "...[Beren] woke again...and he heard beneath the leaves singing soft and slow beside him Luthien Tinuviel. And it was spring again."

* "...Maglor took pity upon Elros and Elrond, and he cherished them, and love grew after between them, as little might be thought."

* The ending of ''[[The Kite Runner]]''.

** Just the ending? Hassan's letter to Amir.

** "For you, a thousand times over." The first time the line's said is sweet in itself, though what happens after that makes it very ironic, but when {{spoiler|Amir and Sohrab are kite fighting and they manage to take one of them down. Amir immediately runs after the kite to catch it for Sohrab, telling him, "For you, a thousand times over."}}

 

* After she had spent many hours singing him nursery songs in his own tongue, and essentially been his only friend in a harsh environment. And finally, the climax of the trilogy, when Phedre speaks the Name of God to banish an angel and save her childhood best friend {[[It Makes Sense in Context]]) from an immortality of tortured existence. The Name is a word which cannot be pronounced or understood (it's all a bit magical), but everyone who was present heard it in their own languages. The Name of God? {{spoiler|Love.}} Doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].

* From the first book in the Imriel trilogy, the scene where Imriel tells his new friend Eamonn about the horrors he survived as the prisoner/plaything of the [[Complete Monster]] the Mahrkagir, opening up about things he's never told anyone, and Eamonn just shrugs it off, reminds Imriel that he's not vile even if vile things were done to him, and says that he wishes the Mahrkagir was still alive so he could avenge Imri properly.

 

== [[Literature/The Light Of Other Days|The Light of Other Days]] ==

** It gets better: the tech they're using produces a minute wormhole, which generates infinitesmal ripples in time-space. You'd need literally billions of wormholes for anyone to notice. The Catholic Church decide to find out Jesus' last words on the cross... and they can't. So many people are looking at this one spot that the whole area goes fuzzy when you look at it. Literally ''billions'' of people in the future still care about the guy, even though they heard he was completely normal.

 

* The first time Sarah talked with Becky. Becky was utterly stunned by the kindess Sarah showed her, due to the fact that Becky was a low-ranking servant, and was always treated horribly at the school.

* And of course, Becky would later return the favour. After Sarah's father passed away and there was no money left for Sarah at all, she was made into a servant and sent up to the attic to where she would sleep. Becky, whose room was right next to Sarah's, came to comfort her.

'''Becky''': " Yes, miss, you are. Whats'ever 'appens to you - whats'ever - you'd be a princess all the same - an' nothin' couldn't make you nothin' different." }}

* When Sarah, despite being desperately hungry herself, gave ''five'' buns to a begger child with the money she found on the ground. She was only able to do it by reminding herself:

* After being punished by Miss Minchin with having no meal tomorrow (Sarah quietly reminded her that she didn't have anything to eat today either), both Sarah and Becky went to bed with heavy hearts and tears on their cheeks. Just before she fell asleep, Sarah tried to keep her spirits up by imagining that the room had supper and a warm bed for her. But to her surprise, when she woke up, Sarah found that the dirty, cold room she slept in, had been transformed into a mavellous, beautiful bedroom, with warm blankets and a nice meal set for both her and Becky at the table. She quickly went to get Becky and both of them were in awe and joy for the rest of the night.

** Made even better that the one who did this for them was a sickly rich man, who lived next door to the school and greatly despised himself for having so much money. He later saw that Sarah had been treated badly and wanted to cheer her up. So he sent his servants to decorate her room and lavish her with gifts, now finding joy with his money to do good.

* And then in ''The Amber Spyglass'': {{spoiler|Lyra and Will, having been forced into an agonizing separation from their daemons, essentially losing part of their souls, find their daemons again during the epic final battle, and due to suddenly having to grab at the two similar looking animals, each ends up holding the one belonging to the other. Usually touching another person's daemon is the worst kind of invasive taboo, but almost without realizing it Lyra and Will have fallen so deeply in love that this is simply the final confirmation of their intimacy.}} Honestly, it sounds like terrible fantasy hokum, but somehow it completely works.

* The dialogue between {{spoiler|Lee Scoresby and Hester}} during their death scene in ''The Subtle Knife'', particularly:

" {{spoiler|Lee}}, I couldn't abide to be anywhere away from you for a single second." }}

 

== [[The Pickwick Papers]] ==

* ''[[The Pickwick Papers]]'' is full of scenes that could qualify, but the one where Job Trotter tells Sam how Mr Pickwick saved him and Jingle (bringing about their [[Heel Face Turn]]) stands out.

"None o' that, I say, young feller," repeated Sam firmly. "No man serves him but me." }}

 

== The Powerless Of This World ==

 

== [[The Railway Children]] ==

 

== [[Redwall]] ==

== [[Shannon Hale]] ==

* the end of Shannon Hale's " Book of a Thousand Days. I think the line that sums it up best is this,

* If Dashti's entry about finding My Lord( the cat), who has been thought dead for the past hundred pages, doesn't make you grin...nothing will.

** Shannon Hale is full of these. In Goose girl, for example, any time Enna is around and Isi/ Ani is sad, there is going to be a moment. ''any time''.

 

== [[Shel Silverstein]] ==

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TZCP6OqRlE "And the tree was happy."]

 

 

== [[Literature/A Single Shard|A Single Shard]] ==

* A real-life example given by travel writer Bill Bryson in his book about Australia, ''In A Sunburned Country'': In the 1950s, a teenaged Hungarian immigrant to Australia reported to the local police station and explained in broken English that he had been told to register his address. The duty sergeant stared at the youth, and came around his desk. "The Hungarian recalled that for one bewildered moment he thought the policeman might be about to strike him, but instead the sergeant thrust out a meaty hand and said warmly, 'Welcome to Australia, son!' The Hungarian recalled the incident with wonder even now, and when he finished there were tears in his eyes."

 

 

== Star Trek Expanded Universe ==

** Culminating when Data tells Geordi that he considers him his best friend {{spoiler|before pulling off Geordi's communicator, dumping him on top of a stack of storage equipment that's too high for him to get down easily, locking him in the storage room and going off to risk his hide in an attempt to save the crew from a Giant Life Sucking entity.}}

* In the Star Trek Online novel ''The Needs of the Many'', Jake Sisko tells the holographic 1962 lounge singer Vic about the ongoing fight for holographic persons' rights, and how it has advanced very far, but isn't quite official legislation yet. Vic dismisses it, saying that his programming isn't advanced enough to handle freedom from his program or holosuite. Then, just as Jake is leaving, Vic and his holographic audience all start singing ''We Shall Overcome''.

== [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] ==

* Complain about the rest of ''[[Legacy of the Force]]'' all you like, but [[Starscream|I]] say you have no soul if you didn't feel mushy during the two heart-to-heart scenes between Ben and Mara in ''Sacrifice'', especially the second one. Not only do they demonstrate why Mara is such a [[Mama Bear]] (scared as hell of losing her closest family, the two who gave her renewed faith in life), but it also makes me feel much less guilty for reading [[WAFF]] fanfic. It's also partially why I (and a lot of other fangirls) raged so hard at {{spoiler|Mara's death near the end of the book}}, because it meant there'd be no more such moments in later books. I'll let this brilliant quote speak for itself:

* Same troper who put up the above example; I've always had a soft spot for Mara as a mother, and [http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/4599/benmarams5.jpg this image] (which depicts said scene) explains why.

** This (non-female) editor is still raging about the [[Jumping the Shark|spoilered incident]], even more than {{spoiler|Anakin's death}} or {{spoiler|Jacen's [[Character Derailment]] followed by death}}. However, despite Darth Traviss's, shall we say "[[Completely Missing the Point|shaky]]" grasp of exactly where ''[[Star Wars]]'' falls on the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]] (here's a hint, you don't kill off the heroes without both reason and awesome and the heroes {{spoiler|don't [[Save the Villain|Save The Villains]] [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him|just so they can murder them personally]]}}), the editor does have to admit that she can write some pretty darn powerful scenes.

** Also part of the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]], in the [[X Wing Series]], after Dia [[Shoot Your Mate|shoots Castin]] and undergoes a [[Heroic BSOD]], Face takes her in his arms and keeps her from killing herself. Later he asks about the last time she really enjoyed herself, and then the last time she felt safe in someone else's company.

* And let's not forget how Mara Jade got Luke to say "I love you": {{spoiler|when he put her in a Jedi trace, she told him to wake her with that phrase, while wondering if he could actually do it}}. This is in ''[[Hand of Thrawn|Vision of the Future]]'', and comes right after a now or never moment.

'''Mara''': "...Yes. I will." }}

* The biggest [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] (also a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]) in that book and perhaps the entire ''[[New Jedi Order]]'' series would have to be Jacen {{spoiler|channeling his father's [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment in the very first movie}}. Jacen, still in his straw pacifist stage, has threatened to leave the ''Falcon'' because he doesn't want to participate in his father's raids on collaborators' ships. Leia visits Jacen, telling him that Han still needs him, and is desperately afraid of losing his bond with Jacen because Jacen is a Jedi, dealing with so many things Han could never understand. This is how it breaks down:

'''Jacen''': {{spoiler|I decided to stay with you guys two days ago.}} }}

* This troper's [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] list includes Luke saying "I love you" to Mara, Ben asking Luke "Dad, what's [[Unusual Euphemism|kriffing]] mean?", Luke [[Dark Nest Trilogy|witnessing R2's memories of Padme]], and Han [[The Courtship of Princess Leia|winning a planet in a sabacc game]] as a courting gift for Leia.

* In [[Survivors Quest]], the pilot Chak Fel, commanding the [[Badass Crew|four Aurek Seven stormtroopers]] and fighting alongside General Drask, who doesn't like him but does have experience in ground fights, painfully gives command over to Drask, because his pride isn't as important as the need to fight effectively and preserve their objectives. Drask then tells him that since Fel knows the layout of Outbound Flight and Drask does not, it will be a joint command. Usually dueling egos and conflicting orders make those into disasters, but Fel knows that it won't this time, since he'll restrict himself to advising. And Drask knew he would do that. So it's not a joint command at all - it's a concession Drask is making to Fel, letting him preserve face and status, in a sign of respect.

** Everything involving Dean Jinzler overcoming his old anger towards his Jedi sister and their parents.

* ''Allegiance''. The Hand of Judgment. Mara Jade saving them.

* ''Dark Rendezvous'' is roughly a fifty-fifty split between Moments of Awesome from Yoda the [[Badass]] Jedi Warrior, and Moments of Heartwarming from Yoda the wise and gentle teacher. The crowner has to be Yoda's little speech to Scout, a Jedi student having a crisis of confidence:

** Another one comes during an Apprentice/Padawan tournament. Since Scout is incredibly weak in the Force, though exceptional in all other areas of training, she has to resort to a clever deception against a kid who's a Force prodigy. Instead of being angry that he was beaten, especially by a duplicitous move, he smiles and says this.

** The mere fact that Scout survives the Jedi purge is kind of heartwarming--she'd been through so much hardship her whole life that it's good to know it didn't end in horror.

* A very subtle one in ''Betrayal'' in the form of a callback to the [[X Wing Series|Wraith Squadron books]] - {{spoiler|even though they don't appear, knowing Donos and Lara end up together makes the whole ending brighter}}.

* As unpopular as the prequel trilogy is, the novelization of Revenge of the Sith is nearly a masterpiece. So much so that Matthew Stover turns the [[Narm|NOOOOO!]] scene into what it was [[Tragedy|actually intended to be]]. Anyway, the novel ends with this small piece:

 

== [[Stephen King]] ==

== [[Literature/The Sword The Ring And The Chalice|The Sword, The Ring and the Chalice]] ==

* Throughout the triligy ''The Sword, The Ring And The Chalice'', it was quite clear that Alexeika was quite infatuated with the uncrowned King Faldain. But unfortunately, Dain was in love with another girl, Pheresa. When we see Alexeika's point of view, we see that that she desperately tried to catch his attention - from showing her excellent fighting skills to unbraiding her hair - and growing increasingly envious of Pheresa. Interestingly, from Dain's point of view, we see that he never acted with anything more than friendship and a leader-to-soldier relationship towards Alexeika. After the war was over, Dain was finally reunited with Pheresa but he realized, over the course of the last book, that he didn't love her anymore. When he met up with Alexeika later on, he found that he had fallen in love with the tough, fierce, swearing female warrior. He even mentioned that a boy's infatuation was a far cry from a man's love. As a little twist, Alexeika was so shocked that Dain had gently turned down Pheresa, she argued with him that he was well suited with Pheresa. However, Dain told her that he was happy with what he had here.

'''Dain''': " My queen. To rule at my side. To give me dispute rather than gentle compliance. To have courage equal to my own. Alexeika, I would rather love a woman who has the passion to make mistakes, just as I make them and the honesty to admit them afterwards, as I hope I will always do, than to spend my life with someone docile and dull." }}

 

== [[Temeraire]] ==

* The ''[[Temeraire]]'' series gets one early, near the beginning of ''His Majesty's Dragon'', and as the series progresses and you see the depth of their friendship it only becomes more poignant. During a discussion of how dragons like hoarding and how Laurence is not particularly wealthy, Temeraire says, offhand, how he would rather have Laurence than any heap of gold.

* This troper never fails to cry at the ending of ''His Majesty's Dragon'''s first part. Essentially, the aviators tried to separate Laurence and Temeraire, but Temeraire wasn't having any. Being a dragon, he pitches one hell of an impressive hissy fit, bringing Laurence running back. Then...

Laurence stood motionless for a moment, his hands still on Temeraire's head, with the dragon's warm breath curling around him. "No, my dear," he said at last, softly, knowing it was only the truth. "I would rather have you than any ship in the Navy." }}

* There's also the bit at the end of ''His Majesty's Dragon'', when Laurence and Temeraire {{spoiler|go to what they think will be their deaths, for duty and to try and save their friends.}} Of course, then Temeraire gets his [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] and all bets are off...

== [[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]] ==

* After Ned Land and Conseil tried to give [[The Professor]] Aronax some precious oxygen, they converse [[More Expendable Than You]]:

''"All right, all right!" the Canadian repeated in embarrassment.'' }}

 

== [[The Underland Chronicles]] ==

* In Book Two of [[The Underland Chronicles]], [[Rebellious Princess|Rebellious Queen]] Luxa has not been getting along well at all with her cousin Howard -- it has a little to do with {{spoiler|her other cousin Henry [[Face Heel Turn|betraying her]] in the first book.}} Then {{spoiler|his best friend and [[Bond Creature]] Pandora is eaten alive by mites right before their eyes, and Howard has to be knocked out to keep from going after her. When he comes to and realizes what happened, he loses it completely. Luxa comes up to him, holds him, and tells him, "She will fly with you always." and cries with him.}}

 

== [[Literature/Walk Two Moons|Walk Two Moons]] ==

* Towards the end of ''[[Watership Down]]'', months after their adventures, Hazel happens upon a mother rabbit telling her kits a story ''ostensibly'' starring the rabbit's legendary hero El-ahrairah. It gradually dawns on him that the tale is {{spoiler|really ''his'' story; the tale of his [[Nakama]]'s escape from Sandleford and journey to Watership Down}}. Many tears of joy ensue.

** Also the bit where Bigwig is fighting Woundwort and tells him that he will defend that run until he's dead. And this from the rabbit who, in the beginning, was objecting to Hazel's leadership.

** At the end, when an old and weary Hazel suddenly starts feeling better than he ever had in his whole life... {{spoiler|then turns and sees his own dead body laying in the grass. He feels just a fleeting moment of regret, then happily bounds off to join all those who've gone before.}}

 

== [[The Wheel of Time]] ==

* ''[[The Wheel of Time|The Gathering Storm]]'' has one in the form of {{spoiler|Verin's}} final moments. {{spoiler|After revealing herself as a [[Reverse Mole]] and giving Egwene 70 years' worth of research on the Black Ajah, something that can only be done at [[Loophole Abuse|the hour of a Black's death]], she lies back, preparing to die with "the soul of a Brown."}} Egwene's response:

** Rand gets an amazing one as well in the climax of The Gathering Storm. In the height of his madness, atop the mountain that serves as a tomb for his past incarnation, trying to find a reason why he shouldn't take the Godlike mass of Power he's channeling and obliterate the world to just end the misery of the cycle of reincarnation and rebirth, and what does he come up with? {{spoiler|"Because each time we live, we get to love again."}}

 

== [[World War Z]] ==

* You'd think that ''[[World War Z]]'' would be the last thing to have one of these, but it does. During the war against the zombies, the United Kingdom uses castles to defend citizens from the attackers. The narrator then describes that the Queen refused to leave Windsor Castle and head to the Isle of Man with the rest of her family. The position is defined in one of the most stirring things I've ever read (though the fact that I'm English may have more to do with it).

** Nope. It was touching to me too, and I'm Bahamian, as well as to a lot of other Western readers. Also;

* There's also the comment about the doctors, engineers, and Special Forces soldiers who volunteered to be paradropped in zombie-infested areas that still had a sizeable human population (known as "Blue Zones") to help the survivors:

* The astronauts on the ISS. {{spoiler|The last surviving one, dying of radiation poisoning, says that he'd do it all over again in a heartbeat.}}

* The retired professional wrestler. Wrestlers are normally Bad asses, but when one {{spoiler|breaks down after smelling perfume that reminds him of his mother}}, well...Yeah

** "It fell down, a great disastrous fall like a lightning-stricken tower's, and wept darkness with desire for the Light."

** And another in Wizards at War, when Nita and Kit visit their Wizard Seniors,Tom and Carl, after they win the big battle. The last time Nita had visited them, neither remembered the fact that they were wizards, because they had both lost their magic. The kids knock on the door, and wait anxiously. After a few moments:

He held the screen door open for them. Nita tackled Tom, and the hug went on for some time. }}

 

** The carriage scene with Jane, Rochester, and Rochester's ward Adele count because it is the first time in the book we ever see Adele and Rochester, who initially did not want to take a "brat," ever bond. And along Rochester's good-natured teasing to Adele, is Rochester's intentions to give Jane the best life she could ever have.

* In Alison Goodman's "Eon: The Last Dragoneye", Ryko, probably Eon/Eona's most faithful friend, spends all of about a chapter hating her after [[Sweet Polly Oliver|finding out the truth]]. Then she stays to save him instead of running after her former friend Dillon, who has stolen the black folio, which they were trying to keep away from him and his master.

* The end of [[The Bartimaeus Trilogy|Ptolemy's Gate]], when {{spoiler|Nathaniel's heroic sacrifice}} is just like Ptolemy's.

* [[The Mouse and His Child]], in the end, where Manny finally lets himself become a true part of the family. Heck, the bit with the wedding, or where the seal becomes part of the mouse family. The WHOLE DAMN ENDING is full of those.

* The poem ''Invictus'' by W.E Henley is a wonderful tribute to the human spirit overcoming all obstacles. I'll quote just the last verse:

I am the captain of my soul. }}

* The end of ''Rock of Ages'' by Walter Jon Williams, where Maijstral {{spoiler|comes to the realization that he might not be such a coward after all. Because of Ronny Romper, of all things.}}

* The scene which includes following from ''[[Lord of Light]]'':

* ''The Gods of War'', fourth book in Conn Iggulden's ''Emperor'' series, has one following the Battle of Pharsalus. Caesar orders that no one may kill {{spoiler|the traitor Brutus}} if he is found, and when he finds him himself he grants him forgiveness in a rather heartwarming scene (two scenes, to be picky).

* The ending to ''It's Kind of a Funny Story.'' In '''spades.'''

* ''In This House of Brede'' has a powerful scene in which a nun must go to sleep, even though she wants to stay awake to pray for a dangerously ill friend. As she's leaving the chapel, two other nuns who have never really liked her come in to pray in her place.

* In ''Then There Were Five'', when Mr. Melendy is bidding against the villainous Mr. Crown for a pair of horses.

 

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