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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]].

* ''[[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Literature)/Heartwarming|Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]''

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

* ''[[The Histories (Literature)/Heartwarming|The Histories]]''

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

* ''[[Honor Harrington (Literature)/Heartwarming|Honor Harrington]]''

* ''[[Sherlock Holmes (Film)/Heartwarming|Sherlock Holmes]]''

* ''[[The Sisters Grimm (Literature)/Heartwarming|The Sisters Grimm]]''

* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire (Literature)/Heartwarming|A Song of Ice and Fire]]'': Yes, it has them. Although they're usually followed by something horrible.

* ''[[Star Trek New Frontier (Literature)/Heartwarming|Star Trek New Frontier]]''

* 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]].

== [[Hercule Poirot]] ==

{{quote| "You are beautifully and perfectly balanced. In you sanity is personified. Do you realize what that means to me? When the criminal sets out to do a crime, his first effort is to deceive. Whom does he seek to deceive? The image in his mind is that of the normal man. There is probably no such thing actually - it is a mathematical abstraction. But you come as near to realizing it as is possible...how does this profit me? Simply in this way. As in a mirror I see reflected in your mind exactly what the criminal wishes me to believe. That is terrifically helpful and suggestive."}}

== [[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.

'''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.