end-of-books

Paradoxically, however, a story ceases to be like life on its last page. Life goes on, but the story does not. Its characters have no vitality outside the first page and after the last is only good as the next reader's.

You__e going to turn the next page, because you still have hope. You hope there__ a little something more, and it__ nothing personal. People do it at the end of every book. I think that__ why publishers put in all those extra pages. So you have a chance to shuffle and flip through them while it sinks in. It__ over. The trip is done.You know it__ over, but you__e going to turn the page anyway.