Book Meme Day 09

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Day 09 - Best scene ever

I can't come up with one "best scene ever", so here are several that I enjoyed very much:

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  The scene in A Room With A View when they're out on a "ramble" in the countryside in Florence, and Lucy runs into George amidst a field of violets and he kisses her. Since I have the book in front of me, let's do the scene justice and let Forster describe it:
  
  She did not answer. From her feet the ground sloped sharply into view, and violets ran down in rivulets and streams and cataracts, irrigating the hillside with blue, eddying round the tree stems, collecting into pools in the hollows, covering the grass with spots of azure foam. But never again were they in such profusion; this terrace was the well-head, the primal source whence beauty gushed out to water the earth.
  
  Standing at its brink, like a swimmer who prepares, was the good man. But he was not the good man that she had expected, and he was alone.
  
  George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped forward quickly and kissed her.
  
  
• The scene in Lord of the Flies where Ralph comes across the boar's head on a pike: the symbol of The Beast. Quoth William Golding:
  
  There isn't anyone to help you. Only me. And I'm the Beast...Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
  
  So chilling!
  
  
• Because at heart I am a hopeless romantic, I love the scene in the Houses of Healing when Eowyn and Faramir start to fall in love. These two are my favorite characters from the books.
  
  And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air. And the Shadow departed, and the Sun was unveiled, and light leaped forth; and the waters of Anduin shone like silver, and in all the houses of the City men sang for the joy that welled up in their hearts from what source they could not tell.
  
  

I know there are tons more that I just can't think of right now! There are many books I love, but it's hard to whittle it down to individual scenes that I like. If anyone feels like sharing, I'd love to be reminded of some other great literary scenes!