“It was the end of Ernest's struggle with apprenticeship, and an end to other things as well. He would never again be unknown. We would never again be this unhappy.”
“Something told him that something was coming to an end. Not the world, exactly. Just the summer. There would be other summers, but there would never be one like this. Ever again.”
“Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.”
“He sniffed, and said as others had before him and others no doubt would again, "I have learned never to say, 'Never again.”
“He would not come again. This was good. No. This was bad. At least it was an end.”
“He’d gone into their marriage determined that she would never be alone again. In the end, she’d made him as alone in the world as she.”