Friday's Final Words

It's back, Friday's Final Words. Did you recognize any of these finishing thoughts? They are from books we have read for Book Club Extraordinaire. Dig deep and see if you can guess these brain teasers. 

Give up? Find answers here. 

1. 
He had raised her from the dead and granted her the freedom of the living, had freed her to choose and to be chosen, and she had chosen him. As if life was a river and men its stepping stones, she had crossed the liquid years and returned to command his dreams. ..

"I have come home after all." she told him. "You have allowed me to return, and so here I am, at my journey's end. And now, Shelter of the World, I am yours."

2. 
Jaslyn thinks again of an apricot- she does not know why, but that's what she thinks, the skin of it, the savor, the sweetness. 
The world spins We stumble on. It is enough. 
She lies on the bed besides Claire, above the sheets. The faint tang of the old woman's breath on the air. The clock. The fan. The breeze.
The world spinning. 

3.
The doctor's wife got up and went to the window. She looked down at the street full of refuse, at the shouting, singing people. Then she lifted her head up to the sky and saw everything white, it is my turn, she thought. Fear made her quickly lower her eyes. The city was still there.