Any nominations for those passages in novels which bring you to tears every time you read them?

Yes Morse and Lewis and Watership Down. I always well up when I hear the song Bright Eyes. Jane Eyre is sad I might read it again.

Morse and Lewis for me too

That scene with Morse and Lewis brought a tear to my eye as well Calendargirl
I read a book many years ago called Bonnie, it was about a little street girl in Victorian times who froze to death on the streets. Must be 60 years since I read the book but it's still in my mind.

Lots of those mentioned above especially The Railway Children. Plus lots of parts of Tess Of The Durbervilles.

Oh yes, Black Beauty, Watership Down, Marley and Me - any book where the animal dies.

‘The Remorseful Day’, the final Morse book.

When Lewis is at the mortuary.

‘But at least for the moment his only company was the dead. And bending down he put his lips to Morse’s forehead and whispered just two final words: ‘Goodbye, sir’.

Find the tv episode so moving when Kevin Whately does this scene with John Thaw. Must have been hard for both of them.

The final sentence of The Mayor of Casterbridge (by Thomas Hardy) ends with Elizabeth Jane and says "She whose youth had seemed to teach that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain".
This gets me every time...

When Helen dies in the dreadful school in Jane Eyre. Didn't finish that book for years and years because I couldn't get past that point.

I love Dickens and he can always be relied on for a bit of melodrama. When little Jo the crossing boy dies in Bleak House.

When David Copperfield finally gets to the house of his aunt, bedraggled, robbed and exhausted and the maid tries to shoo him away as she doesn't recognise him.

"Sense and Sensability" - when Elinor finds out that the love of her life, Edward, is not married, as she believed, but single, and as much in love with her as she with him.......I cry very happy tears!!
"A Town Like Alice" - when Jean returns to the Malay village that took her in during WW2 and finds out that the Aussie soldier, who befriended her, is not dead, as she feared....... more happy tears

I’m another fan of Lee and Heston. I wept when the armoured bear died

The end of Watership Down, where the Black Rabbit comes for Hazel. I'm always in floods.

GardenerGran

A thousand splendid suns. No spoilers, but if you’ve read it you’ll know. I absolutely sobbed.

I really struggled with the book: found it a hard read but, boy, was it worth it! I’m welling up just thinking about it! I didn’t find his next book as good.

Good Wives, when Amy learns Beth has died

'The grass was green upon her sister'

Maybee70 Lee and Hester may be my favourite "couple" in literature!

That's my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that's where my home is."
Noah talking about Allie in the Nursing home from "The Notebook" by Nicholas Sparks.
Saddest book I've ever read

Matthew’s death in Anne of iGreen Gables, and the bit where he tells Anne how much she means to him. “It wasn’t a boy who won the Avery (scholarship). It was a girl, my girl, my girl that I’m proud of.” Quoted from memory, probably not accurate.

A thousand splendid suns. No spoilers, but if you’ve read it you’ll know. I absolutely sobbed.

"And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be and whenever I look up, there will be you". Gabriel to Bathsheba - Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy.

Lots of National Velvet but especially the bit that says ‘the glorious ancestress Pocahontas whose blood ran down like time into her flying children’.

Yes. I loved The Subtle Knife having been disappointed with the first adaptation. I never got round to reading The Subtle knife. I guess I fell in love with Lee and Hester in the tv series!

I think we're talking about His Dark Materials Maybee70? The TV adaptation was quite close to the books, but changed the timeline around a bit. I re-read The Amber Spyglass after the series ended. I'd forgotten how weird it was! I do love it though.

I had to find the book first. There are many parts in Grapes of Wrath where I cried. This is just one:

“Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people - we go on.'

'We take a beatin' all the time.'

'I know.' Ma chuckled. 'Maybe that makes us tough. Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good, an' they die out. But, Tom, we keep a-comin'. Don' you fret none, Tom. A different time's comin'.”

"Oh Tiber, father Tiber,
To whom the Romans pray,
A Roman's life, a Roman's arms,
Tae thou in charge this day!"
So he spake and, speaking, sheathed
The good sword by his side,
And, with his harness on his back,
Plunged headlong in the tide.

No sound of joy or sorrow
Was heard from either bank;
But friends and foes in dumb surprise,
With parted lips and straining eyes,
Stood gazing where he sank;
And when above the surges
They saw his crest appear,
All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry,
And even the ranks of Tuscany
Could scarce forbear to cheer.

But fiercely ran the current,
Swollen high by months of rain:
And fast his blood was flowing;
And he was sore in pain,
And heavy with his armour,
And spent with changing blows:
And oft they thought him sinking,
But still again he rose.

Never, I ween, did swimmer,
In such an evil case,
Struggle through such a raging flood
Safe to the landing place:
But his limbs were borne up bravely
By the brave heart within,
And our good father Tiber
Bare bravely up his chin

"Curse on him!" quoth false Sextus,
“Will not the villain drown?
But for this stay, ere close of day,
We would have sacked the town!"
"Heaven help him!" quoth Lars Porsena,
“And bring him safe to shore;
For such a gallant feat of arms
Was never seen before."

And now he feels the bottom:
Now on dry earth he stands;
Now round him throng the Fathers,
To press his gory hands;
And now, with shouts and clapping,
And noise of weeping loud,
He enters through the River-Gate,
Borne by the joyous crowd.

‘My daddy oh my daddy’ -railway children

Black Beauty - much weeping (same as MayBee70)

Warhorse - ploughing that field, then going to France and his life there.

Little Women - politicised me. I don’t remember crying but I was sad and angry about the plight of the poverty stricken mother and pleased the Marsh family helped.