And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.

“It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dream…”

“I'd rather wonder than get answers I couldn't live with.”

“I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their slug…”

“Cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxi…”