Quotes about happy-endings

Ahmed Mostafa -

Life is a bitch; you get used though, or you kill yourself. Either way, you're winning.

Lisa Kleypas - Scandal in Spring

They took Daisy to the orangery, where warm autumn light glittered through the windows, and the scents of citrus and bay hung thick in the air. Removing Daisy's heavy orange-blossom wreath and veil, Lillian set them aside on a chair.There was a silver tray on a nearby table, laden with a bottle of chilled champagne and four tall crystal glasses."This is a special toast for you, dear," Lillian said, while Annabelle poured the sparkling liquid and handed the glasses out. "To your happy ending. Sin

Neil Gaiman - Season of Mists

October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content.

Matshona Dhliwayo -

If the final chapter of your life story is written by love, you are guaranteed a happy ending.

John Green - Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.

Shonda Rhimes - Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

There is no list of rules. There is one rule. The rule is: there are no rules. Happiness comes from living as you need to, as you want to. As your inner voice tells you to. Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be. Being traditional is not traditional anymore. It’s funny that we still think of it that way. Normalize your lives, people. You don’t want a baby? Don’t have one. I don’t want to get married? I won’t. You want to live alone? Enjoy

Margaret Atwood -

So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.

Hank Moody - God Hates Us All

You know why love stories have happy endings?” I shake my head.“Because they end too early,” she continues. “They always end right at the kiss. You never have to see all the bullshit that comes later. You know, Life.

Rainbow Rowell - Fangirl

Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.

Ellen Hopkins -

Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.

Phil Lester -

Marriage is just a piece of paper if it's not a happy one.

Mandy Hale - and a Dash of Sass

Happily Single" is recognizing that you don’t need or want to be rescued from your life by a handsome prince because your life is pretty awesome, as is.

Cindy Bonner - The Passion of Dellie O'Barr

And I don't believe in such a thing as "happily ever after". There's only happily every now and then. I find the hardest trick is to recognize the now-and-thens, and to bask in them when they come. Happiness is a choice we make, like how to wear our hair, or having coffee with breakfast and tea at night.

C. Elizabeth - Absolute Obsession

Real is not Dreams, Dreams are not Real,Unless you find the fine line...and erase it

Elina Juusola - Love on the Line: How to Recover from Romance Scams Gracefully and Without Victimisation

One way [to recovery] would be by creating the best possible romance book or happy ending scenario for you ... out od your own experience. Another way would be to look at it as it is: a wake-up call to action to create a more humane world, without discrimination and sexism.

S.J. Watson -

There were never going to be any happy ending for me. I know that now. But that is all right. That is all right.

Peter S. Beagle - A Fine and Private Place

There are no happy endings, he knew, because nothing ends; and if there were any being dispensed, a great many worthier people would be in line for them long before Michael and Laura and himself. But the happiness of the unworthy and the happiness of the so-so is as fragile and self-centered and dear as the happiness of the righteous and the worthy; and the happiness of the living is no less short and desperate and forgotten than the joys of the dead.

Auliq Ice -

Though there are no stars, no light but the souls in love will always shine so bright even in darkness.

Mandy Hale - and a Dash of Sass

Happy is still Happy, with or without the Ever After.

Colleen Hoover - Hopeless

You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Be positive, be happy and be thankful.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

We savour on great memories of happy times.

Diana Wynne Jones -

A book for children, like the myths and folktales that tend to slide into it, is really a blueprint for dealing with life. For that reason, it might have a happy ending, because nobody ever solved a problem while believing it was hopeless. It might put the aims and the solution unrealistically high – in the same way that folktales tend to be about kings and queens – but this is because it is better to aim for the moon and get halfway there than just to aim for the roof and get halfway upstairs.

Cindy Vine - C U @ 8

In books and movies, all the loose ends are tired, things are resolved, mysteries are solved, they catch the killer, the boy gets the girl, a sick baby is miraculously healed. In reality it doesn't always work that way. The killer gets away, the girl is in love with another boy, things just get buried under new dramas and don't get resolved. Life is far more complicated than the life depicted in a book or a movie.

Flannery O'Connor -

I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up.

Khadija Rupa - Unexpressed Feelings

It’s a poem, of our love, that doesn’t rhyme. A story, never meant to have, a happy end.

Edward Abbey - Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Ring

Have you thought of an ending?""Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant.""Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?""It will do well, if it ever came to that.""Ah! And where will they live? That's what I often wonder.

Frank Herbert -

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

Joyce Rachelle -

You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.

Ada Calhoun - Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are not useful for grown-ups.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

When you are in love, you always want to be with your lover.

Oliver Gaspirtz -

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

Robin Hobb - Fool's Quest

I found myself speaking softly as if I were telling an old tale to a young child. And giving it a happy ending, when all know that tales never end, and the happy ending is but a moment to catch one’s breath before the next disaster. But I didn’t want to think about that. I didn’t want to wonder what would happen next.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Be thankful.Be grateful.Be joyful.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Nothing can stop you from being happy except yourself. Focus on positive thoughts.

James Goss - Doctor Who: Dead of Winter

How are you, Rory?' [the Doctor] asked.I [Rory]... answered him. 'It's been odd being you.''Isn't it?' The Doctor's smile didn't quite reach his eyes.'How do you cope?''Ah...' The Doctor picked away at a scrap of loose paint on the door. 'Well, I just get as close as I can to a happy ending, then I shut the door behind me and move on.'I nodded.We shut the door behind us and moved on.

Thomm Quackenbush - Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

There weren't always happy endings and children would do well to know that vile things could happen to them, that witches and wolves were desperate to steal them should they be disobedient or foolish or simply unlucky.

T.T. Escurel - The House of Rose

I’ve never believed in fairy tales. One day, the fairies will tell this story. There will be a valiant prince, a part no doubt played in history by the brave Vartan who journeys to rescue his bride from a dragon. There will be fairies. There will be horse-birds and there will be an enchanted blade. But, I will no doubt be stricken from the tale, a cursed blemish on a shining story. Happy endings don’t always happen in the real world.

A.S. Byatt -

In the end it wins a king's daughter, who is expected to burn its hedgehog-skin at night, and does so, and finds herself clasping a beautiful prince, all singed and soot-black. Christabel says, 'And if he regretted his armoury of spines and his quick wild wits, history does not relate, for we must go no further, having reached the happy end.

Michael Ben Zehabe - Song of Songs The Book for Daughters

Genesis began with the Father losing His family. Revelation ends with Him getting them back. Is there nothing to be learned from this sad cycle? Truly, family is the legitimate theme of holy text.pg vi

Rosamund Lupton - Sister

For years I had a fantasy of a happy-ever-after ending. The first night I spent at the university my fantasy ended, because I thought a happy-ever-after was pointless. Because with my father I didn't want to hope for a happy ending but to have had a happy beginning. I wanted to have been looked after by Daddy in childhood, not finding resolution with my father as an adult.

Gift Gugu Mona -

I choose to say it is well even when it is not, because in every situation I find myself in, I still learn from it.

T.L. Martin - Touched by Death

Sometimes I think people like you are the strongest of us all. The kind of person who can find beauty in anything. Who chooses to believe in love before hate. Who doesn’t just hope for happy endings, but has what it takes to create the happy ending. It’s so easy to be angry, to hate, to see the worst in a situation. But to actively choose to see the best? That’s where all the courage is.

Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls

Stories don't always have happy endings."This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

F.D. Lee - The Fairy's Tale

I’m not… What’s wrong with them believing?” Bea asked, a note of pleading creeping, uninvited, into her voice.“You do not sell belief, you sell belief-in. Belief in true love, as if everyone were entitled to it. Belief in a simple solution to a complex problem. Belief in one type of person, one type of future.”“No I don’t. I offer people dreams, and hope, and, and, something to organise their lives with,” Bea said, not sure why she was trying to convince him. “I don’t make them into ‘one person’

Judith Ryan Hendricks -

Life has no happy endings, actually, no endings at all, just an ongoing series of beginnings. A story—whether it’s happy or sad, whether it makes sense or not, what its meaning is—depends entirely on where you start it and where you end it.

Afton Rorvik - Storm Sisters: Friends Though All Seasons

Perhaps I love happy endings because I have been created for one. Heaven.

Becky Doughty - All the Way to Heaven

All the way to heaven is heaven.’ It is not just about the happy ending, but making every step along the way matter. It is a good way to live a life, do you think?

Matthew Quick - The Silver Linings Playbook

I believe in happy endings, and i feel this movie has advanced long enough.

Isabel Greenberg - The Encyclopedia of Early Earth

Follow your gut, Storyteller, it will lead to your happy ending.

Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace

And then she began to cry, and when I asked her why she was doing that, she said it was because I was to have a happy ending, and it was just like a book; and I wondered what books she'd been reading.

Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus

And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.

Cornelia Funke - Inkheart

Unlike me, he realized that Dustfinger would do anything in return for such a promise. All he wants is to go back to his own world. He doesn't even stop to ask if his story there has a happy ending!""Well, that's no different from real life," remarked Elinor gloomily. "You never know if things will turn out well. Just now our own story looks like it's coming to a bad end.

John Geddes - A Familiar Rain

...love is suffering - that's the happy ending...

Steven Jackson - Numbers... a Gangsta's Child: A Woman's Journey from Rags to Riches

I tell ya! The road to success is an endless battle for you and me.

Darwun St. James - CRICKET

In a near-by clearing, Cricket and How-Ya-Do came upon a ridiculously comical sight. It was an extra-large hyper-manic bird yelling at the funniest looking Crawfish that she had ever seen. The Crawfish stood over a foot tall, which just does not happen, and he was wearing a light-blue beanie and gold chains around his neck.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Awake your soul to happy memories.

Kaye P. -

Subconsciously, every one believes in angels, fairies, magic and a happy ever after.

Jackie Braun - Revenge Best Served Hot

When I sealed the deal on Douglass, I thought I had everything I wanted. But I was wrong. You’re everything thing I want. Everything I need.

Daisy Goodwin - The American Heiress

When she was chair of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010, Daisy Goodwin wrote a controversial essay lamenting the 'unrelenting grimness' of so many novels and pointing out that 'generally great fiction contains light and shade'---not only misery but joy and humor. 'It is time for publishers to stop treating literary fiction as the novelistic equivalent of cod-liver oil: if it's nasty it must be good for you.

Meg Rosoff - Just in Case

In the meantime, Charlie learnt to fly. Dorothea fell in love. Peter discovered a new star. And a great number of things happened to Justin. Hundreds of millions of ordinary, unexpected, and occasionally quite astonishing things.And that was his fate.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

You have the grace for happy life.

Jane Tara - The Happy Endings Book Club

How do you see the world? Happy endings come not through events but through a shift in perception.

Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.

Dodie Smith -

When I imagine changing places with her I get the feeling I do on finishing a novel with a brick-wall happy ending---I mean the kind of ending when you never think any more about the characters.

Peter S. Beagle - The Last Unicorn

You were the one who taught me," he said. "I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together, or without sorrow for its spoiling. I became a hero to serve you, and all that is like you.

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