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1 " It was just like him, she thought; with him, a happy ending was always a foregone conclusion. But such was the power of his faith that when she was with him; she found herself believing in happy endings, too. "
― Sharon Kay Penman , When Christ and His Saints Slept (Plantagenets #1; Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)
2 " What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year. "
― Scott Westerfeld , Afterworlds (Afterworlds #1)
3 " Incarceration is when nobody writes a happy ending for a woman without a man. "
― Maggie Georgiana Young , Just Another Number
4 " Whether or not the couple ends up together at the end of a book doesn't determine whether the book has a happy ending or not. As long as the two people end up happy, it doesn't really matter if they end up happy together. "
― Colleen Hoover , November 9
5 " Your future is your own again. And I consider that to be a happy ending to the story. "
― Lisa Mangum , The Forgotten Locket (Hourglass Door, #3)
6 " . . . you don’t need a happy ending to move onto a happy beginning. "
7 " The ending shouldn't determine the meaning of anything, a story or a life. Logically, I don't think it can--didn't Heidegger say something to that effect? That the meaning of all our moments cannot be contingent upon an end-point over which we have no control? That if we are happy right now, that means something, even if we die tomorrow? Narrative integrity is overrated. I don't need to know that the story of my life has a happy ending to enjoy it. A good thing, too, because I hear all the characters die in the end. "
8 " That's the tragedy of fairy tales. The whole world puts them on a pedestal. People want their lives to be magical, but what people don't understand is that happiness is sacrificed. There is so much more to the story than what is written. The Cinderella you think she's so unfortunate with her mean sisters and stepmom. You think she deserves a happy ending with a prince, but the twenty-page journey is all you see. You learn little about who she is. What if Cinderella's just a good actress who has everyone fooled, when really, she sucks. She more than sucks. "
― Angela Parkhurst , The Forgotten Fairytales (Forgotten Fairytales, #1)
9 " To find a happy ending with someone else, first you have to find it alone. "
― Soman Chainani , The Last Ever After (The School for Good and Evil, #3)
10 " The journey is the mystery…the destination the answer. If you don’t have a happy ending yet, you have not finished reading the right book. "
― Shannon L. Alder
11 " You cannot have a happy ending to an unhappy journey. "
12 " People are going to think I'm morbid, loving all these sad books. I actually don't mind a happy ending in a novel—certainly, it's nice when it happens. But when you've invested so much time and your fingers have pushed through all that paper and you get to the end…well, a tragic ending kind of goes with the tragedy of finishing a book. "
― Julia Roberts on Thomas Hardy's "An Imaginative Woman"
13 " You know how it feels to think you've ruined everything. You're hoping if my story has a happy ending there's hope for yours too... "
― C.J. Redwine , Defiance (Defiance, #1)
14 " We loved it. We loved how slow it was. We love that it took forever. Actually, we never wanted it to end. We loved the jungle, the rafts, the ridiculous armor and helmets. . .I think most of all we loved that it didn't have a happy ending for anyone. The whole time we were sort of expecting that someone would survive because that's how stories work: Even if everything is a total disaster, someone lives to tell the tale. But not with Aguirre, the Wrath of God. Hell no. Everyone dies. That's awesome. "
― Jesse Andrews , Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
15 " 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. "
― Rosamund Lupton , Sister
16 " Love need not speak volumes. It need not demand proof. It never has a happy ending - simply because it doesn't end as long as love is pure and true”. "
― Amit Abraham
17 " A comedy isn’t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. "
18 " It seems to me, that no matter what we do, no matter what choices we make, there isn’t a happy ending waiting for us at the end of the long road.”“But that doesn’t mean we give up. It doesn’t mean we stop fighting. "
― Danielle L. Jensen , Hidden Huntress (The Malediction Trilogy, #2)
19 " There’s no happy ending ... Nevertheless, we might well say that is exactly Harriet Beecher Stowe’s point. In 1852 slavery had not been abolished. Slaves were still on the plantations and many of them were in the hands of people like Legree. Her book was written to shame the collective conscience of America into action against an atrocity which was still continuing. So a happy ending would have been, frankly, a lie and a betrayal. ...Most of the charges are basically true. Stowe did stereotype. She did sentimentalize. She offered a role model which later offended African American pride. On the other hand, what she did worked. She wasn’t trying to provide a role model for African Americans. She was trying to make white Americans ashamed of themselves. ...Perhaps the short answer to her critics is to ask, “Do you want glory, approval, all those good things? Or do you want to achieve your goal? "
― Thomas A. Shippey
20 " What else are we gonna live by if not dreams? We need to believe in something. What would really drive us crazy is to believe this reality we run into every day is all there is. If I don't believe that there's a happy ending out there-that will-you-marry-me in the sky-I can't keep working today. "
