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1 " 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. "
― Ellen Hopkins
2 " Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins. "
― Darren Shan
3 " Whether it’s an Iraqi widow mourning her dead loved ones standing helplessly in the rubble of her former home or a dying soldier in an Iraqi city street asking, “Why, God? Why is this happening? Where are you?” I can’t help but wonder the same. You realize that there is no justice, no karmic retribution swift enough, and that happy endings are a terrible, terrible lie. We are all subject to the same blind boot stomp and our luck is merely where we happen to be standing when death inevitably comes roaring down upon us. "
― M.B. Dallocchio , The Desert Warrior
4 " Monsters don’t get happy endings. "
― Paula Stokes , Ferocious (Vicarious, #2)
5 " For readers worldwide, the attraction of romance novels seems to be that they provide hope, strength, and the assurance that happy endings are possible. Romance makes the promise that no matter how bleak things sometimes look, in the end everything will turn out right and true love will triumph -- and in an uncertain world, that's very comforting. "
― Leigh Michaels , On Writing Romance: How to Craft a Novel That Sells
6 " 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. "
― Edward Abbey , Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
7 " 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. "
8 " October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or shutting a book, did not end the 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. "
9 " The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books the heroes can make as many mistakes as they like. It doesn't matter what they do, because everything works out in the end. They'll beat the bad guys and put things right and everything ends up cool.In real life, vacuum cleaners kill spiders. If you cross a busy road without looking, you get whacked by a car. If you fall from a tree, you break some bones. Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins. I just wanted to make that clear before I begun. "
― Darren Shan , Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare (Cirque Du Freak, #1)
10 " Perhaps I love happy endings because I have been created for one. Heaven. "
― Afton Rorvik , Storm Sisters: Friends Though All Seasons
11 " The hallmarks of the noir style are fear, guilt and loneliness, breakdown and despair, sexual obsession and social corruption, a sense that the world is controlled by, malignant forces preying on us, a rejection of happy endings and a preference for resolutions heavy with doom, but always redeemed by a breathtakingly vivid poetry of word (if the work was a novel or story) or image (if it was a movie). (" Introduction" ) "
12 " How do you see the world? Happy endings come not through events but through a shift in perception. "
13 " Everything is going to be okay, Princess Eloise," he whispered against her ear. " I promise." But it wouldn't. She knew better than to ever trust a man who promised happy endings in the middle of a kidnapping. "
14 " 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. "
― Thomm Quackenbush , Find What You Love and Let It Kill You
15 " 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. "
― , The House of Rose (Auronia #1)
16 " I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it's all said and done, it's all something worthwhile, and I want my movies to reflect that. There are enough things to be sad about. When you pop in a movie, let the message be one that's one of hope. "
