Happy Endings Quotes
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![Rainbow Rowell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1652825664i/4208569._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Fangirl
― Fangirl
![Patrick Ness](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1589369436i/370361._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― A Monster Calls
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.”
― A Monster Calls
![Stephen King](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1362814142i/3389._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.”
― The Dark Tower
― The Dark Tower
![John Green](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1353452301i/1406384._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
― Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
![Ellen Hopkins](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1317081848i/2821144._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![E.M. Forster](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1402057803i/86404._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense, Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.”
― Maurice
― Maurice
![Neil Gaiman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1234150163i/1221698._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists
― The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists
![Peter S. Beagle](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1360970921i/1067608._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― The Last Unicorn
― The Last Unicorn
![J.R.R. Tolkien](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1648968349i/656983._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
"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.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
![Shonda Rhimes](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1444681291i/3888197._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“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 it. You want to love someone? Love someone. Don’t apologize. Don’t explain. Don’t ever feel less than. When you feel the need to apologize or explain who you are, it means the voice in your head is telling you the wrong story. Wipe the slate clean. And rewrite it. No fairy tales. Be your own narrator. And go for a happy ending. One foot in front of the other. You will make it.”
― Year of Yes
― Year of Yes
![Peter S. Beagle](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1360970921i/1067608._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever; a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.”
― The Last Unicorn
― The Last Unicorn
![Hank Moody](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1369755206i/2358113._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― God Hates Us All
“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.”
― God Hates Us All
![Germany Kent](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1587890777i/8557658._UX200_CR0,12,200,200_.jpg)
“How to win in life:
1 work hard
2 complain less
3 listen more
4 try, learn, grow
5 don't let people tell you it cant be done
6 make no excuses”
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1 work hard
2 complain less
3 listen more
4 try, learn, grow
5 don't let people tell you it cant be done
6 make no excuses”
―
![Margaret Atwood](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1282859073i/3472._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![Mandy Hale](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1540260793i/5623882._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
― The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
![James Goss](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1465598472i/1372374._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Doctor Who: Dead of Winter
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.”
― Doctor Who: Dead of Winter
![Cindy Bonner](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1621872147i/422986.jpg)
“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.”
― The Passion of Dellie O'Barr
― The Passion of Dellie O'Barr
![Edward Abbey](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1516467601i/37218.jpg)
“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.”
― Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
― Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
![Karen Joy Fowler](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1634579213i/1448._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?"
"Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. "I guess I would. I've had about a hundred of them.”
― The Jane Austen Book Club
"Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. "I guess I would. I've had about a hundred of them.”
― The Jane Austen Book Club
![Flannery O'Connor](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1469878767i/22694._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![James Goss](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1465598472i/1372374._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Well, I just get as close as I can to a happy ending, then I shut the door behind me and move on.”
― Doctor Who: Dead of Winter
― Doctor Who: Dead of Winter
“Real is not Dreams, Dreams are not Real,
Unless you find the fine line...and erase it”
― Absolute Obsession
Unless you find the fine line...and erase it”
― Absolute Obsession
![Isabel Greenberg](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1380472186i/6561440._UX200_CR0,8,200,200_.jpg)
“Follow your gut, Storyteller, it will lead to your happy ending.”
― The Encyclopedia of Early Earth
― The Encyclopedia of Early Earth
“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
― The House of Rose
![Margaret Atwood](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1282859073i/3472._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“I wanted happy endings in those days, and happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked and going to sleep during the rampages.”
― The Penelopiad
― The Penelopiad
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