Ever After Quotes - Page 2

• Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after.

  Joseph Hall

  Hurt, Revenge, Drones

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• I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to think before they speak!

  Ann Radcliffe

  Night, Thinking, Wish

  Ann Radcliffe (1811). “The Italian or the Confessional of the Black Penitents”, p.265, Lulu.com

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• Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which no-one returned the same. Those returning in such ships were invincible, for they had managed it and could reflect ever after on Anne Hathaway's Cottage or the Tower of London with a confidence that did generate at Sydney. There was nothing mythic at Sydney; momentous objects, beings and events all occurred abroad or in the elsewhere of books.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Wisdom, Book, Europe

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• Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after.

  Mickey Rooney

  Scotch, Once Upon A Time, Stories

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• My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can’t be healthy to live in a land of happily ever afters.

  Colleen Hoover

  Real, Book, Land

  Colleen Hoover (2013). “Hopeless”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn’t want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too.

  Heather King

  People, Want, Knows

  Heather King (2006). “Parched”, p.29, Penguin

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• I dont know about happily ever after... but I know about happily, Weetzie Bat thought.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Bats, Happily Ever After, Knows

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• After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land.

  Jerry Saltz

  Years, Land, Gnarly

  New York Volume 43, Issues 14-21, New York Magazine Company, p. 1, 2010.

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• The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required kit ever afterwards. The important thing was to have the books, not actually read them.

  Peter York

  Book, House, Important

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• All I will tell you is that I play a small role in someone's happily ever after.

  Patty Duke

  Play, Roles, Small Roles

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• There is something infinitely better than happily-ever-after. There is happiness. Happiness is a living, dynamic thing, Eve, and has to be worked on every moment for the rest of our lives. It is a far more exciting prospect than that silly static idea of a happily-ever-after. Would you not agree?" - Aidan Bedwyn

  Mary Balogh

  Silly, Ideas, Moments

  Mary Balogh (2003). “Slightly Married”, p.342, Dell

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• My daughter loved All About Steve movie, because she's 6 feet tall and she's different. And I got a lot of great e-mails from people who are different. I'm a gay icon. I'll just say it. That's what they say to me, so I'll accept it. I got so many e-mails saying that it meant so much to those people. My daughter said, "They didn't like it just because she didn't get the guy! If they had lived happily ever after, people would have liked that movie."

  Beth Grant

  Daughter, Gay, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "But we're alive and together and we're going to be all right.

  Philip Reeve

  Life, Beautiful, Hero

  Philip Reeve (2012). “Predator Cities #1: Mortal Engines”, p.246, Scholastic Inc.

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• Once again, I don’t quite know where I’m headed Steph. It seems that every few years I’m shoveling up the pieces of my life and starting from scratch all over. No matter what I do or how hard I try I can’t seem to reach the dizzy heights of happiness, success, and security, like so many people do. And I’m not talking about becoming a millionaire and living happily ever after. I just mean reaching a point in my life that I can stop what I’m doing, take a look around me, breathe a sigh of relief, and think “I’m where I want to be now.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Mean, Thinking, Sigh Of Relief

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• He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Reading, Knights, Together

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, Candlewick Press

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• This is the most complicated relationship since Romeo and Juliet," she complained. "You're both hopeless. I mean, what is the big problem? You love him. He adores you. You get together and live happily ever after. Any questions? No, of course not. That'll be ten dollars, thank you.

  John Marsden

  Mean, Together, Dollars

  John Marsden (2002). “The Other Side of Dawn”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We need to set goals for ourselves. Start today...if you don't have any goals, make your first goal getting some goals. You probably won't start living happily ever after, but you may start living happily, purposefully, and with gratitude...Goals are gratitude in action. They give us the opportunity to build on what we already have. While achieving goals can be a lengthy process, we can learn to be grateful for each stage in the process of setting and meeting goals.

  Melody Beattie

  Happiness, Gratitude, Grateful

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• Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about marriage is forever happy. There are moments of bliss, to be sure, and lengthy spans of satisfied companionship. Yet these come at no small effort, and the girl who reads such fiction dreaming her troubles will end ere she departs the altar is well advised to seek at once a rational women to set her straight.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Girl, Dream, Couple

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Princess Ben”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?

  Salman Rushdie

  Heart, Loss, Army

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.53, Macmillan

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• Maybe it's a fairy tale, but I believe in happily ever after.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Believe, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty.

  Walt Whitman

  Cities, Liberty, Earth

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Leaves of Grass”, p.21, Xist Publishing

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• I'm Min's fairy godmother, Charm Boy,' Liza said, frowning down at him. 'And if you don't give her a happily ever after, I'm going to come back and beat you to death with a snow globe.' What happened to "bibbity bobbity boo"?' Cal asked Min. That was Disney, honey,' Min said. 'It wasn't a documentary.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Boys, Snow, Giving

  Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Bet Me”, p.384, Macmillan

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• I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. We're all built with illusions. And they break.

  Goldie Hawn

  Children, Truth, Sky

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• My story is definitely going to be a happily ever after, no matter what.

  Rihanna

  Stories, Matter, No Matter What

  "Rihanna wants 'diamonds' to last forever" by Rebecca Thomas, www.mtv.com. November 8, 2012.

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• I opened a book and in I strode.
  Now nobody can find me.
  I've left my chair, my house, my road,
  My town and my world behind me.
  I'm wearing the cloak, I've slipped on the ring,
  I've swallowed the magic potion.
  I've fought with a dragon, dined with a king
  And dived in a bottomless ocean.
  I opened a book and made some friends.
  I shared their tears and laughter
  And followed their road with its bumps and bends
  To the happily ever after.
  I finished my book and out I came.
  The cloak can no longer hide me.
  My chair and my house are just the same,
  But I have a book inside me.

  Julia Donaldson

  Kings, Laughter, Ocean

  Julia Donaldson (2015). “Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum”, p.45, Pan Macmillan

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