Ever After Quotes - Page 3

• It was funny, Skip thought, how much attention children demanded the first few years of their lives and how hard adults strove ever after to get their attention.

  Julie Smith

  Children, Years, Adults

  Julie Smith (1996). “House of Blues”, Fawcett

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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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• 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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• 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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• When you think about it, giving up your real personality is a small price to pay for the richness of living happily ever after with an actual man!

  Lynda Barry

  Giving Up, Real, Men

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• I decided to read something I normally hate: a cosy mystery. You know one of those mysteries where everything is tidily wrapped up at the end and everyone lives happily ever after? An Agatha Christie kind of mystery. They are so not my thing. But then someone was raving about Barbara Neely's Blanche White books and they sounded interesting.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Hate, Book, White

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Where else can you go with respect to the work, lyrics, and message of the music? If you are past high school age, you can get by with saying very little the first or second time around. However, after a while you know you are going to have to say something beyond high school stuff.

  Chuck D

  School, Past, Age

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• As a child, I used to feel much more American than Iranian. Like everyone else at school, I pledged allegiance to the flag. However, after returning to Iran, sadly, I learned about a very different America, an America that most Americans have no idea exists. For the first couple of years this was hard to accept, and it was really painful in some ways.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Children, Couple, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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• The narrative for girls is that you just hang around and wait to be "chosen" and then you belong to somebody and you live happily ever after. There isn't room for more nuanced concerns about the creepy proprietary nature of that relationship model, or the breadth of what fulfillment really means for women.

  Lindy West

  Girl, Mean, Waiting

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• However, after the assassination of Salman Taseer, the killer of Salman Taseer was welcomed by the religious fanatics. And they showered rose petals on him and declared him a hero of Islam. That is a matter of concern for every peace-loving citizen of Pakistan because terrorists and killers should not be given this type of encouragement. And this is encouragement for other people to take lives with their own hands and kill innocent people.

  Shahbaz Bhatti

  Encouragement, Religious, Hero

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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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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• I feel like, when we're kids, you're sold into this fairy tale of what love is. That Prince Charming's gonna come along and save you and you're gonna live happily ever after. They're gonna rescue me from the Bronx, and we're gonna go off and live in a castle somewhere and it's gonna be awesome. He's gonna love me forever, and I'm gonna love him forever, and it's gonna be real easy. And it's so different than that.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Real, Kids, Love Is

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• Happily ever after is a concept I'll never believe in.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Believe, Happily Ever After, Concepts

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• If it is the case that love does survive death, then you may consider this to be a happy ending. Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Happily ever after or not.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Girl, Boys, Doe

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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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• As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.

  Julie Andrews

  Hard Work, Rubbish, Married

  The New York Times, March 14, 1982.

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• The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Book, Delight, Youth

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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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• The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness.

  Susan Faludi

  Waiting, Doe, Fairy Tale

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• For as a city which has been once besieged and not sacked will ever after be more strong to hold out if it be assaulted by the like danger.... so those who are besieged and assaulted by their spiritual enemies will ever after more carefully arm themselves against them with the graces of God's Spirit, that they may not be overcome nor foiled by them.

  George Downame

  Spiritual, Strong, Prayer

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• All I asked was, where do I sign? Some of the other navy men said I was rooting for the war to last forever. (after Browns gave him a monthly stipend during the war)

  Otto Graham

  Football, War, Men

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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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• 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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• 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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