Ever After Quotes - Page 5

• I think we deserve a happily-ever-after." "If anyone ever did, it's us.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Ifs, Deserve

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.1036, Simon and Schuster

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• Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at the wrong time and in the wrong way. Oh, the fruit is good, but they loath it ever after.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Nephew, Way

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol VI: The Magician's Nephew”, p.136, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

  Mary Balogh

  Running, Happily Ever After

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• Have you thought of an ending?' 'Yes , several, and all are dark and unpleasant,' said Frodo. 'Oh , that won't do!' said Bilbo. '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 comes to that,' said Frodo.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Book, Dark, Together

  "The Lord of the Rings: One Volume".

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• And should I not, had I but known, have flung the machine this way and that, once more to feel it live under my hand, have sported in the sky and laughed and sung, knowing that never after should I feel so free, so sure in hazard, so secure, riding the daylight in the pride of youth? No more horizons wider than Hope! No more the franchise of the sky, the freedom of the blue! No more! Farewell to wings! Down to the little earth!

  Cecil Arthur Lewis

  Farewell, Pride, Knowing

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• That's the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. You get married and have kids and live happily ever after.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Falling In Love, Love You, Kids

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.86, Bantam

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• Maybe there was no happily ever after [...] but there was happiness sometimes and she had it now, doing what she knew she was born for.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Sometimes, Happily Ever After, Born

  Jeanne DuPrau (2016). “The City of Ember Complete Series”, p.641, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness. We believe in chastity before marriage and fidelity ever after. That standard is an absolute standard of truth. It is neither subject to public opinion polls nor dependent upon situation or circumstance. There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Mistake, Believe, Political

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• Once more September marveled that even the Dodo knew what she wanted to be when she was grown. She simply could not think what she herself might do. September expected that destinies, which is how she thought of professions, simply landed upon one like a crown, and ever after no one questioned or fretted over it, being sure of one’s own use in the world. It was only that somehow her crown had not yet appeared. She did hope it would hurry up.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Thinking, Destiny, Use

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• And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Happiness, Girl, Pain

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• Why does it seem to be more and more challenging to find a perfect mate or maintain a happy and compatible relationship? Was love always this difficult? Haven't we heard stories of people being truly fulfilled and happy in love? Is love a myth? There are more people on the planet than ever before, and traveling the world has never been easier. Not only that; now we can use technologies like the Internet to connect with others. So what is the problem? Why does it seem to be more complicated than ever to meet the right person and live happily ever after?

  Pamala Oslie

  Love, Technology, Perfect

  Pamala Oslie (2010). “Love Colors: A New Approach to Love, Relationships, and Auras”, p.3, New World Library

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• Such as are betrayed by their easy nature to be ordinary security for their friends leave so little to themselves, as their liberty remains ever after arbitrary at the will of others; experience having recorded many, whom their fathers had left elbowroom enough, that by suretyship have expired in a dungeon.

  Frances Osborne

  Father, Liberty, Ordinary

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• I realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on the fairy tale "Seeping Beauty," which instructs young women that if they just wait for their prince to arrive, they will be kissed and whisked away on a white horse to live happily ever after. Now young women are told that if they can just find the right mentor, they will be pushed up the ladder and whisked away to the corner office to live happily ever after. Once again, we are teaching women to be too dependent on others.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Horse, Teaching, White

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• Coleridge received the Person from Porlock
  And ever after called him a curse,
  Then why did he hurry to let him in?
  He could have hid in the house.

  Stevie Smith

  Poetry, House, Curse

  Stevie Smith (1988). “New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• I think the barrier for a lot of people to actual, real, lasting love is the fantasy. The problem is that we think in "happily ever after" love, but real love grows over time, and priorities change.

  Marti Noxon

  Real, Love Is, Thinking

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Cheesy, Together, Fangirl

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl: A Novel”, p.387, Macmillan

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• The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Race, Tasks, Nuclear

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.130, I.B.Tauris

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• Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a let-down, but rather, a reminder that the standards which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much - much is forever after expected.

  Alvan Macauley

  Truth, Character, Giving

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• You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after.

  Taylor Swift

  Believe, Stories, Love Story

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• An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Beauty, Winning, Grace

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.91

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• Life is not static. If life were static there would be no need for meditation. The mind would do. Then you could think, and whenever, after many lives, you knocked at the door, the girl would be waiting for you. But life is a flux, a movement. Every moment it is changing and becoming new. If you miss a moment, you have missed.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Girl, Thinking

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• I do believe in happy-ever-after.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Believe, Happy Ever After

  "It's Not Easy Being A Billionaire Heiress Lingerie Model" by Nigel Farndale, www.businessinsider.com. September 25, 2012.

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• But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going.

  Chris Kyle

  Real, Perfect, Lines

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• You actually do confront your dark side, your impulses, or your feelings of sibling rivalry in Cinderella or whatever. You admit that they exist and then you work through them and conquer them and come out living happily ever after having learned something. That's one reason why the fairy tales keep having traction and meaning.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Sibling, Dark, Feelings

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• Happy endings are absolutely ludicrous, they're not true at all. We see the guy carry the girl across the threshold and everybody lives happily ever after -- that's bullshit. Three weeks later he's beating her up and she's suing for divorce and he's got cancer.

  Robert Altman

  Girl, Cancer, Divorce

  Robert Altman, David Sterritt (2000). “Robert Altman: Interviews”, p.166, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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