Ever After Quotes - Page 7

• Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.

  Rupert Sanders

  Once Upon A Time, Stories, Happy Ever After

  "Snow White & The Huntsman director Rupert Sanders is living the fairy tale". Interview with Francesca Babb, www.theguardian.com. June 01, 2012.

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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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• I have always been quite good at falling in love, but I don't pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters. 

  Jennifer Harrison

  Falling In Love, Knows, Literal

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• And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there is no "happily"; in the story of a Witch, there is no afterword. Of that part that is beyond the life story, beyond the story of the life, there is-alas, or perhaps thank mercy-no telling. She was dead, dead, and gone, and all that was left of her was the carapace of her reputation for malice.

  Gregory Maguire

  Wicked, Gone, Stories

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• Happily ever after doesn't come easy. But for love, it's always worth the fight.

  M. Leighton

  Fighting, Happily Ever After, Easy

  "Up to Me (The Bad Boys)". Book by M. Leighton, January 2013.

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• Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Opportunity, Night, Men

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• Do you know why happily ever after is a lie?" Snow asked. "Because life is change.

  Jim C. Hines

  Lying, Snow, Life Is

  Jim C. Hines (2010). “Red Hood's Revenge”, p.231, Penguin

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• I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could have a happily ever after.

  Amanda Hocking

  You Make Me Happy, Care, Make You Happy

  Amanda Hocking (2012). “Torn”, p.188, Pan Macmillan

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• HAPPY EVER AFTER is a concept I'll never believe in. I would be content to sample some little taste of happiness today, tonight, right now. Though I know without a doubt that tomorrow will come saturated with pain. Life is like that. At least my life. And honestly, I cant think of anyone whose life is any different. The price tag for joy is misery. [...]

  Ellen Hopkins

  Pain, Believe, Thinking

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• That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.

  Gena Showalter

  Character, Mean, And Love

  Gena Showalter (2014). “Lords of the Underworld Collection 1: The Darkest Night\The Darkest Kiss\The Darkest Pleasure”, p.272, Harlequin

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• People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ?" I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.

  Jodi Picoult

  Real, Wind, People

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• She wanted happily ever after more than he could possibly know. She wanted forever. Problem was, she just wasn’t sure she believed in it anymore. It was why she clung to her fiction so much. She immersed herself in books because there she could be anyone and it was easy to believe in love and happily ever after

  Maya Banks

  Believe, Book, Forever

  Maya Banks (2012). “Shades of Gray: A KGI Novel”, p.92, Penguin

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• Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Book, Together, Down And

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give courage and a heart, an angel with a white stone that has written on it our true and secret name, and it is so easy to dismiss it all that it is hardly worth bothering to do. ... But if the world of the fairy tale and our glimpses of it here and there are only a dream, they are one of the most haunting and powerful dreams that the world has ever dreamed.

  Frederick Buechner

  Dream, Powerful, Book

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• The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.

  Lois Lowry

  World, Fairy Tale, Tales

  Lois Lowry (1989). “Number the Stars”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There’s no such thing as handsome princes, she told herself. There’s no such thing as happily ever after.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Handsome, Happily Ever After

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.275, St. Martin's Griffin

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• 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.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Happiness, Two, People

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.648, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes the story worth telling.

  Chris Colfer

  Journey, Once Upon A Time, Stories

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• Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after - lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.

  Louise Erdrich

  Life, Death, Heart

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.197, Odyssey Editions

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• There is no need for revenge. Living happily ever after is a sign that you have not let the past beat you.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Revenge, Past

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• I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

  Monica Seles

  Tennis, Tough, Realizing

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• I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Astrology, Zenith

  1611 Prospero to Miranda.The Tempest, act1, sc.2, l.182-5.

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• He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.

  Herbert Kalmus

  Christmas, Men, Principles

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• Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to and take as your guide.

  Gautama Buddha

  Teacher, Buddhist, Believe

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• The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand.

  Madeline Tiger Bass

  Inspiring, Gratitude, Sweet

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