Ever After Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.

  Charlaine Harris

  Writing, Romance, Kind

  "Charlaine Harris on True Blood and Vampires That Sparkle". Interview with Andrew Shaffer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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• I don't see love as some perfect happily ever after thing like it is in books and movies. It's more like a bumpy road filled with potholes...and detours. Sometimes we even veer off into the ditch. But the places that road will take you, the things you'll experience, are worth all of the uncertainty.

  Melissa Brown

  Book, Perfect, Bumpy Roads

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• How do you convince someone they're not thinking clearly, when they're not thinking clearly? What we're actually saying is no magic, no afterlife, no higher moral authoritative father-figure, no security, and no happy ever after. This is a tough sell.

  Phil Plait

  Father, Thinking, Afterlife

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• I suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite few. With that behind them, they can ever after say what they have to say in a language 'understand of the people.'

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Jargon, Firsts

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.66, Routledge

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• Always, when you know what you don't want, that's when the rocket of desire is born of what you do want. That is the fruit of your experience. Now pluck it and savor it and enjoy it. Visualize it, and find the feeling place of it. And live happily ever after, once you get the hang of this.

  Esther Hicks

  Happiness, Law Of Attraction, Feelings

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• The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Stronger, Ability

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• I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz should be presented in a more prestigious atmosphere.

  Sonny Rollins

  Atmosphere, Clubs, Jazz

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• There's something about the impact of a big screen that means something to me, even though I realize almost every film is fated to be seen for a year in theaters, and then forever after on television.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Mean, Impact, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.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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• 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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• Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.

  William Hazlitt

  Blow, Roots, Giving

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.488

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• When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.

  Plutarch

  Anger, Battle, Resistance

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.37

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• You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew.

  Richard Baxter

  Doors, Devil, Done

  Richard Baxter (1815). “The poor man's best companion: in plain and familiar dialogues. With forms of prayer for various uses ... By the Rev. Richard Baxter”, p.221

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• Oh! mothers aren't fair - I mean it's not fair of nature to weigh us down with them and yet expect us to be our own true selves. The handicap's too great. All those months, when the same blood's running through two sets of veins - there's no getting away from that, ever after. Take yours. As I say, does she need to open her mouth? Not she! She's only got to let it hang at the corners, and you reek, you drip with guilt.

  Henry Handel Richardson

  Mother, Running, Mean

  Henry Handel Richardson (pseud.) (1934). “The End of a Childhood”

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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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