Happily Ever After Quotes - Page 3

• Happily ever after never happens in the second act.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Ever After, Happens

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• Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Fairy Stories, Trying, Way

  Sonya Hartnett (2011). “The Ghost's Child”, p.128, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Minho was the first one to speak since the food had come. “Maybe we should just give in to those shuckfaces. Do what they want. One day we’ll all sit around, fat and happy.” Thomas knew he didn’t mean a word of it. “Yeah, maybe you can find a nice pretty girl who works here, settle down, get married and have kids. Just in time for the world to end in a sea of lunatics.” Minho kept at it. “WICKED’s going to figure out this blueprint business and we’ll all live happily ever after.

  James Dashner

  Girl, Nice, Kids

  James Dashner (2013). “Maze Runner 3: The Death Cure”, p.37, Chicken House

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• “Aren’t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. Pandora’s box is a story parents read to their children at night,” she countered. “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

  Children, Character, Mean

  "The Darkest Night". Book by Gena Showalter, 2008.

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• The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Real Life, Ever After

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary." The sooner we accept that as a fact of life, the better we will be able to adjust to each other and enjoy togetherness. "Happily incompatible" is a good adjustment.

  Billy Graham

  Wisdom, Two, People

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• There are a lot of people out there who will write books, in which everything turns out nicely and the bad guys lose, the good guys win, the boy gets the girl and they live happily ever after. There's a million books like that and if that's the comfort you're looking for, you should read those books and not my books because that's not the kind of book that I am interested in.

  George R. R. Martin

  Girl, Book, Writing

  Source: thesource.com

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• I think sometimes people believe what they want to believe. I personally thought I was going to marry Elton John. I was so out of my mind that I really thought that someday I'd meet him and we'd fall in love and live happily ever after.

  Alice Bag

  Falling In Love, Believe, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• "And they lived happily ever after" is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It's tragic because it's falsehood. It is a myth that has led generations to expect something from marriage that is not possible.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Marriage, Generations, Literature

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• There are two basic defenses for an open ending: one is, If you read carefully enough, you'll know what happened. And the other is, That's how life is: things don't come to neat endings, there isn't a "happily ever after." But if you take that second line of defense, then I think you have to make the point that the writer has shown the range of possibility.

  Lorin Stein

  Thinking, Two, Defense

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The tale of the Monkey Girl gave me wat I needed most at a critical time in my life: the image of the creative and complex woman, unique to herself but willing to share those considerable gifts with a man capable of intuiting the wealth of her worth hidden beneath the skin. But more than that, the Monkey Girl also suggested that I need not be afraid of the fragile happily-ever-after, that I had resources of my own, and that I would not have to contort myself into a restrictive social role for fear of losing that fairytale ending.

  Midori Snyder

  Girl, Unique, Men

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• You can't take sides against anything. If you would just be one who is for things, you would live happily ever after. If you could just leave the "against" part out.

  Esther Hicks

  Sides, Ever After, Ifs

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• Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mean, Forever, Lucky

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• How terrible when people are led to believe, or left to believe, that once they are in love they have nothing to do but live happily ever after, they have nothing further to learn.

  Gerald Vann

  Love, Believe, People

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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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• Learning to heal ruptures is a key to having a successful relationship. Adam and Eve model that for all of us. In Hollywood love is a choice, and you live happily ever after. In real life love is a series of choices. You make the choice to be with a person over and over again.

  Bruce Feiler

  Real, Love Life, Successful

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Few stories are written about what happens to the princess after the wedding. Reading between the lines of other stories, we can sketch out her "happily ever after": The princess gets pregnant and hopes for sons. As long as she is faithful and bears sons, she is considered to be a good wife. We don't hear whether or not she's a good mother, unless something goes wrong with her children.... All of history has been written about the subsequent adventures in the chapters of his life.

  Elizabeth Debold

  Mother, Children, Women

  Elizabeth Debold, Marie C. Wilson, Idelisse Malavé (1993). “Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power”, Da Capo Press

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• The wonderful thing about a TV show is if you get picked up for another season, there's no happily ever after.

  Guy Branum

  Tv Shows, Tvs, Ever After

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• To me 'they lived happily ever after' means to be happy with yourself! My parents always taught me that being happy has to work without Prince Charming. My life is completed without a prince but it's nice of course to have someone who loves you and fights for you.

  Kristen Stewart

  Nice, Love You, Mean

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• I was going to move back to Dallas, and my goal was to work at Channel 8 and be a sportscaster and cover my Cowboys and live happily ever after.

  Chris Harrison

  Moving, Cowboy, Goal

  Source: www.theartofgallivanting.com

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• Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Life Is Short, Car, Twenties

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.371, Vintage

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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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• It’s my own fault, really. For believing in fairy tales. Not that I ever mistook them for actual historical fact, or anything. But I did grow up believing that for every girl, there’s a prince out there somewhere. All she has to do is find him. Then it’s on with the happily ever after. So you can only imagine what happened when I found out. That my prince really IS one. A prince. No, I really mean it. He’s an actual PRINCE.

  Meg Cabot

  Girl, Growing Up, Believe

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Queen of Babble in the Big City”, p.21, Harper Collins

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