Happily Ever After Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Happily ever after never happens in the second act.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Ever After, Happens

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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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• 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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• "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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Life isn't happily ever after... It's work. The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that and maybe no one deserves that burden of it, either. You'll be let down. You'll be disappointed and have your trust broken and have a lot of real sucky days. You lose more than you win. You hate the person you love as much as you love him. But you roll up your sleeves and work - at everything - because that's what growing older is.

  Dennis Lehane

  Real, Hate, Winning

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• She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read only romance novels. Because, by God, when a woman picked up one of those steamy books, she had a firm guarantee that there would be a Happily-Ever-After. That though the world outside those covers could bring such sorrow and disappointment and loneliness, between those covers, the world was a splendid place to be.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Disappointment, Loneliness, Book

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Oct 27, 2014

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