Happily Ever After Quotes - Page 5

• Happily ever after is a concept I'll never believe in.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Believe, Ever After, Concepts

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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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• Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.

  Arthur Phillips

  Lying, Love Is, Stories

  Arthur Phillips (2010). “The Song is You”, p.270, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• [A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.

  Richard Peck

  New Beginnings, Adults, Ever After

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• I'm used to writing fairy tales that can be somewhat dark, and the truth is that in fairy tales, romances are always problematic. They may end happily ever after, but someone's getting pushed into an oven or has blood in her shoe.

  Theodora Goss

  Writing, Dark, Shoes

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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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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• 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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• The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness.

  Susan Faludi

  Waiting, Doe, Fairy Tale

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• My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can’t be healthy to live in a land of happily ever afters.

  Colleen Hoover

  Real, Book, Land

  Colleen Hoover (2013). “Hopeless”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.

  Julie Andrews

  Hard Work, Rubbish, Married

  The New York Times, March 14, 1982.

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• Like many people, I consider myself an incurable romantic, and there is a part of me that will always believe in walking off into the sunset to live happily ever after. When I was younger, like many children, I assumed I would get married, live in a nice house, and have a couple of kids. I also assumed this very traditional achievement would bring me endless happiness and romance. So much so, that during my college years I considered girls engaged by graduation to be the epitome of success. Perhaps needless to say, I was not one of those girls.

  Robi Ludwig

  Girl, Children, Couple

  Robi Ludwig, Matt Birkbeck (2006). “'Till Death Do Us Part: Love, Marriage, and the Mind of the Killer Spouse”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Real, Mean, Years

  Scott Westerfeld (2014). “Afterworlds”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is easy, and life can be extremely tough, but there's always a yin to the yang, so to speak. It's up to you to seek it out, embrace it, and live happily ever after. No matter how bad the hand you've been dealt may seem, there's always a way to play it.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Hands, Play, Up To You

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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, Ever After, Knows

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• If you want to be alive and live in a real world, if you want to have any emotions at all in your life, you must willingly, knowingly, repeatedly set yourself up for things possibly not ending up 'happily ever after.

  Loni Anderson

  Real, Alive, World

  Loni Anderson (1995). “My Life in High Heels”, William Morrow & Company

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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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• When you think about it, giving up your real personality is a small price to pay for the richness of living happily ever after with an actual man!

  Lynda Barry

  Giving Up, Real, Men

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• As a self-respecting dude, I'd never believed in fairy tales, but in that moment, I did. I'd found my angel to live happily-ever-after with.

  Katie Ashley

  Angel, Self, Fairy Tale

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• Cinderella and the prince
  lived, they say, happily ever after,
  like two dolls in a museum case
  never bothered by diapers or dust,
  never arguing over the timing of an egg,
  never telling the same story twice.

  Anne Sexton

  Happiness, Marriage, Museums

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• The narrative for girls is that you just hang around and wait to be "chosen" and then you belong to somebody and you live happily ever after. There isn't room for more nuanced concerns about the creepy proprietary nature of that relationship model, or the breadth of what fulfillment really means for women.

  Lindy West

  Girl, Mean, Waiting

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• We need to set goals for ourselves. Start today...if you don't have any goals, make your first goal getting some goals. You probably won't start living happily ever after, but you may start living happily, purposefully, and with gratitude...Goals are gratitude in action. They give us the opportunity to build on what we already have. While achieving goals can be a lengthy process, we can learn to be grateful for each stage in the process of setting and meeting goals.

  Melody Beattie

  Happiness, Gratitude, Grateful

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• I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. We're all built with illusions. And they break.

  Goldie Hawn

  Children, Truth, Sky

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• The vibration of appreciation is also the highest, fastest vibration we can use for attraction. If we would shoot appreciation at anything and everything, all day long, we'd be guaranteed to have heaven on earth in no time, living happily ever after with more friends, more money, more beautiful relationships, in total safety, and closer to the God of our Being than it's possible to fathom.

  Lynn Grabhorn

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Long

  Lynn Grabhorn (2009). “Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings”, p.104, Hampton Roads Publishing

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