Happy Endings Quotes - Page 2

• True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.

  Frances Hardinge

  Stories, Want, True Story

  "Fly by Night". Book by Frances Hardinge, October 7, 2005.

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• You want happy endings, read cookbooks.

  Dean Young

  Want, Cookbook

  Dean Young (2007). “Embryoyo”, McSweeneys Books

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• You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Book, Knows, Satisfying

  Source: bookpage.com

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• Happy endings make me puke.

  Roman Polanski

  Puke

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• I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn't mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in such a way that you feel you are a different person when you finish.

  Alice Munro

  Moving, Writing, Mean

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Oct 01, 2014

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• If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Enjoy

  "The Bad Beginning". Book by Lemony Snicket, 1999.

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• If you want a happy ending you have to go out and take it.

  Michael Buckley

  Want, Ifs

  Michael Buckley (2011). “The Sisters Grimm: Book Seven: The Everafter War”, p.214, Abrams

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• So I’m thinking this is the part of my movie where things appear as if nothing is going to work out. I have to remind myself that all movie characters go through this sort of dark period before they find their happy ending.

  Matthew Quick

  Character, Dark, Thinking

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.148, Pan Macmillan

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• There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.

  Stephen King

  Once Upon A Time, Mets, Equal

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• A comedy isn't about being funny," said Mrs. Baker. "We talked about this before." "A comedy is about character who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. That's how I know." "Suppose you can't see it?" "That's the daring part," said Mrs. Baker.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Character, Bakers, May

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.

  Paul Feig

  Mean, Want, Ridiculous

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• I was running the risk in Adventureland, even though we stayed close to the script, because I wanted it to be not a schematic movie. For better or worse, it's not a wish-fulfillment movie. It's got a kind of happy ending, but it's not like I forgot to put on the "Ten years later," and they've got four kids and a dog. Those guys are not together today. It always was leading up to the moment of "Oh, I have my first girlfriend." Credits.

  Greg Mottola

  Running, Dog, Girlfriend

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• The mall tour was right off of my second record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic performance every day in a different mall! One interesting thing I remember is playing "My Happy Ending" a lot, and that song was so new that I remember getting emotional when I would play it.

  Avril Lavigne

  Song, Emotional, Interesting

  "Talking to Avril Lavigne". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. February 25, 2008.

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• My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless... I'm not going to have a happy ending.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Heart, Erratic, Useless

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• Maybe my movie isn't over, I say, because sometimes moviemakers trick the audience with a false bad ending, and just when you think the movie is going to end badly, something dramatic happens, which leads to the happy ending. This seems like a good spot for something dramatic to happen, especially since it's my birthday.

  Matthew Quick

  Thinking, My Birthday, Sometimes

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• I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Kabbalah, Hitting, Belief

  "Crystal clear" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2005.

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• When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.

  Amy Tan

  Wall, Home, House

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.330, Penguin

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• October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Reading, Garden

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• Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.

  Jane Yolen

  Queens, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the happy ending without the ending this might be a reason to try

  David Levithan

  Fall, Sky, Tree

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.122, Egmont UK

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• These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

  Douglas Sirk

  Meaningful, Promise, Rotten

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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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• Each of us may think we know exactly what we need to make us happy, what will be good for us, what will ensure we have our happy ending, but life rarely works out in the way we expect, and our happy ending may have all sorts of unexpected twists and turns, be shaped in all sorts of unexpected ways

  Jane Green

  Thinking, Work Out, Twists

  Jane Green (2006). “Swapping Lives”, p.10, Penguin

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• It was just like him, she thought; with him, a happy ending was always a foregone conclusion. But such was the power of his faith that when she was with him; she found herself believing in happy endings, too.

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Believe, Found, Conclusion

  Sharon Kay Penman (2010). “When Christ and His Saints Slept”, p.282, Macmillan

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• He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll save him, Meggie!" he wispered in her ear. "I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending.I swear!

  Cornelia Funke

  Father, Stories, Ears

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