Happy Endings Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible. Page 1.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  People, Needs, Pages

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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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• 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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• Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Mean, Two

  "The great unknown". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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• I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

  Edward Abbey

  Believe, Hopeful, Reason

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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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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• 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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• 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 find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.

  Joe Wright

  Ironic, Fairytale, Fairytale Ending

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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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• An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me... And you know, people like happy endings.

  Elinor Lipman

  Book, Writing, Intelligent

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• Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

  Oliver Gaspirtz

  Real, Grief, Tragedy

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• Life is a movie, and you're the star. Give it a happy ending.

  Joan Rivers

  Stars, Giving, Life Is

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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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• FlashForward was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked like, one day a week, and it paid the same as Happy Endings. I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.

  Zachary Knighton

  Beautiful, Fun, One Day

  "Happy Endings' Zachary Knighton talks comedy and T-shirts". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. April 4, 2012.

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• If you like books with happy endings then put this book down immediately.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Ifs

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• There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories - perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years - and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on.

  Charles de Lint

  Years, Stories, Goes On

  Charles De Lint (2000). “Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks”, Subterranean

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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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• 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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• 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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• After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.

  Lionel Trilling

  Taken, Curtains, Tragic

  Lionel Trilling (1963). “Matthew Arnold”

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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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• 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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