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• There were never going to be any happy endings for me. I know that now. But that is all right.

  S.J. Watson

  Knows

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• Of all the universal lies she accepted unquestioningly, the happy ending was the most absurd. The hero and heroine lived happily ever after, and the ending seemed indisputable, definitive. No questions asked about how long love or happiness lasts in that 'forever' that can be divided into lifetimes, years, months. Even days

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  Lying, Hero, Years

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1996). “The Club Dumas”, Harcourt

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• Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.

  Julia Quinn

  Writing, Know How, Knows

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• Face it. There's not going to be a happy ending... at least not with this hero. So don't go mooning around thinking that your breakup is only the crisis before the big romantic scene, because I'm here to tell you that it's not. When you are dumped, you are dumped, and the guy isn't going to change his mind and realize that suddenly he loves you instead of that girl he's flirting with in lunchroom, now that he's free.

  E. Lockhart

  Girl, Breakup, Love You

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.49, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• I've come with a happy heart from the beginning, and hope there is a happy ending.

  Jaejoong

  Heart, Happy Heart

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• I believe in happy endings," I tell him, "And it feels like this movie has gone on for the right amount of time.

  Matthew Quick

  Believe, Gone, Feels

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places inside us where princes and dragons, wizards and talking birds, impassable roads, impossible tasks, and happy endings have always existed, alive and bursting with psychic power.

  Stephen Mitchell

  Children, Past, Dragons

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• You tell them what a happy ending consists of, which is always individual success. You tell them that nothing irrational exists in this world, which is a lie. You tell them that conflict only exists only to be neatly resolved, and that everyone who is poor wants to be rich, and everyone who is ill wants to get better, and everyone who gets involved in crime comes to a bad end, and that love should be pure. You tell them that despite all this they are special, that the world revolves around them.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Lying, Special, Get Better

  Scarlett Thomas (2010). “Our Tragic Universe”, p.88, Canongate Books

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• Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment.

  Ernst Junger

  Believe, Doe, Able

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• Wherever I go, I'll always see you. You'll always be with me. And there's no happy ending coming here, no way a story that started on a night that's burned into my heart will end the way I wish it could. You're really gone, no last words, and no matter how many letters I write to you, you're never going to reply. You're never going to say good-bye. So I will. Good-bye, Julia. Thank you for being my friend. Thank you for being you.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Writing, Heart, Night

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• Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway. Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious

  E. Lockhart

  Cutting, People, Forgiving

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 3: The Treasure Map of Boys”, p.174, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending.

  P. C. Cast

  Book, Guarantees

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• There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point.

  Peter David

  Fiction, Stories, Ends

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• Happy endings come in different packages

  Jason F. Wright

  Different, Packages

  Jason F. Wright (2007). “The Wednesday Letters: A Novel”

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• It's the oldest story in the world. Boy loves girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back thanks to the unethical behavior of megalomaniacal mad scientists who never met a corpse they wouldn't try to resurrect. Anyone coming within a hundred yards of my happy ending had better pray that they're immune to bullets. - Shaun Mason

  Mira Grant

  Girl, Boys, Mad

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• The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. (Samuel Tarly)

  George R. R. Martin

  Done, Worst

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• Everyone deserves a happy ending.

  Jodi Picoult

  Deserve

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• Lir said, "It is my right. A hero is entitled to his happy ending, when it comes at last." But Schmendrick answered, "This is not the end, either for you or for her.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Hero, Lasts, Ends

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• We'd sit with a big bowl of popcorn, wrapped together in a queen-size blanket, and would escape to a place where magic was ours for the taking, where men rescued the people they loved instead of abandoning them. A place where, no matter how bad things looked at that moment, there would always be a happy ending.

  Jodi Picoult

  Queens, Men, People

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• Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teachers that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.

  Stephen King

  Teacher, Children, Believe

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.1174, Simon and Schuster

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• Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees

  Jodi Picoult

  Tree, Everyday, Grows

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending

  Jodi Picoult

  Real, Thinking, Idiot

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2012). “Between the Lines”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• I've never asked for a happy ending

  Lauren Kate

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• In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Middle, Happy Things

  "A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning". Book by Lemony Snicket, March 17, 2009.

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• No." Mosca bit her lip and shook her head firmly. Books no longer seemed quite enough. I don’t want a happy ending, I want more story.

  Frances Hardinge

  Book, Stories, Want

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