Happy Endings Quotes - Page 7

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

  P. C. Cast

  Book, Guarantees

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• I love a happy ending. They are so rare.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, New Moon, Twilight Movie

  "New Moon". Book by Stephenie Meyer, September 6, 2006.

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• A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there's no guarantee that you will enjoy it, or that it will have a happy ending. Kind of like going out with a girl, having to spend time every day with her - with absolutely no guarantee of nailing her in the end. No thanks.

  Mick Foley

  Girl, Book, Commitment

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• It was wonderful, a stunning happy ending to what began as another tragic rock & roll story, as if Bob Dylan had been arrested in Miami for jacking off in a seedy little XXX theater while stroking the spine of a fat young boy.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Boys, Rocks, Miami

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century”, p.150, Penguin UK

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• Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Heart, Yield

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.19, New World Library

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• You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Book, Sleight Of Hand

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Burned”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• He used to talk to me about Russia all the time and had sworn up and down that I'd love it here. "To you, it'd be like a fairy tale," he'd told me. "Sorry, comrade. Borg and out-of-date music aren't part of any happy ending I've ever imagined." "Borscht, not borg. And I've seen your appetite. If you were hungry enough, you'd eat it." "So starvation's necessary for this fairy tale to work out?

  Richelle Mead

  Sorry, Russia, Work Out

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• What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought to read the book from end to beginning," Owen jokes. "That way, no one dies, and it's always a happy ending.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Reading, Book, Character

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.149, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, People, One Day

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• - the only difference between a happy ending and a sad ending is where you decide the story ends.

  Andrew Kaufman

  Differences, Stories, Ends

  Andrew Kaufman (2011). “The Waterproof Bible”, p.18, Saqi

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• Unhappy endings are just as important as happy endings. They’re an efficient way of transmitting vital Darwinian information. Your brain needs them to make maps of the world, maps that let you know what sorts of people and situations to avoid.

  Douglas Coupland

  People, Brain, Important

  Douglas Coupland (2009). “Generation A: A Novel”, p.219, 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 don't believe in happy endings.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Believe, Don't Believe

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• My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.

  Hope Solo

  Broken, Promise, Next

  Hope Solo (2013). “Solo: A Memoir of Hope”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or an impossible one, and what comes after that.

  Bill McKibben

  Energy, Climate, Impossible

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• Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Chance, Take A Chance

  Twitter post from Jun 13, 2016

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• To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

  Mary McCarthy

  Children, Past, Reality

  Mary McCarthy (2011). “Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood”, p.16, Random House

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• Today, former President Bill Clinton met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il and convinced him to release two American journalists that have been jailed since March. Isn't that great? This is big, yeah. Or as Clinton calls it, another Asian happy ending.

  Conan O'Brien

  Two, President, Asian

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• Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet.

  Angelina Jolie

  Stories, Havens, Finished

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• You cannot have a happy ending to a miserable journey.

  Esther Hicks

  Journey, Miserable

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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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• I’ve had many, you know, happy ending sleepovers’in my early youth — my period of exploration. I think that’s essential. Anyone who hasn’t had a gay moment is probably trying to avoid some confrontation with a reality in their life.

  Ezra Miller

  Gay, Reality, Thinking

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• You were everything, everything that I wanted. We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it. And all of the memories, so close to me, just fade away. All this time you were pretending. So much for my happy ending.

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, Memories, Were Meant To Be

  Song: My Happy Ending, Album: Under My Skin, 2004

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• The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.

  Henry James

  Time, Sauce, Bread

  Theatricals: 2nd Series "Note" (1895)

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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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