Happy Endings Quotes - Page 9

• A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.

  Chita Rivera

  Doe

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Happy Ending I did with Paul Winfield. There was a play- within- the- play and I was his mother - which is a peculiar bit of casting, to say the least.

  Brett Somers

  Mother, Play, Peculiar

  "Somers in the City". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. July 3, 2003.

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• After an exhilarating whitewater ride through America's love-hate relationship with its rivers, Daniel McCool leaves us inspired and hopeful for a happy ending.

  Michael Brune

  Hate, Rivers, America

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• As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in truth, that imagination is of value, that happy endings do, in fact, occur, and that the blue spring mist that make an ugly street look beautiful is just as real a thing as the street itself.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Beautiful, Spring, Real

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• The films I do always have a happy ending. I hope it reflects back to real life.

  Jessica Alba

  Real, Real Life, Film

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• There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'.

  Eoin Colfer

  Dying, Culture, Gravestone

  Eoin Colfer (2009). “And Another Thing...”, Hyperion

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• Please tell me a story about a girl who gets away." I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if I had to make one up just for her. "Gets away from what, though?" "From her fairy godmother. From the happy ending that isn't really happy at all. Please have her get out and run off of the page altogether, to somewhere secret where words like 'happy' and 'good' will never find her." "You don't want her to be happy and good?" "I'm not sure what's really meant by happy and good. I would like her to be free. Now. Please begin.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Girl, Running, Secret

  Helen Oyeyemi (2010). “White is for Witching”, p.165, Pan Macmillan

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• Happy ending are only a pause. There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness redeems the past. Forgiveness unblocks the future.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Revenge, Past, Tragedy

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• ...one of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my optimism and happy endings.

  Kristin Hunter

  Optimistic, Optimism, Wish

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• The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.

  Orson Scott Card

  Opposites, Sometimes, Sad Ending

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• The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot already be wed to the princess when he embarks on his adventures, nor can the boy knock on the witch's door when she is already away on vacation. The wicked uncle cannot be found out and foiled before he does something wicked. Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Uncles, Lying, Hero

  "The Last Unicorn". Book by Peter S. Beagle, 1968.

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• That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile and a tear and a wave. Everyone has learned, found love, seen the error of their ways, discovered the joys of monogamy, or fatherhood, or filial duty, or life itself. In my day, people got shot at the end of films, after learning only that life is hollow, dismal, brutish, and short.

  Nick Hornby

  Errors, People, Joy

  "A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, June 7, 2005.

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• People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.

  Margaret Atwood

  Believe, People, Want

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.240, Anchor

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• And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Doe, Three

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.813, Simon and Schuster

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• [Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. ...Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms...

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Men, Joy

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 2), 1949.

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• Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever; a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Hero, Long, Forever

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

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• I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.

  Matthew Quick

  Believe, Want, Silver

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense, Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.

  E. M. Forster

  Falling In Love, Writing, Men

  "To a Happier Year" by Peter Fulham, www.newyorker.com. June 26, 2013.

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• "Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

  Patrick Ness

  Animal, Wild World, Stories

  "A Monster Calls". Book by Patrick Ness, May 5, 2011.

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• I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I want to show them you can find a way out of it.

  Jacqueline Wilson

  Happy, Children, Hate

  www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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• Oh god
  Let all lovers be content
  Give them happy endings
  Let their lives be celebrations
  Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love

  Rumi

  Love, Heart, Fire

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• The fact was, I didn't know if I was built for happy endings.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Facts, Built, Knows

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• Mirror sighed. "I believe everyone deserves a happily ever after. But I think that happy endings don't just happen by accident- you can't wait for one. You have to make them happen.

  Michael Buckley

  Believe, Thinking, Mirrors

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

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• I'm proud of everybody in our organization. Not every story has a happy ending. Doesn't mean it's a bad story.

  David Blatt

  Mean, Nba Championships, Organization

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• It doesn't always turn out. It's not always a happy ending when sometimes you say things that you think, and it goes against the grain of the larger group.

  Cher

  Thinking, Groups, Sometimes

  "Cher Q&A: On her new tour, 'sloppy' Miley, and leather jackets". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 24, 2013.

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