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Happy-endings Quotes

Have you thought of an ending?""Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant.""Oh, that won't do! B...

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I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, ...

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John Green (author)Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor ...

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And then she began to cry, and when I asked her why she was doing that, she said it was because I wa...

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October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a boo...

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I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.

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Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest

There are no happy endings, he knew, because nothing ends; and if there were any being dispensed, a ...

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You were the one who taught me," he said. "I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the...

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In the end it wins a king's daughter, who is expected to burn its hedgehog-skin at night, and does s...

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A book for children, like the myths and folktales that tend to slide into it, is really a blueprint ...

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

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.