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I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then. -- Jimmy Buffett
And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after. -- Piper Laurie
I want to get married and have children and live happily ever after. That's important to me. -- Cory Monteith
And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after. -- Gail Carson Levine
I think we ought to live happily ever after. -- Diana Wynne Jones
I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy. -- Charlaine Harris
My story is definitely going to be a happily ever after, no matter what. -- Rihanna
A peace agreement isn't like a fairy story. You don't live happily ever after. -- Jonathan Powell
My original business plan? To work hard, get 300 clients in the Rochester area, and live happily ever after. -- Tom Golisano
No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves. -- Stephen King
Is not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It's the fact that I live happily ever after. -- Cecelia Ahern
We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales. -- Yakov Smirnoff
All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of making their marriages happy." -- Linda Miles
After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love quickly with their charming princes and 'live happily ever after.' -- Mohamed El-Erian
I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after! -- Mercedes McCambridge
When you think about it, giving up your 'real' personality is a small price to pay for the richness of 'living happily ever after' with an actual man! -- Lynda Barry
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
As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish. -- Julie Andrews
The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal. -- Salvador Minuchin
One would like to say in the aftermath of the 2008 election that everyone lived happily ever after. But the American drama, especially when it involves race, is always more complicated than that. -- Frank Rich
One of the most common criticisms of romance is that the genre is too prescribed: If every romance novel ends happily ever after, don't the stories lack complexity? Don't the readers get bored? -- Sarah MacLean
I love that very traditional fairy tale where it's not all 'happily ever after.' I like all that old school, bloody, 'Brothers Grimm' sort of stuff. So you have all those shades of gray in there. -- Erin Morgenstern
It's true that romance novels do detail the courtship phase of a relationship. We usually write 'And they lived happily ever after' before our heroine starts snoring or our hero starts tossing his socks over the hamper. -- Teresa Medeiros
There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three. -- Bill Condon
People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ?" I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning. -- Jodi Picoult
Sometimes you go into an audition and you'll do what you think the character is, and then if they agree, then it's awesome and you'll book it maybe, and you'll live happily ever after. But sometimes they don't agree. -- Shanley Caswell
But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have ot believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That's why I write these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS. -- Taylor Swift
I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after. -- Cat Stevens
Throughout any given season of 'The Bachelor,' the women exclaim that the experience is like a fairy tale. They suffer the machinations of reality television, pursuing - along with several other women, often inebriated - the promise of happily ever after. -- Roxane Gay
In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you'd get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it's hard work, almost harder once you're successful because you've got to maintain it. -- Steven Wright
Real ugly endings are better than fake happily ever after's -- Colleen Hoover
The same as real life, there is no happily ever after. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Maybe it's a fairy tale, but I believe in happily ever after. -- Jennifer Aniston
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis. -- Margaret Wander Bonanno
Every cell in my body was telling me that he was my happily ever after. -- C.J. English
Do you know why happily ever after is a lie?" Snow asked. "Because life is change. -- Jim C. Hines
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All I will tell you is that I play a small role in someone's happily ever after. -- Patty Duke
The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after, -- Lois Lowry
There's no such thing as handsome princes, she told herself. There's no such thing as happily ever after. -- Rainbow Rowell
If you would stop analyzing everything and just look for things to appreciate, you would live happily ever after. -- Esther Hicks
I tell myself relationships are hard work. No one is perfect. There's no such thing as happily ever after. -- Laura Nowlin
And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy...) -- Sarah Rees Brennan
You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after. -- Taylor Swift
I didn't want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too. -- Heather King
The wonderful thing about a TV show is if you get picked up for another season, there's no happily ever after. -- Guy Branum
Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after. -- Arthur Phillips
Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after? -- J. R. R. Tolkien
...I can't promise you that we will live 'happily ever after'....however..I can promise you the adventure of a lifetime. -- H. R. Kasper
How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn't it? -- Elizabeth Gilbert
There is no need for revenge. Living happily ever after is a sign that you have not let the past beat you. -- Leon Brown
My one true love. My deformed or mutilated or diseased prince charming. My unhappily ever after. My hideous future. The monstrous rest of my life. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Maybe there was no happily ever after [...] but there was happiness sometimes and she had it now, doing what she knew she was born for. -- Jeanne DuPrau
Mr. Wonka: "Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted." Charlie Bucket: "What happened?" Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after. -- Roald Dahl
[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived. -- Richard Peck
After going through years of litigation to get royalties due to him, the guy who coined the term 'happily ever after' lived reasonably well for a while. -- Demetri Martin
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I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could have a happily ever after. -- Amanda Hocking
When you think about it, giving up your real personality is a small price to pay for the richness of living happily ever after with an actual man! -- Lynda Barry
I was going to move back to Dallas, and my goal was to work at Channel 8 and be a sportscaster and cover my Cowboys and live happily ever after. -- Chris Harrison
But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going. -- Chris Kyle
You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "But we're alive and together and we're going to be all right. -- Philip Reeve
I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe that particular delusion was universal. -- Robin Wasserman
You can't take sides against anything. If you would just be one who is for things, you would live happily ever after. If you could just leave the "against" part out. -- Esther Hicks
I'm not a sucker for happily ever afters, but if these two characters don't get theirs I might climb inside this e-reader and lock them both inside that damn garage forever. -- Colleen Hoover
He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after. -- Kate DiCamillo
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
It is known (to some) that by dwelling in the present, conceding what is necessary to past and future, but no more than is necessary, it is quite possible to live happily ever after -- Edgar Pangborn
How terrible when people are led to believe, or left to believe, that once they are in love they have nothing to do but live happily ever after, they have nothing further to learn. -- Gerald Vann
Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after, like two dolls in a museum case never bothered by diapers or dust, never arguing over the timing of an egg, never telling the same story twice.... -- Anne Sexton
I think the barrier for a lot of people to actual, real, lasting love is the fantasy. The problem is that we think in "happily ever after" love, but real love grows over time, and priorities change. -- Marti Noxon
Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books. -- Ellen Hopkins
"And they lived happily ever after" is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It's tragic because it's falsehood. It is a myth that has led generations to expect something from marriage that is not possible. -- Joshua L. Liebman
Even when your dream that you set out comes true, it's not always perfect, and there isn't always the kiss at the end, and we all get to live happily ever after. That's not the reality of life. -- Emma Stone
Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after. -- Mickey Rooney
And though I was currently living a fairy tale, some part of my soul knew that happiness couldn't last forever. I didn't deserve a happily ever after, and there weren't many other cards to play when that was the truth. -- Alysha Speer
If you want to be alive and live in a real world, if you want to have any emotions at all in your life, you must willingly, knowingly, repeatedly set yourself up for things possibly not ending up 'happily ever after. -- Loni Anderson
It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank. -- Simon Travaglia
I'm used to writing fairy tales that can be somewhat dark, and the truth is that in fairy tales, romances are always problematic. They may end happily ever after, but someone's getting pushed into an oven or has blood in her shoe. -- Theodora Goss
Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying. -- Sonya Hartnett
What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year. -- Scott Westerfeld
I felt like the end of an A-Team episode when everything worked out, and the heroes all got to go home and live happily ever after while the bad guys were put in jail. Except of course, I was the bad guy.Whatever. -- Shay Savage
Time was too much a part of love, for even in fairytales the proof of love was not its first moment, but its latest ones - that people lived happily ever after. Love at first sight was nothing but infatuation until proved by time ... -- Margaret Mahy
Happy endings are absolutely ludicrous, they're not true at all. We see the guy carry the girl across the threshold and everybody lives happily ever after -- that's bullshit. Three weeks later he's beating her up and she's suing for divorce and he's got cancer. -- Robert Altman
After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land. -- Jerry Saltz
Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after. -- Vladimir Nabokov
They (penguins) then fall madly in love and live happily ever after.-And so you ask yourself: "If a penguin can have a worthwhile, stimulating relationship, why the hell can't I?"-Or maybe you ask yourself: "Would I be happier if I started dating a penguin -- Bradley Trevor Greive
I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. We're all built with illusions. And they break. -- Goldie Hawn
I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something resembling a happily ever after. I am supposed to be above such flights of fantasy, but I am not. I am enamored of fairy tales. -- Roxane Gay
This is the most complicated relationship since Romeo and Juliet," she complained. "You're both hopeless. I mean, what is the big problem? You love him. He adores you. You get together and live happily ever after. Any questions? No, of course not. That'll be ten dollars, thank you. -- John Marsden
To me 'they lived happily ever after' means to be happy with yourself! My parents always taught me that being happy has to work without Prince Charming. My life is completed without a prince but it's nice of course to have someone who loves you and fights for you. -- Kristen Stewart
Once upon a time there was a girl." "Not a princess?!" "No, definitely not! She was too smart to be a princess. Tough too...Stronger than anyone realized." "Does she live happily ever after?" "Shouldn't there be something in the middle?" "I like to read the ending first." (Wicked Lovely) -- Melissa Marr
You know, nothing is ever happily-ever-after. Ever. -- Charisma Carpenter
I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories. -- Richard LaGravenese
There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness. -- Mary Balogh
That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true. -- Marc Webb
I blame Hollywood for skewing perspectives. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them, and if you meet cute, happily ever-after is a forgone conclusion. -- Jonathan Tropper
True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, "I'm not afraid to believe in you. -- Cara Lockwood
No matter how troubled a character's history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it, and happily-ever-after can result. What's more, the darker the past, the brighter the future - and the better the read. -- Sarah MacLean
Always, when you know what you don't want, that's when the rocket of desire is born of what you do want. That is the fruit of your experience. Now pluck it and savor it and enjoy it. Visualize it, and find the feeling place of it. And live happily ever after, once you get the hang of this. -- Esther Hicks
In fairy tales there's always one person who is made for one other, and they find each other and live happily ever after. Cal was my person. I couldn't imagine anyone more perfect. Yet what kind of sick fairy tale would it be if he was the one made exactly right for me and I wasn't right for him? -- Cate Tiernan
It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, They lived happily ever after and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work. -- Nora Ephron
Damn Disney & all their happily-after-ever, unrealistic bullshit stories -- Jillian Dodd
Happily Ever After starts every time you woke up. -- T.A
Happily ever after never happens in the second act. -- Boyd K. Packer
Happily ever after is a concept I'll never believe in. -- Ellen Hopkins
Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy. -- Rainbow Rowell
I think we deserve a happily-ever-after." "If anyone ever did, it's us. -- Jodi Picoult
But in real life, happily-ever-after is just the beginning. It's where life starts. -- Kay Hooper
And everyone lived happily, thought maybe not completely honestly, ever after. The End. -- Jon Scieszka
Happily ever after doesn't come easy. But for love, it's always worth the fight. -- M. Leighton
Happily ever after doesn't begin with Once upon a time: it begins with Now. -- Stephen Mitchell
I hope you smile, laugh, and maybe even learn something that will help you along the way to happily-ever-after. -- T.N. Carpenter
Why does it have to be so hard? Why can't it be a happily-ever-after ride-into-the-sunset feeling all the time? -- Rick Riordan
Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes the story worth telling. -- Chris Colfer
And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent treatments, and unexpected calamities) ever after. -- Jean Ferris
I`ve realized that in all the great stories, even if there`s a happily-ever-after ending, there`s something sad. -- Emma Thompson
Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. -- Alice Hoffman
That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after. -- Gena Showalter
As a self-respecting dude, I'd never believed in fairy tales, but in that moment, I did. I'd found my angel to live happily-ever-after with. -- Katie Ashley

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