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I like happy endings. -- Harmon Killebrew
There are no happy endings. -- George R. R. Martin
I don't believe in happy endings. -- Jeanette Winterson
I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings. -- George R. R. Martin
There are no happy endings there are only happy people. -- Dorothy Gilman
I'm incredibly cheesy. I'm all about happy endings and all of that. -- Rebecca Mader
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass. -- Isaac Asimov
My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children. -- Glen Duncan
A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings. -- Judith McNaught
That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings. -- Alice Munro
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. -- William Dean Howells
My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl. -- Chuck Palahniuk
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. -- Orson Welles
I love watching movies with happy endings or anything with Steve Martin or stuff like that. -- Bonnie Tyler
And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings. -- Stephen King
I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life. -- Tammara Webber
I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings. -- Joe Wright
There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start. -- Shel Silverstein
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
I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life. -- George Clooney
Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life. -- Joe Wright
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel. -- Michael Morpurgo
I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time. I believe very few people want to hurt others. I believe that you can be surprised by life. I believe in happy endings. -- Isabel Gillies
Stories don't always have happy endings. -- Patrick Ness
You want happy endings, read cookbooks. -- Dean Young
happy endings start with new beginnings. -- Luanne Rice
There are no happy endings, because nothing ends. -- Peter S. Beagle
Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings. -- Barbara Corcoran
Unhappy endings can be as cheap as happy endings. -- David O. Russell
You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books. -- Ellen Hopkins
There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action. -- Lauren Oliver
Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible. -- Charles Haughey
If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now. -- Stephenie Meyer
Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees -- Jodi Picoult
The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about. -- Tammy Wynette
I don't believe in happy endings but I believe in happy journeys. -- George Clooney
The fact was, I didn't know if I was built for happy endings. -- Maggie Stiefvater
If you like books with happy endings then put this book down immediately. -- Daniel Handler
Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories. -- Kristin Hannah
Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between -- Kristen Bell
If we told every story from the middle, we would never appreciate happy endings. -- Jessica Brody The Karma Club
Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won. -- Terri Windling
People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible. Page 1. -- Sonia Sotomayor
When your parents split up, it's impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings. -- Jennifer Aniston
Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings. -- Neil Gaiman
If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book. -- Daniel Handler
A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending. -- Chita Rivera
You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous. -- Larry Gelbart
The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. (Samuel Tarly) -- George R. R. Martin
In this life ain't no happy endings; Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance. -- J. Cole
You can't just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks. -- Nora Roberts
There were never going to be any happy endings for me. I know that now. But that is all right. -- S.J. Watson
That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray. -- Emily Giffin
At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started. -- Jonathan Tropper
I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings. -- Matthew Quick
I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings. -- Joe Eszterhas
This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can't imagine a life without. Breathless moments. -- Selena Gomez
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
I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings. -- Edward Abbey
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
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings. -- Garry Trudeau
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
These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition. -- Douglas Sirk
...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
Do you like foreign films?" "With subtitles?" "Yes." "I hate those types of films." "Me too," Cliff says. "Mostly because - " "No happy endings. -- Matthew Quick
Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied. -- Steven Weber
I am not a great believer in fairy tales. Every woman should fight hard for her own happy endings. Although occasionally it is nice to wake up as a princess. -- Donatella Versace
I'd love for readers to read what books are about so that if they are expecting happy endings in dark horror novels, they won't reach for the Vallium or something worse! -- Carole Gill
Would you like to hear my story, Bella? It doesn't have a happy ending - but which of ours does? If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now. -- Stephenie Meyer
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
Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings. -- Ray Bradbury
The tragedies of our past are the stepping stones for us to reach the happy endings of our tomorrows. Guilt is not going to help you become a better person. Acceptance will. -- Yara Greathouse
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
If life teaches anything at all it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes that there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question. -- Stephen King
Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins. -- Darren Shan
All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop.She's realized the real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death. -- Neil Gaiman
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
People generally like happy endings, which is something I learned from my years in advertising. I like happy endings myself, but only if they're honest. I'm just as happy with a terrible, hopeless ending. -- Augusten Burroughs
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
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
The bourgeoisie loves so-called "positive" types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one's innocence, to be a beast and still be happy. -- Anton Chekhov
I personally, as a teenager, didn't like books I felt were trying to preach to me... I did not believe in happy endings. I wanted to read books which reflected life as I thought I knew it. -- Malorie Blackman
I've spent a lot of time in my life dedicating myself to love or the pursuit of love or the understanding of love. And now I've stopped believing in happy endings and I've started believing in good days. -- Drew Barrymore
It was just like him, she thought; with him, a happy ending was always a foregone conclusion. But such was the power of his faith that when she was with him; she found herself believing in happy endings, too. -- Sharon Kay Penman
The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,' and I really don't like that. There's enough misery and bad things happening in the world. -- Ruth Glick
When we're young, we like happy endings. When we're a little older, we think happy endings are unrealistic and so we prefer bad but credible endings. When we're older still, we realize happy endings aren't so bad after all. -- Margaret Atwood
If you wake up for a moment and look around at life, you will observe that nothing here lasts, nothing works out. There are no happy endings. All accomplishments are washed away by death or by the next moment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids. -- Angelina Jolie
Though I am not an avid reader but I like romantic books. Love is a good thing. At times in love, there are disappointmentsâ?¦one must not keep expectations. I like to be positive in love. I believe in happy endings. -- Katrina Kaif
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Despite their exhaustion and worries, Miner and Ennek made love that night, tracing fingers and tongues over one another's marks and scars. Their bodies were like books, Ennek thought, and their stories could be read inch by inch. He hoped fervently for happy endings. -- Kim Fielding
All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is a small, pointless death. Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings; it casts them off the way the body's immunological system casts off transplanted organs. -- Janet Malcolm
I don't believe in happy endings. Children have got to face death sooner or later. Granny and Grandpa die, dogs die, cats die, gerbils and those frightful things - what are they called? - hamsters: all die like flies. So there's no point avoiding it. -- Raymond Briggs
You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?" "Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. "I guess I would. I've had about a hundred of them. -- Karen Joy Fowler
What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn't it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with happy endings? Suspend your disbelief? Take a leap of faith? After all, what have you got to lose but misery and lack? -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
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
I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings. -- Rufus Wainwright
An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me... And you know, people like happy endings. -- Elinor Lipman
Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love. -- Andrew Solomon
I used to feel defensive when people would say, 'Yes, but your books have happy endings', as if that made them worthless, or unrealistic. Some people do get happy endings, even if it's only for a while. I would rather never be published again than write a downbeat ending. -- Marian Keyes
And we carry onWhen our lives come undoneWe carry onCause there's promise in the morning sunWe carry onAs the dark surrenders to the dawnWe were born to overcomeWe carry onBeyond the picket fences and the oil wellsThe happy endings and the fairy talesIs the reality of shattered lives and broken dreamsWe carry on -- Tim McGraw
All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists. -- Fred Brooks
If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters. -- Daniel Handler
People relate to things that feel real to them. All the good, happy, over-sexed and moneyed endings on TV are not the way most of us feel in our lives. The success of 'E.R.,' I think, is not relying on overly sentimental stories that are solved where people's lives wrap up nicely with happy endings. -- Anthony Edwards
If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings quite yet, if ever there was a group where everyone was loved and no one pretended - we could not make enough room inside the building. -- John Ortberg
I had a very quick moment on 'Happy Endings.' -- Justin Baldoni
I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending. -- Katy Perry
You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending. -- Julia Quinn
The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment. -- Jill Robinson
Your future is your own again. And I consider that to be a happy ending to the story. -- Lisa Mangum
A happy ending is always possible if you are willing to keep the story moving to get there. -- Alan Cohen
Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story. -- Rick Warren
You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody. -- Paul Feig
True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you. -- Barbara Johnson
Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly. -- Susanna Kaysen
If you're fighting with your boyfriend, you can go to the movies and cry it out and leave happy because the ending of the film is happy. -- Lindsay Lohan
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
I believe with all my heart God's Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise. -- Elisabeth Elliot
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
The great thing about television is that most things get resolved by the end of the episode. So I think a lot of people watch TV to see something of their real lives reflected on the screen, but also they're hoping for that happy ending. -- Kali Hawk

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