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• It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. It’s only a matter of how long you can live with it.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Long, Sorrow, Despair

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• 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

  Hate, Cliffs, Film

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.44, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry." "Right," Said Sophie, starting the engine. "Tears might quench their fire.

  Chris d'Lacey

  Writing, Fire, Dragons

  Chris d'Lacey (2011). “The Fire Within”, p.275, Scholastic Inc.

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• ... in America ... 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

  Happy, Children, America

  Mary McCarthy (1993). “Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938”, Harcourt

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• This is where the story starts, in this threadbare room. The walls are exploding. The windows have turned into telescopes. Moon and stars are magnified in this room. The sun hangs over the mantelpiece. I stretch out my hand and reach the corners of the world. The world is bundled up in this room. Beyond the door, where the river is, where the roads are, we shall be. We can take the world with us when we go and sling the sun under your arm. Hurry now, it's getting late. I don't know if this is a happy ending but here we are let loose in open fields.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Stars, Wall, Moon

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• 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

  Twilight, Doe, Stories

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• 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

  Mother, Reality, Mad

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• Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.

  Sarah Dessen

  Believe, Together

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.22, Penguin

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• I'm always sure of what I do," he said. "Sometimes I was just never sure there was supposed to be a happy ending.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Sometimes, Said, Supposed To Be

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.730, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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

  Years, People, Honest

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, zulkey.com. May 28, 2004.

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• To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you
  have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Mean, Fighting, Evil

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• You know if you pick up a beach read, you're excused from the problems in your own life and safe in a world with conflicts you understand, and you know you will get a happy ending.

  Nancy Thayer

  Life, Beach, World

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• I've concluded that while nobody plans to mess up their life, the problem is that a few of us plan not to. That is, we don't put the necessary safeguards in place to ensure a happy ending.

  Andy Stanley

  Problem, Plans, Mess

  Andy Stanley, Heath Bennett (2010). “Up to You: It's Your Life, Choose Wisely”, p.11, Multnomah

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• It is both theoretically and practically very impossible to have a happy ending in life as long as death exists.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Long, Impossible

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• Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Book, Hero, Cheerful

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• You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Waiting, Trying, Six Months

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• I love stories with a happy ending,” Inspector Me said.

  Derek Landy

  Stories, Love Story, Said

  Derek Landy (2011). “Death Bringer (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 6)”, p.24, HarperCollins UK

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• 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

  Inspirational, Birthday, Travel

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• Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story.

  Rick Warren

  Stories, Life Is, Ends

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Aug 05, 2013

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• 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

  Morning, Heart, Dark

  "Interview: Michael Morpurgo, Running Wild". Interview With Lisa Bower, www.altblackpool.co.uk. February 27, 2017.

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• There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

  Isaac Asimov

  Crisis

  Isaac Asimov (2011). “The Gods Themselves”, p.292, Spectra

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

  Frank Herbert

  Real, Writing, Stories

  Interview with Willis McNelly, www.sinanvural.com. February 3, 1969.

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• You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

  Julia Quinn

  Romance

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• 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

  Believe, Heart, Stories

  Elisabeth Elliot (2015). “Through Gates of Splendor”, p.269, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed

  Jodi Picoult

  True Love, Love Is, Air

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