A Quote by Diana Wynne Jones

I think we ought to live happily ever after.

Diana Wynne Jones

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Diana Wynne Jones
English - Novelist
August 16, 1934 - March 26, 2011

I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would be a good deal more hair-raising than any storybook made it sound, though she was determined to try. "It should be hair-raising," added Howl. "And you'll exploit me," Sophie said. "And then you'll cut up all my suits to teach me.

Diana Wynne Jones

Is not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It's the fact that I live happily ever after.

Cecelia Ahern

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

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

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

Stephen King

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 realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on the fairy tale "Seeping Beauty," which instructs young women that if they just wait for their prince to arrive, they will be kissed and whisked away on a white horse to live happily ever after. Now young women are told that if they can just find the right mentor, they will be pushed up the ladder and whisked away to the corner office to live happily ever after. Once again, we are teaching women to be too dependent on others.

Sheryl Sandberg

There is something infinitely better than happily-ever-after. There is happiness. Happiness is a living, dynamic thing, Eve, and has to be worked on every moment for the rest of our lives. It is a far more exciting prospect than that silly static idea of a happily-ever-after. Would you not agree?" - Aidan Bedwyn

Mary Balogh

A peace agreement isn't like a fairy story. You don't live happily ever after.

Jonathan Powell

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

Jimmy Buffett

I want to get married and have children and live happily ever after. That's important to me.

Cory Monteith

I think we deserve a happily-ever-after." "If anyone ever did, it's us.

Jodi Picoult

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

Have you thought of an ending?' 'Yes , several, and all are dark and unpleasant,' said Frodo. 'Oh , that won't do!' said Bilbo. 'Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?' 'It will do well, if it ever comes to that,' said Frodo.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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.