A Quote by Neil Gaiman
Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings.
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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.
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.
I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.
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.
And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
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.
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.
There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.
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.
I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life.
Unhappy endings can be as cheap as happy endings.
I'm not an endings person. I don't do endings. There may have been people in the band who wanted this to be an ending from time to time, but me and Amy don't really do endings. You cannot escape from us. Once we're friends with you, that's it.
She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.
I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.
Happy endings are still endings.
Catherine Land liked the beginnings of things. The pure white possibility of the empty room, the first kiss, the first swipe at larceny. And endings, she liked endings, too. The drama of the smashing glass, the dead bird, the tearful goodbye, the last awful word which could never be unsaid or unremembered.
It was the middles that gave her pause. This, for all its forward momentum, this was a middle. The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.
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