Best Book Endings Quotes

#1. And above all else, remember that the end of a movie (or a TV show, or a play, or a book) is never really the end.

Jen Calonita

#2. The desires of this world are like sea water. The more you drink of them, the more you thirst.

Ibn Arabi

#3. There are things in this book, as in life, that might upset you. There is death and pain in here, tears and discomfort, violence of all kinds, cruelty, even abuse. There is kindness, too, I hope, sometimes. Even a handful of happy endings. (Few

Neil Gaiman

#4. 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

#5. Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture.

Jodi Picoult

#6. A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can't stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious.

Helen Oyeyemi

#7. I've never read a book [ Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon] like it before. Big and sprawling with a million points of view, including sea creatures. It's about an alien invasion that starts in Lagos, Nigeria but, really, that's just the starting point.

Justine Larbalestier

#8. No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!

C. JoyBell C.

#9. If you like books with happy endings then put this book down immediately.

Lemony Snicket

#10. Though I am not an avid reader but I like romantic books. Love is a good thing. At times in love, there are disappointments ... one must not keep expectations. I like to be positive in love. I believe in happy endings.

Katrina Kaif

#11. If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.

Lemony Snicket

#12. One way to be aware of it, to teach to yourself, is simply to read work aloud. I love reading the endings of books aloud when I start nearing the end.

Paul Lisicky

#13. I remember that I used to get lots of books from the library, and 'Little Women' was one of them. And I used to just cross out the parts of it that really upset me because it's such a sad book in so many ways. I'd cross out the parts that upset me, and I would rewrite new endings.

Helen Oyeyemi

#14. There's a subtleness to camera work. You can really create intimate moments on camera, and sometimes that requires a little more precision from an actor because you have to pull people in as opposed to throwing it to them.

Corey Reynolds

#15. Sometimes a soldier returns home and all he can do is share his story in the hopes that somehow, in some way, it helps another soldier make sense of things. And although the stories may not be perfect, sometimes just sharing is enough to make a difference.

Michael Anthony

#16. A fool stumbles when he walks; the wise are not hampered even when they run.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

Rose Tremain

#18. I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '

Lev Grossman

#19. One way [to recovery] would be by creating the best possible romance book or happy ending scenario for you ... out od your own experience. Another way would be to look at it as it is: a wake-up call to action to create a more humane world, without discrimination and sexism.

Elina Juusola

#20. Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about the openings and spend all that time on the endings.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#21. There's nothing on Earth like really nailing the last line of a big book. You have 200 pages to tickle their fancy, and seven words to break their heart.

Alex De Campi

#22. Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Peggy Noonan

#23. Being able to laugh got me through.

Toni Morrison

#24. And then she began to cry, and when I asked her why she was doing that, she said it was because I was to have a happy ending, and it was just like a book; and I wondered what books she'd been reading.

Margaret Atwood

#25. The young people when I go to McDonald's, the Hispanic clerks will come by, 'Sheriff, can we have a picture?' over and over again. At least they want a picture with me.

Joe Arpaio

#26. I read the last paragraph of my favorite book. I remind myself that some things I love end. And that's okay.

Ari Eastman

Ari Eastman

#27. I always rip out the last page of a book. That way, it doesn't have to end. I hate endings.

The Doctor

#28. confined to a small volume of inhabitable space on Cleft for the remainder of their lives, were impoverished in many ways. Of information, however, they had an inexhaustible wealth. Essentially every document that had ever been digitized was available to them,

Neal Stephenson

#29. I believe in happy endings, and i feel this movie has advanced long enough.

Matthew Quick

#30. Only bad books have good endings.
If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#31. You see a guy, is what you see. Only God got distracted before he could slap a dick on me and went on to the next in line.

Stephen King

#32. This isn't a book. This isn't a paranormal fantasy or whatever the hell it is you read. There is no set plot or clear idea of where any of this is going. The enemies aren't obvious. There are no guaranteed happy endings.

Jennifer L. Armentrout