Quotes About Book Endings

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. George Burns ... the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.

Ronald Reagan

#5. 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

#6. In a relationship, it is better to be the leaver than the leavee.

Woody Allen

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

Lemony Snicket

#8. her humor kept tension at bay around the White House. Mrs. Bush was famous for it. Executive life was constantly stressful and it can consume everyone who works at the White House. She knew it and appreciated us, and it meant the world.

Gary J. Byrne

#9. He always had a different girlfriend and you could tell they were all easy but a nun would turn easy at one look at Luke.

Kristen Ashley

#10. 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

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

Lemony Snicket

#12. 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.

#13. There isn't meaning if we give everything in replace for nothing!

Deyth Banger

#14. Pray for a peaceful and contented mind in all circumstances.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#15. He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.

Raymond Chandler

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.

Walter Savage Landor

#20. Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his
sight whose breath touches my sleep?

Rabindranath Tagore

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Matthew Quick

#24. What's with what you're wearing?" Griggs asks while we stand outside waiting for the others.
"It's pretty hideous, isn't it?" I say.
"Don't force me to look at it," he says. "It's see-through."
That kills conversation for a couple of seconds.

Melina Marchetta

#25. Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.

Nicholas Culpeper

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

The Doctor

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. Music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way.

Anne Lamott

#30. If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better.

Frans De Waal

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun.

Thomas Paine

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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