Top 100 Quotes About Happily Ever After
#1. Storytelling explores the problem with people. Stories without conflict are bad stories that no one repeats. Conflict describes the reality of human life and interaction with others. The resolution of the conflict in which everyone lives happily ever after reflects the human yearning for hope.
Harry Lee Poe
#2. I don't believe that happily ever after means we never have disagreements or go through conflicts. What I do believe is that there is someone who is willing to stick through all of these things with me, because we love each other more than we love ourselves.
Marilyn Grey
#3. The ultimate act of heroism shouldn't be death. You're always saying you want to give Baz the stories he deserves ... So you're going to kill him off? Isn't the best revenge supposed to be a life well-lived? The punk-rock way to end it would be to let them live happily ever after.
Rainbow Rowell
#4. Why does it have to be so hard? Why can't it be a happily-ever-after ride-into-the-sunset feeling all the time?
Rick Riordan
#5. It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank.
Simon Travaglia
#6. Jessica, falling in love can't always be a happily ever after or a once in a lifetime kind of story. Those happen in books, in movies. This is life and it's real. Life has no script, no outline. We broke the rules of love long ago. All I know for sure is that with you, the rules will never apply.
Kathryn Perez
#7. Sometimes there's just no justice. The bad guys do live, if not happily ever after, then certainly conspicuously.
Ken Bruen
#8. Epic love story has only love between two people but do not have 'they lived happily ever after
Santosh Avvannavar
#9. And Sophie and Agatha lived happily ever after, for girls don't need princes for love to call ... No, they don't need princes in their fairy tales at all
Soman Chainani
#10. To live happily ever after, you have to have been living lovingly before.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#12. This was a woman who had long ago figured out she wasn't getting her own happily-ever-after. But, like all disappointed women, she still believed in it, just that it was meant for someone else.
Sarah Addison Allen
#13. Not every relationship is forever, but it's easy to forget that until your own happily-ever-after goes sideways.
Lauren Layne
#14. He was composed, polite, and intelligent. All the things a prince should be.
Kiera Cass
#15. I didn't want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too.
Heather King
#16. It would be nice to report she lived happily ever after till the end of her days. But such cheap, cop-out one-liners belong to other uncomplicated fairy tales.
Jennifer Silverwood
#17. It's the way my mind works, when it works at all. Things to do today: settle down, achieve serenity, live happily ever after. Tick the box and move on.
K.J. Parker
#18. Kids could and did swim in it happily as in their native element, at least until some teacher or professor told them they had to come out, dry off, and breathe modernism ever after.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#19. ...but it wouldn't be happily ever after without a kiss.
Steffani Raff
#20. I doubted myself, and that made me doubt you. But you weren't the problem. You were never the problem. I should have trusted you, but I didn't, because I couldn't trust myself.
Stephanie Perkins
#21. It was on my twenty-sixth birthday that it finally hit me: Love was bullshit. There was no happily ever after.
Cindi Madsen
#22. There was no slipper, nor spinning wheel, nor true love's first kiss. This was not a fairy tale with a happily ever after.
Lisa Mantchev
#23. Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after.
Mickey Rooney
#24. Happily ever after doesn't mean a lifetime of perfection. I don't think anyone believes that happily ever after means there are no unhappy days, even unhappy years. It means loving forever, despite all the many reasons it's easier not to.
Mia Sheridan
#25. It might not have been a happily ever after for everyone, but it was everything I had ever wanted.
J.J. McAvoy
#26. They all had their own struggles and stories to tell and they al made it to this point, happy and in love.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#28. Damn Disney & all their happily-after-ever, unrealistic bullshit stories
Jillian Dodd
#29. That kiss was amazing; it had all the passion and longing we had been holding onto for so long. That is when the dam finally broke for me and I started crying. I knew right then that Hunter was the only one I wanted. He was my happily ever after.
Megan Smith
#30. We're enveloped in pitch black. "Wait here," I whisper.
"Are you getting your ax?"
"Handcuffs."
"Kinky. But, okay, I'll try it.
Stephanie Perkins
#31. I know it's a crock of shit. I ain't offering you happily-ever-after. I'm offering you ... happily-maybe-sometimes-ever-after. Sort of. You know, with warts and shit. -Thayer
Wally Lamb
#32. No thanks. This is a lovely dream, but it's a child's dream. I know some who'd argue the point, but I grew up long ago. - Rose Red (Fables: Vol.21, Happily Ever After)
Bill Willingham
#33. You can't take sides against anything. If you would just be one who is for things, you would live happily ever after. If you could just leave the "against" part out.
Esther Hicks
#35. I mean, without the antagonist, there would be no story! It'd be like: 'Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to be loved, so she met a prince and got married and lived Happily Ever After, The End'? That's not a story; that's a bumper sticker.
Shannon Hale
#36. The fact that so many of my friends were stumbling headfirst into their happily-ever-after gave my tired heart hope that I couldn't be far behind.
Jay Crownover
#37. I'm not naive. I know I don't get the happily ever after. My knight in shining armor took the highway detour around this godforsaken shit hole ...
Teresa Mummert
#38. What are you doing?" Len asked.
"It will sound stupid if I tell you," Jim said.
"No it won't. Tell me."
"I made a wish."
"What did you wish for?"
Jim looked into his eyes, "That we will always be as happy as we are, right now, at this very moment in time.
Ryan Field
#40. I'd like to point out that we've had zero problem reaching each other's mouths.
Stephanie Perkins
#41. I should have liked this particular story to end with me settled happily ever after in the hut on the island, but it didn't happen. It wasn't long before I had to face the fact that I was living in the sea.
Meg Rosoff
#42. She's shaped her image of the world around someone else's fantasy ... Because it's easier. It's so much easier to say, 'This is a story, and there are heroes and villains, and there's an ending, and when we get there the book will close and we'll all live happily ever after.
Mira Grant
#43. A no-effort relationship is a doomed relationship, not a great relationship. It takes work to communicate accurately and it takes work to expose and resolve conflicting hopes and beliefs. It doesn't mean there is no "they lived happily ever after," but it's more like "they worked happily ever after.
Carol S. Dweck
#44. Happy endings are absolutely ludicrous, they're not true at all. We see the guy carry the girl across the threshold and everybody lives happily ever after
that's bullshit. Three weeks later he's beating her up and she's suing for divorce and he's got cancer.
Robert Altman
#45. A happily-ever-after is never the real ending to a story. It's where the real story begins.
Sarah Addison Allen
#46. Doesn't everyone deserve their own version of a happily-ever-after?
Jill Shalvis
#47. I still believe in dreams. I still think that if we work together, things will turn out all right. I still feel that if we each treat each other with kindness, dignity, and respect, we will live happily ever after. I have hope.
Michael Hingson
#48. It was scary to think of happily ever after. It was scary to think about trusting someone enough to give him your heart now, hoping he wouldn't break it later.
Rachel Hawthorne
#49. Your brand story's "happily ever after" involves open wallets.
Laura Busche
#50. But in real life, happily-ever-after is just the beginning. It's where life starts.
Kay Hooper
#51. Tempting as your offer is, I won't go home with you. I can't sleep with you, Justin. You say it doesn't have to be that way, but you and I both know that's the way it would be. You're a risk I can't afford to take.
Sarah Grimm
#53. In books and movies, the stories always end when the two people finally have their romantic kiss. The happily-ever-after part is just assumed
Gayle Forman
#54. You've crafted this bored veneer, but you're always giving yourself away in moments like that. In the moments that really matter.
Stephanie Perkins
#55. Happily Ever After starts every time you woke up.
T.A
#56. It's true that romance novels do detail the courtship phase of a relationship. We usually write 'And they lived happily ever after' before our heroine starts snoring or our hero starts tossing his socks over the hamper.
Teresa Medeiros
#57. Maybe Cinderella didn't live happily ever after. Maybe, come midnight, she wanted to run away. Maybe her price wouldn't let her. Mine didn't.
J.M. Darhower
#58. And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent treatments, and unexpected calamities) ever after.
Jean Ferris
#59. True love never lives happily ever after - true love has no ending.
K. Knight
#60. My captive. My wife. My entire world.
I will love her to the end of time, and I will never, ever let her go.
Anna Zaires
#61. Screw happily-ever-after! I want happy-right-now!
Leah Alvord
#62. That's why you can't give up. Heroes don't give up.
Kiera Cass
#63. What this world doesn't have is the three-wishes, go-to-the-ball-and-meet-your-prince, happily-ever-after kind of magic. We have all the mangling and malevolent kinds. Who *invented* this system?
Robin McKinley
#64. I think we deserve a happily-ever-after."
"If anyone ever did, it's us.
Jodi Picoult
#65. Always, when you know what you don't want, that's when the rocket of desire is born of what you do want. That is the fruit of your experience. Now pluck it and savor it and enjoy it. Visualize it, and find the feeling place of it. And live happily ever after, once you get the hang of this.
Esther Hicks
#66. Marley Jackson was mine, and I was hers, all smashed together for our happily ever after.
Shelly Crane
#67. The happily ever after thing. It's great when she marries the prince or whatever and they say that. But they just don't show the part where there's a revolution and they drag her to the guillotine.
Mark D. Diehl
#68. Let life simply unfold, for once in your life, without spinning all those hopeful romantic fantasies. The less time you spend dreaming up a world of happily ever after, the more time you'll actually have to live- no evers or afters required.
Abby McDonald
#69. I think the barrier for a lot of people to actual, real, lasting love is the fantasy. The problem is that we think in "happily ever after" love, but real love grows over time, and priorities change.
Marti Noxon
#70. Oddly enough you can get married and live happily ever after without spawning. Spawning is optional.
Merlyn Gabriel Miller
#71. Nothing can ever change that I was yours and you were mine, and for a short period of time, we had something people write books about. We lived love. A love so tragic and beautiful that it's only fitting it doesn't have a happily ever after. I love you.
Stevie J. Cole
#72. It's not TIME that heals everything, it is SLEEP ...
Sleeping is the perfect answer to all doubts and troubles.
Leaving the world of reality behind and disappearing in to a world of make-believe and imaginations, is a solace you get from nothing else ...
Sanhita Baruah
#73. This is real life, Master Stephen. Happily ever after takes effort.
Julie Klassen
#75. The problem with Happily Ever After is that when you live far beyond the terms of most Ever After's there is just too much time for it to go wrong.
R.G. Dole
#76. And they all lived happily ever after, until they died.
Ali Smith
#77. For those who have found love in the strangest places, in people who are polar opposites in terms of profession and interests, and believe that happily ever after comes from finding common ground.
Jaci Burton
#78. I didn't believe in happily-ever-after, but I did believe in happier-than-we'd-ever-been, because I was living it.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#80. This is the most complicated relationship since Romeo and Juliet," she complained. "You're
both hopeless. I mean, what is the big problem? You love him. He adores you. You get together and live happily ever after. Any
questions? No, of course not. That'll be ten dollars, thank you.
John Marsden
#81. Life may not always be a fairytale, but it doesn't mean we can't make our own happily-ever-after.
Winter Renshaw
#82. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.
Kate DiCamillo
#83. Now, if others will rid the earth of vanity, ignorance, and want, mankind can live happily ever after.
Kurt Vonnegut
#84. I didn't know if I believed in 'happily ever after' anymore. I mean, I didn't know what would happen tomorrow, let alone for forever and ever after. But I did know that I was happy, right there, right then, with him.
And that was all I needed to know.
Stephanie Kate Strohm
#85. What if in every breakup, the dumper gets to live happily ever after, while the dumpee gets a lifetime membership in the Bitter Book Club?
Melissa Kantor
#86. In fairy tales there's always one person who is made for one other, and they find each other and live happily ever after. Cal was my person. I couldn't imagine anyone more perfect. Yet what kind of sick fairy tale would it be if he was the one made exactly right for me and I wasn't right for him?
Cate Tiernan
#87. Love the one who proves to you that happily ever after is only the beginning.
Nina Lane
#88. Oh, woe to the woman who sticks her nose in a book and forgets that real life is not always destined for Happily Ever After.
Dorothy Cannell
#89. Think we ought to live happily ever after. - Howl in Howl's Moving Castle
Heidi Cullinan
#90. ... I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.
Orson Scott Card
#91. Dear God ... I, I have caused a miracle. I gave her the eyes. I gave her the blue, blue, two blue eyes. Cobalt blue. A streak of it right out of your own blue heaven. No one else will see her blue eyes. But she will. And she will live happily ever after.
Toni Morrison
#92. This is the whistle-stop memoir of how a lower-middle-class girl from the north of England one day changed the way she lived her life and set off on a bumpy path that ultimately led her to her own slice of the happily-ever-after pie.
Tillie Cole
#93. You'll never get to the happily ever after if you don't move past the current chapter ...
Carmen DeSousa
#94. I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen.
But maybe that particular delusion was universal.
Robin Wasserman
#95. I smiled, thinking that Hale and I were in very similar situations: charging headlong into the future with no guarantee of a happily ever after. All the same, it meant something that we ran, didn't it? I liked to think so.
Kiera Cass
#96. Marriage, to me, implied stability, something sure and reliable. Happily ever after and all good things.
Meredith Wild
#97. Every moment where I should have told him. That he was it. He was my Prince Charming. My White Knight. My Happily Ever After. My every fucking thing.
Jay McLean
#98. The wonderful thing about a TV show is if you get picked up for another season, there's no happily ever after.
Guy Branum
#99. Well, a lot of people believe in the happily ever after and the fairytale relationships, let's not take that away from them.
Sandi Lynn
#100. It would have been so easy to believe every word he said and drive off with him into the moonlight like a scene from a fairy tale. But I wasn't meant for happily ever after in my past life, and it was starting to seem like this one wouldn't be any different.
Michelle Madow
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