Quotes About Happily Ever Afters

#1. It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Colleen Hoover

#2. Happily-ever-afters and everything little girls dream of. He was a cool breeze on a hot day. Electric kisses and mischievous firsts. An addiction I couldn't get out of my system.

Winter Renshaw

#3. I have always been quite good at falling in love, but I don't pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters.

Jennifer Harrison

#4. My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can't be healthy to live in a land of happily ever afters.

Colleen Hoover

#5. Life isn't easy. Love isn't easy. Fairy tales are books we read to children. Romance novels are books that make teenagers dream of love and happily ever afters. I'm here to tell you my story. This is my diary. This is my life. This is my truth. You can't make this shit up.

Brenda Novak

#6. I'm not a sucker for happily ever afters, but if these two characters don't get theirs I might climb inside this e-reader and lock them both inside that damn garage forever.

Colleen Hoover

#7. World peace, true love, and happily-ever-afters amount to wasted wishes, failed endeavors, and most precious dreams.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off. I'll

Colleen Hoover

#9. Happily-ever-afters don't come in happily-every-days. They are found at the end of challenges-ever-met, promises-ever-kept, and tears-ever-wept.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#10. I wanted a do over. A time machine. That magic wand. But real life didn't have any easy outs, and very few happily-ever-afters. The real world was more like a Choose Your Own Adventure book, with most of the choices ripped out before you even opened the cover.

Rachel Vincent

#11. See, there are happily ever afters. Even for assholes like me.

Lex Martin

#12. I want there to be happily-ever-afters for the fucked-up crowd. Show me the way, Eva honey. Make me believe.

Sylvia Day

#13. Not all fairy tales have happily ever afters, some just have afters.

Chandra Hahn

#14. But it is perhaps not such a good idea to look back - all the stories say so. Look what happened to Lot's wife. Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings?

Stephen King

#15. When we think about fairy tales, we think about happily ever afters, forgetting the darkness that stories beginning with "once upon a time" so often contain.
I tried to protect Shay from that darkness. But there was no way to shield her from the truth: Life is not a fairy tale.

Laura J. Burns

#16. but the stories on the edge of civilization are horrible things. They're as cruel and violent as the nastiest fairy tales, but they don't have any hope or happily-ever-afters. They have victims, not heroes. The best you get is to escape and go home.

Richard Roberts

#17. And she wanted him. And anyway, once a mermaid saved a man, wasn't he destined to be her true love, with weddings on ships or private islands and happily-ever-afters filled with music and sparkles and talking fish?

Kerry Adrienne

#18. Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.

Horacio Quiroga

#19. The less time you spend dreaming up a world of happily ever after, the more time you'll have to actually live
no evers or afters required.

Abby McDonald

#20. I've directed seven movies and know a thing or two about dealing with unexpected crises.

Penny Marshall

#21. John took his fucking time in Xhex's shower , washing himself thoroughly not because he was dirty, but because he figured two could play at the whole whip-the-state-clean, what-happened-didn't-happen thing.

J.R. Ward

#22. I love my sons and I love that they are writers - I also love my daughter, who's a minister and an orchard keeper! - but I wouldn't wish the burden of Mid-World and the Dark Tower on them. I enjoy working with them, though, because we fit together.

Stephen King

#23. 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

#24. Rise & set, ebb & flow; the rhythms of our world.

Cathryn Louis

#25. solipsism of adolescence with its wild enthusiasms,

P. J. O'Rourke

#26. It would take a good amount of work, a considerable amount of patience, and an unfathomable amount of foot rubs, but in the end - at least for a while - they lived happily.

Daniel Younger

#27. Frankie," she said softly, "do you know what my idea of heaven is? A place where the windows are always clean, and the people I want can always come to dinner.

Helen Hudson

#28. What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.

William Klein

#29. Information doesn't deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a useful
fantasy, a nothing. It is nonexistent until and unless a person experiences
it in a useful way.

Jaron Lanier