Top 100 Quotes About Happily Ever
#1. What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.
Scott Westerfeld
#2. Perhaps the only happily ever after is to survive to tell the story
Kat Howard
#3. Relationships aren't about idealistic love and happily ever after. It's those things that bug [ ... ] us about each other and yet eventually we find ourselves wishing we could go back and do it all over again.
Julie Cross
#4. I can take two people, throw a world of obstacles at them, defy the odds, and still give them a happily-ever-after. Together. I am a romance author. What's your superpower?
Kelly Moran
#5. Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.
Arthur Phillips
#6. Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.
Vladimir Nabokov
#7. A happy ending. Huh. I thought that was why we were here. Now. Five hundred years into Earth's future. So we could start over, and live happily-ever-after. It wasn't turning out that way, was it?
A.B. Shepherd
#8. Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
Ellen Hopkins
#9. After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love quickly with their charming princes and 'live happily ever after.'
Mohamed El-Erian
#10. Because you've been giving me happy for months now. All my life I've been looking for it. I didn't know what I was looking for, exactly. Only that I'd know it when I found it. You're it. You're my happily ever after. (Bennet)
A.S. Green
#11. And then what?" she says, pulling her hand from Grom's grasp. "Then Grom will mate with Mom and live happily ever after twenty thousand leagues under the sea?
Anna Banks
#12. All I will tell you is that I play a small role in someone's happily ever after.
Patty Duke
#13. There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.
Mary Balogh
#14. So I chose one, and Harry kept the other ... we have been living happily ever after, building the room that is our love, our home, inside our hearts from that day to this.
We build it, still, for as long as we draw breath.
Cameron Dokey
#15. Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?
J.R.R. Tolkien
#16. Fuck your fairytale. I just want you. I'll make my own God damn happily ever after. But you're the one who is mistaken. You'll be at the end of that story, beautiful. You either come willingly or you force me into the dark after you. It doesn't matter to me, because either way, I'll find you.
Aly Martinez
#17. I felt like the end of an A-Team episode when everything worked out, and the heroes all got to go home and live happily ever after while the bad guys were put in jail. Except of course, I was the bad guy.
Whatever.
Shay Savage
#18. I just want not to be hurt by him. I want it to be like it was when I was a child, when you thought the day you got married you lived happily ever after.
Fay Weldon
#20. A happily ever after belongs to every woman, no matter how complicated their past or present may be. No matter how many tears they've shed or how many battles they've lost. I'm beginning to believe that every woman deserves a man who will fight for her.
Frankie Love
#21. Happily Ever After isn't really the end...
K.C. Randall
#22. What I needed was to lose myself in a good book, one with tons of sex and angst, complete with an unbelievable happily-ever-after that made me love and hate the book at the same time.
J. Lynn
#23. I think I was in love with Brandt. Like love-love, the gooey, kissy, get married, make babies and live happily ever after kind of love. - Sarah
Linda Kage
#24. End of story. 'Happily ever after' fell on everyone like a guillotine's blade.
Michael Cunningham
#25. All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of making their marriages happy."
Linda Miles
#26. You wouldn't shut up about how brain-damaged that 'little Rusky diva-bitch' was and how he needed to just 'get over his sorry self and give our poor cop a blow job and live happily ever after' - you remember that?
Amy Lane
#27. Maybe there was no happily ever after [ ... ] but there was happiness sometimes and she had it now, doing what she knew she was born for.
Jeanne DuPrau
#28. There is no happily ever after. There is just not miserable for now.
John Goode
#29. I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could have a happily ever after.
Amanda Hocking
#30. This is the thing about fairy tales: You have to live through them, before you get to happily ever after. That ever after has to be earned, and not everyone makes it that far.
Kat Howard
#31. Do you know why happily ever after is a lie?" Snow asked. "Because life is change.
Jim C. Hines
#32. A toast... to taking a chance, because that chance taken may be the very path that leads you to your happily ever after.
Tillie Cole
#33. Once upon a time, we were cynics facing the world alone. Our story changed into two warrior cynics facing the world together.
Now, we own the happily ever after and we refuse to let that bitch go.
Monica Murphy
#34. No," Roland said, "but it's a fair tale. Tell it to the end, please." Eddie did, finishing with the required They lived happily ever after, and the gunslinger nodded. "No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don't we?" "Yeah," Jake said.
Stephen King
#35. A wise man once said NOTHING ... He just let her vent, nodded his head and live happily ever after!
Tanya Masse
#36. 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
#37. And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.
Stephen King
#38. My life will not follow a fairy tale, and that's okay. My life is reality. And in my reality people don't fall in love and get married and live happily ever after, because life is complicated. And messy.
Kim Holden
#39. Once upon a time there was a little boy who lived with monsters, and the monsters swore that they would never hurt him, because even monsters dream of living happily ever after.
Seanan McGuire
#40. To me 'they lived happily ever after' means to be happy with yourself! My parents always taught me that being happy has to work without Prince Charming. My life is completed without a prince but it's nice of course to have someone who loves you and fights for you.
Kristen Stewart
#41. I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.
Richard LaGravenese
#42. Happily ever after is a concept I'll never believe in.
Ellen Hopkins
#43. 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
#44. COLBIE: I'm an optimist. I believe in love and romance and happily ever after.
Bijou Hunter
#45. Finding Grant however and living happily ever after was an illusion, a dream. Things like that didn't happen to women like them. Things like that didn't happen in real life. Real life was shacking up with a man you didn't love just to have the security of a roof over your head.
Elle Ison
Shawn Reilly
#46. We lived love. A love so tragic and beautiful that it's only fitting it doesn't have a happily ever after.
Stevie J. Cole
#47. There's just no happily ever after in Janie's book.
But they both know there is something. Something good between them.
There is respect.
And there is depth.
Unslefishness.
An understanding between them that surpasses a hell of a lot else.
And there's that love thing.
Lisa McMann
#48. 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
#49. That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.
Marc Webb
#50. I wish I could teach you how to live happily ever after, Petra," she said, "but that is something you will have to learn on your own.
Marie Rutkoski
#52. If it is the case that love does survive death, then you may consider this to be a happy ending. Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Happily ever after or not.
Chuck Palahniuk
#54. Falling in love happens many times in our lives. I'm looking on the bright side - I might be one heartbreak away from happily ever after! - Penelope Jones
Penelope Jones
#55. I blame Hollywood for skewing perspectives. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them, and if you meet cute, happily ever-after is a forgone conclusion.
Jonathan Tropper
#56. Everyone in Arthur Anderson's life was fixated on happily-ever-after, and it was seriously pissing him off.
Anonymous
#57. What all the stories and romances don't say is that happily ever after doesn't just happen. You have to work at it. You have to keep working at it.
Carrie Vaughn
#58. [A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.
Richard Peck
#59. What matters in the story of our human relationships is not whether they lead to happily ever after but who and what they make of us. All relationships are our teachers, and this is especially so in a time of societal unraveling.
Carolyn Baker
#60. Here is where they tell you, if you only believe, you, too, can live happily ever after.
Brad Barkley
#61. How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn't it?
Elizabeth Gilbert
#62. I dont know about happily ever after ... but I know about happily, Weetzie Bat thought..
Francesca Lia Block
#63. I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something resembling a happily ever after. I am supposed to be above such flights of fantasy, but I am not. I am enamored of fairy tales.
Roxane Gay
#64. The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. And they lived happily ever after,
Lois Lowry
#65. Happily ever after?"
"If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertainment fiction, what's the point? Real life sucks too often.
Nora Roberts
#66. He was a cliffhanger and I was a happily ever after.
Rachel Brookes
#67. Trust me, somewhere over the rainbow, happily ever after, etcetera, etcetera - looks far less likely in your mid-thirties.
Heather McVea
#68. I was learning that happily-ever-after was the beginning of the next chapter, not the end of the story.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#69. They would face many more hardships in the days to come. They wouldn't be perfect and neither would their marriage. But they could still live happily ever after . . . together.
Jody Hedlund
#70. Some people never find it
Some only pretend
But I just want to live
Happily ever after, now and then
Jimmy Buffett
#71. We're star crossed, Shakespeare. Fateful star-crossed lovers. We have a lifetime to get to know each other, unlike our namesakes. I'll makes sure we get our happily ever after.
Tillie Cole
#72. I love that very traditional fairy tale where it's not all 'happily ever after.' I like all that old school, bloody, 'Brothers Grimm' sort of stuff. So you have all those shades of gray in there.
Erin Morgenstern
#73. And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.
Piper Laurie
#74. And I'm not talking about becoming a millionaire and living happily ever after. I just mean reaching a point in my life that I can stop what I'm doing, take a look around me, breathe a sigh of relief, and think I'm where I want to be now.
Cecelia Ahern
#75. No one talked about the questions, because talking ruined plausible deniability. Talking burst the bubble of innocence. Talking ended the happily ever after. These were the truths they believed. And they were lies. They should have talked while there was still something to say.
Courtney C. Stevens
#76. I'm a girl. Every girl pretends she's a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that. And I like the idea of 'happily ever after.
Alex Flinn
#77. If you would stop analyzing everything and just look for things to appreciate, you would live happily ever after.
Esther Hicks
#78. I hope you smile, laugh, and maybe even learn something that will help you along the way to happily-ever-after.
T.N. Carpenter
#79. So Aphrodite married Hephaestus and the celebrity ship Aphrophaestus completely dominated Olympian tabloid news for like a thousand years. Did they live happily ever after? HAHAHAHAHA. No.
Rick Riordan
#80. I am the happily ever after in your twisted tormented tale of your Cinder-fuckin-rella dreams.
Suzanne Steele
#81. Necessity is the mother of delusion. For true love to exist there must be nothing that is necessary to it. Lovers have to live happily ever after, no matter what happens.
Billy Bob Stone
#82. firmly believe in the concept of Happily Ever After. For everyone. No matter how or who or when they fell in love. Because that love existed, they felt it, and that is worth everything. Love
Emma Scott
#83. As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.
Julie Andrews
#85. Don't daydream about your happily-ever-after, and don't wait for it to come; create it yourself.
Giuseppe Bianco
#86. If you write anything meaningful over there, June, keep it far away from this city. They will turn a story about glue-addicted gypsy children in the Balkans into an animated musical about a tribe of pixie-sized fairy-dust-loving flamenco dancers who live happily ever after with their dancing bears.
Annie Ward
#87. You'll never, ever be able to do anything but live happily ever after with that boy.
Suzanne Collins
#88. 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
#89. Maybe it's a fairy tale, but I believe in happily ever after.
Jennifer Aniston
#90. Heavenly Father offers to you the greatest gift of all - eternal life - and the opportunity and infinite blessing of your own "happily ever after."
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#91. They (penguins) then fall madly in love and live happily ever after.
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And so you ask yourself: "If a penguin can have a worthwhile, stimulating relationship, why the hell can't I?"
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Or maybe you ask yourself: "Would I be happier if I started dating a penguin
Bradley Trevor Greive
#92. My heart broke a little at her unblemished view of life: She still believed in innocent secrets, the heady rush of a good mystery, and happily ever after ... (I wasn't about to disabuse her of those sweet notions.) ... Little girls should be allowed to dream.
Glenn Beck
#93. I thought it was about us. About my escape. About our happily-ever-after.
And it was.
And it wasn't.
Tahereh Mafi
#94. once upon a time, the princess rose from the ashes her dragon lovers made of her & crowned herself the mother-fucking queen of herself. How's that for a happily ever after?
Amanda Lovelace
#95. True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, I'm not afraid to believe in you.
Cara Lockwood
#96. I wasn't sure I was ready to go home. I believed that this city was magical. That it sang to me. And it seemed to me that once you happened upon magical places you should stay there, happily ever after.
Megan Crane
#97. Happily ever after doesn't come easy. But for love, it's always worth the fight.
M. Leighton
#98. Mr. Wonka: "Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted."
Charlie Bucket: "What happened?"
Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.
Roald Dahl
#99. The people who live happily ever after - they don't appear in the history books. They just fade away. I reckon that's what happiness is.
Pauline Foster - " The Ballad of Tom Dooley ", Sharyn McCrumb, p. 271
Sharyn McCrumb
#100. After going through years of litigation to get royalties due to him, the guy who coined the term 'happily ever after' lived reasonably well for a while.
Demetri Martin
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