Sometimes There Are No Happy Endings Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Perfect endings... they don't exist, 'Phie. Only in stories, where nothing ever really changes. Here, right now, isn't a story. There is no happy ending, because it's not the end. Do you understand?

Joe Ducie

#3. It's a poem, of our love, that doesn't rhyme. A story, never meant to have, a happy end.

Khadija Rupa

#4. There's a lady in Midtown who does amazing therapeutic massage."
"I don't need a massage."
"I can see if she gives happy endings."
"I might need a massage.

Tiffany Reisz

#5. An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me ... And you know, people like happy endings.

Elinor Lipman

#6. There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.

Peter S. Beagle

#7. The fact was, I didn't know if I was built for happy endings.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. You want happy endings, read cookbooks.

Dean Young

#9. If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now.

Stephenie Meyer

#10. I won, goddammit. I beat Kollberg. I beat you. I got everything I goddamn wanted: fame, wealth, power. Shit, I even got the girl."
"The problem with happy endings," Tan'elKoth said,"is that nothing is ever truly over."
"Fuck that," Hari said."I am living happily ever goddamn after. I am.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#11. This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can't imagine a life without. Breathless moments.

Selena Gomez

#12. Books, even made-up stories, can't all have happy endings because they reflect the real world, and the real world isn't always happy.

Ada Palmer

#13. Some things were only possible in fairy tales. And not the kind of fairy tales that Baba Yagas featured in; those tended not to have happy endings.

Deborah Blake

#14. That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

Garry Trudeau

#15. 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