The Afters Quotes

#1. 'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together to tell a larger story. In 'Lust and Other Stories,' there are nine stories - three, three, three; the beginnings of love, the middles, and the afters.

Susan Minot

#2. Same people. Same hellos and goodbyes. Same beginnings and endings. Same befores and afters.

Sarah Ockler

#3. Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.

Kate Forsyth

#4. 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

#5. I've kissed a lot of men. But never have I been so lost in a kiss that when I closed my eyes I saw tomorrows and ever-afters.

K. Bromberg

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. True hope is not fully realized when we keep it for ourselves, but only when we imitate Jesus Christ and give it away. That's when hope becomes mature.

Kim Meeder

#9. I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house.

Nancy Sinatra

#10. Do not breathe simply to exist.

Mattie J.T. Stepanek

#11. 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

#12. You don't have to twist my arm to work.

Henry Rollins

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

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Sylvia Day

#20. 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

#21. But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!

Alphonse De Lamartine

#22. 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

#23. How to perform an ultrasound with one arm up a rhino's rectum.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

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

Chandra Hahn

#28. Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.

Shimon Peres

#29. It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.

Sarah Dessen

#30. 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

#31. Once upon a times and happy ever afters could suck it and die.

Ashlan Thomas

#32. Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.

Ian Fleming

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

Lex Martin

#34. The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football.

David Gill

#35. 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