Happy Ending Quotes

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“If you think the story has a sad ending, it's because it's not over yet.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“Single is no longer a lack of options – but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defined by your relationship status but to live every day Happily and let your Ever After work itself out.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“I survived, but it's not a happy ending.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.”
― Jennifer Echols, Love Story

“I'm afraid I've already found my Ever After, Hort," said Sophie.

"What? With who?" Hort asked, aghast.

"On my own," she said, her voice sure and clear. "I'm happy on my own."

And for the first time, she knew it was true.”
― Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After

“It isn't the happy ending Ingrid and I had dreamed up, but it's all a part of what I'm working through. The way life changes. The way people and things disappear. Then appear, unexpectedly, and hold you close.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

“Carol raised her hand slowly and brushed her hair back, once on either side, and Therese smiled because the gesture was Carol, and it was Carol she loved and would always love. Oh, in a different way now because she was a different person, and it was like meeting Carol all over again, but it was still Carol and no one else. It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell. Therese waited. Then as she was about to go to her, Carol saw her, seemed to stare at her incredulously a moment while Therese watched the slow smile growing, before her arm lifted suddenly, her hand waved a quick, eager greeting that Therese had never seen before. Therese walked toward her.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or shutting a book, did not end the tale.
Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

“Epic love story has only love between two people but do not have 'they lived happily ever after”
― Santosh Avvannavar, The Departing Point: Two people departed...in search of love...leaving love in between

“Maybe in life you get all kinds of soulmates. Multiple people who vibrate at the same level you do. I think that's what Fred is for me. I just don't get to see his penis anymore. So, no, I don't get my happy-ending tongue kiss in the rain, but I did get my friend back. And I don't have to worry about running these busted knees around after any babies.”
― Samantha Irby, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.

“Hard to accept the end of a story
that won the villain against heroes.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Zach kissed her forehead. "I'm not going to let anything like that happen to you again. You're going to live out your days as the cosseted and cherished wife of a chief deputy U.S. Marshal.”
― Pamela Clare, Breaking Point

“Life is a bitch; you get used though, or you kill yourself. Either way, you're winning.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“Natalie was going to stay at home, cooking meals, baking pies, and making sure their life together was comfortable. When Zach came home from a hard day's work, she wanted to be there for him, not coping with her own stress and fatigue. She knew some women would object to her decision, but this was her life, and she was going to live it as she chose.”
― Pamela Clare, Breaking Point

“Thy only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die.”
― Margaret Atwood

“这次，无论你想去什么地方，为师都陪你。”
― Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System [人渣反派自救系统]

“It wasn’t like this in the stories. In the old tales, when a young man went forth to have adventures, he endured his trials and came forth triumphant. He became a leader, or acquired a magical skill, or at the very least wed a princess. Maybe all three. There was never any question, not even in the darkest moment, that the hero would conquer both his enemies and his self-doubt. Perhaps that was why I had been angry with Simon, because I wanted the ending of his story to be the good one he deserved.”
― Juliet Marillier, Daughter of the Forest

“Dreaming is dangerous. But I allow myself to this time. I think we deserve a happy ending.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“Maybe you and I could... not go home together?'

The words hung in the air between them, as fine as spun glass and just as fragile. Marra waited for him to say something, to catch the words or shatter them, whichever he chose.

'I think I'd like that,' said Fenris.

Marra sagged with relief.

She had been so focused on what he might say that she hadn't quite expected what he might do. So it came as a surprise when he wrapped both arms around her and put his lips against her hair. 'I think I would like that very much,' he murmured.

'Oh good,' said Marra, against his neck. And then she would have kissed him or he would have kissed her, but Bonedog decided that they were wrestling and jumped up and barked soundlessly at them both.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“Since at the very start of the [Epic of Gilgamesh], the purpose of the encounter of the wild man with the civilized king was to restore justice to the city, the poem has, after all, a happy ending.”
― Alberto Manguel, La cité des mots: CBC Massey Lectures

“I don't desire a happy life, I desire for a happy death”
― Atef Ashab Uddin Sahil

“Defeat doesn't help you to grow,” I said. "It's just defeat."

Mrs. Baker smiled. “Two weeks ago, the Saturn V lunar rocket passed its first flight test. It's been less than ten months since we lost three astronauts, but we're still testing the next rocket, so that some day we can go to the moon and make our world a great deal bigger.” She held her hands up to her face. “Wouldn't Shakespeare have admired that happy ending?” she whispered.

Then she put the book away in her lower desk drawer.
It was quiet and still in the room. You could hear the soft rain on the windows.

“Thank you for the cream puffs, ” I said.

“The quality of mercy is not strained,” she said.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars: A Newbery Honor Award Winner

“He leaned down and kissed me, warm and soft. "I do have a trick to get you to relax though."
And I knew exactly what his idea of "relaxing" was. "We're at work!"
"We're alone at work," he teased, lifting me off my feet and walking away with me in his arms.
"You're insatiable!" I laughed as he bound up the stairs.
"Only when it comes to you, love."
In his office, he kicked the door shut behind him before setting me on the small couch by the bookshelves. He caged me in his arms and leaned down to kiss my neck.
"What do you think you're doing?" My lips protested, but my head moved to the side, giving him more room to kiss me.
"Are we still trying for a faeling?" he asked. "These things can take quite a bit of time, you know."
"It could take decades!"
"A sacrifice I'm willing to make," he teased.
Wrapping my fingers around his tie, I gently tugged his face down to mine so I could kiss him, reminiscent of our first kiss that had cemented the bond between us half a year ago.
"Whatever happens, happens. I'm not as impatient as you, Lord of Winter."
"Only for you," Devin answered. "Only ever for you, love."
He kissed me again, deeper and hungrier than before, and I wrapped my arms around his neck and melted into him.”
― Sabrina Blackburry, Dirty Lying Faeries

“His power and His plans don’t only echo into eternity, they define it. If you want a happy ending, don’t look for it in this life, and don’t make yourself the center of the story. There is a God who is a real hero, who has fixed His attention on you, who wants to wrap up your story within His own and pour out His affections on you.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Ten stories of stair climbing later, you knock on her door. And there she is. Now your heart aches. Now your pulse beats strong and fast. You wrap your arms around her and kick the door closed. You are home. You lift her to your hips and carry her to bed. You don't talk because you need her lips on your lips. You don't breathe because you need her breath in your lungs. You rip off her clothes because you need her skin on your skin. She has awakened something inside you---- something wild and forever.
When it is over---- and it is many hours before you both collapse from exhaustion, because you are a stallion in bed---- you lie under the sheets and hold her in your arms.”
― Sara Desai, To Have and to Heist

“And if Happily Ever After is how a fairytale ends, then ours ended here. But truly, it had only just begun, for love is like that. One peak is crested only to reveal another. One depth plumbed, only to uncover greater depths still, and a thousand years from now, when we are nothing more than terrifying legends to the mortals who were once my kin, we two will still be learning our love as one learns the heights of music, the breadth of art, and the deep deep depths of the written word.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Die With Your Lord

“Dear God, I know you get millions of requests. I know, you know, that I am drunk, and high I know you will forgive me, I had a very good time tonight.


You know, because you know everything. I don’t know how many requests you get daily, to write a happy ending for people, but I’ve never had a happy beginning or a middle, and now as you know I am on the last chapter of my life; I need to get on the “Happy Ending” list, I pray that you hear my prayer, and write a happy ending for me. Amen.”
― Kenan Hudaverdi, Emotional Rhapsody

“Dear God, I know you get millions of requests. I know, you know, that I am drunk, and high I know you will forgive me, I had a very good time tonight.
You know, because you know everything. I don’t know how many requests you get daily, to write a happy ending for people, but I’ve never had a happy beginning or a middle, and now as you know I am on the last chapter of my life; I need to get on the “Happy Ending” list, I pray that you hear my prayer, and write a happy ending for me. Amen.”
― Kenan Hudaverdi, Emotional Rhapsody

“This is amazing," he said, then moved in for a real kiss on the lips. "You're amazing."
The miracle of the oil was great and everything, sure. But me falling in love? With Seth? That was a miracle, too. And, if you asked me, it was even better than doughnuts.”
― Amanda Elliot, Love You a Latke