I know it's a crock of shit. I ain't offering you happily-ever-after. I'm offering you... happily-maybe-sometimes-ever-after. Sort of. You know, with warts and shit." -Thayer
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Related You know, nothing is ever happily-ever-after. Ever. CHARISMA CARPENTER Your wife is smarter than you; know this, and you will live happily ever after. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live hap... JOYCE RACHELLE Happily Ever After isn't really the end... K.C. RANDALL The same as real life, there is no happily ever after. CHUCK PALAHNIUK At the ripe old age of seventeen, Donna had decided that "happily ever after" didn't exist for freak... KAREN MAHONEY I want to be someone's right now, Simon, not their happily ever after. RAINBOW ROWELL And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent trea... JEAN FERRIS You can't get to happily ever after without turning the page. DOUG KIRCHHOFER I think we ought to live happily ever after. DIANA WYNNE JONES I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living h... DIANA WYNNE JONES I was in a happily ever after, but everything turned into a mess IN MY WORLD. MARIANA CORRêA COSTA Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Q... JANE YOLEN Happily ever after?" "If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertain... NORA ROBERTS Howl said, "I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew t... DIANA WYNNE JONES And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after. GAIL CARSON LEVINE It started with once upon a time and ended with happily ever after SIARA HOTH I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could... AMANDA HOCKING I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then. JIMMY BUFFETT I know i don't get the happily ever after. My knight and shinning armor took the highway detour arou... TERESA MUMMERT And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But... STEPHEN KING ...but it wouldn't be happily ever after without a kiss. STEFFANI RAFF And they all lived happily ever after, until they died. ALI SMITH Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOM... ARTHUR PHILLIPS Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn’t that the point? Happily ever after doesn’t ... ALICE HOFFMAN And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after. PIPER LAURIE This is the thing about fairy tales: You have to live through them, before you get to happily ever a... KAT HOWARD For a great memory, a Good-bye is a "happily ever after". RUKHSAR That's the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. Y... SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Who knows? Maybe you both live happily ever after, or maybe three months from now you end the relati... SATIN RUSSELL I blame Hollywood for skewing perspectives. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them, and if you m... JONATHAN TROPPER There is something infinitely better than happily-ever-after. There is happiness. Happiness is a liv... MARY BALOGH It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis. MARGARET WANDER BONANNO And they...LIVED! Life isn't always ‘Happily Ever After’, rather, loving FOREVER, regardless. CARMEN DESOUSA Not every fairy tale story that begins with 'Once upon a time,' has a 'Happily ever after'.... KHALIA N. HADES Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you be... ELLEN HOPKINS I'm building this reputation as YA heartbreaker, I know. Some people like 'happily ever afte... ADAM SILVERA This isn’t happily ever after. It’s so much more than that. KIERA CASS I hardly ever drink. I've just been more into... you know, it's just how it goes. I don't do shit an... QUINN ALLMAN Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I... CATHERINE GILBERT MURDOCK How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?' 'It will d... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I love that very traditional fairy tale where it's not all 'happily ever after.' I like ... ERIN MORGENSTERN I want to get married and have children and live happily ever after. That's important to me. CORY MONTEITH The spark of a near-miss and the spark of a near-hit were once wed, and lived happily ever after. LESLIE MIKLOSY I didn't want the 'ever' that came after happily. I didn't... don't want to be the one left behind. SAMANTHA SOTTO One conversation! One simple, honest, true conversation, and all your questions would be answered, a... ANNE ELISABETH STENGL It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. MARGARET BONNANO It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis. MARGARET BONNANO It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis MARGARET BONNANO Marriage, to me, implied stability, something sure and reliable. Happily ever after and all good thi... MEREDITH WILD No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves. STEPHEN KING Every cell in my body was telling me that he was my happily ever after. C.J. ENGLISH If you and I spend our seasons together we would find that our dreams and fantasies of happily-ever-... WAYLON H. LEWIS Some people never find it, some only pretend, but I just want to live happily ever after every now a... JIMMY BUFFETT …I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so d... ORSON SCOTT CARD After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love q... MOHAMED EL-ERIAN I brought us all Big Macs,” he said happily. “I know you dig ’em, remember?” “What the…�... J.R. WARD But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have ot believe in love storie... TAYLOR SWIFT True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with ... CARA LOCKWOOD And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted.... ROALD DAHL Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five ... VLADIMIR NABOKOV You ever seen A Christmas Story? You know toward the end when Ralphie beats the ever-loving shit out... EMMA CHASE We straighten , bu our snickering is barely contained as we attempt to focus our attention on a pict... STEPHANIE PERKINS Maybe there aren’t any happily ever afters, or white knights who ride in on valiant steeds to save... JULIE JOHNSON The trouble with psychics is that they convince you that you get this future no matter what you do. ... THOMM QUACKENBUSH Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the nob... RAINBOW ROWELL You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "B... PHILIP REEVE Not everyone gets a happily every after. Life is real and sometimes it's ugly and you just have to l... COLLEEN HOOVER If it looks like shit, smells like shit, and feels like shit, you don't have to actually eat it to k... SETH EISENBERG What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happ... SCOTT WESTERFELD My original business plan? To work hard, get 300 clients in the Rochester area, and live happily eve... TOM GOLISANO You're 16 years old, you don't know shit about shit, and PULL UP YOU'RE PANTS!!! DENIS LEARY Devotion and strength are some of the masterpieces, life has gifted my heart with. Although i am gra... SHANE J VAN DER VELDE I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought... CAT STEVENS Happily ever after could be waiting in a field a mile wide. Or a window as narrow as seven minutes. KIERA CASS, THE CROWN Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean... ALICE HOFFMAN I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up ... YUSUF ISLAM Holy shit," I breathed. "Hellhounds." "Harry," Michael said sternly. "You know I hate it when y... JIM BUTCHER Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together hap... J.R.R. TOLKIEN They may not have a happily ever after. But they all learn to rely on themselves without needing any... DEBORAH WILEY There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the... BILL CONDON Life, its so great, but when we act like shit and do shit, then it aint. Why should we act like that... TUPAC SHAKUR That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a h... GENA SHOWALTER I doubted myself, and that made me doubt you. But you weren’t the problem. You were never the prob... STEPHANIE PERKINS And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted.... ROALD DAHL I felt like the end of an A-Team episode when everything worked out, and the heroes all got to go ho... SHAY SAVAGE Danny couldn't help it, he laughed as he shook his head. "You bit the apple." "I bit the ... KELE MOON What I needed was to lose myself in a good book, one with tons of sex and angst, complete with an un... J. LYNN I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since. CARL SPITTELER So what's the point, then, if we can't be happy? Why are we doing any of this?" "Oh, ther... JAMES RILEY If you've ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck. JEFF FOXWORTHY Holy shit, are you positive?" "As a pregnancy test a month after prom. DARYNDA JONES I smile up at him. "It's beautiful. But what comes next?" "The best part." And he pulls me back... STEPHANIE PERKINS Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU For what it's worth, I think happiness is a fleeting condition, not a permanent state of goddamn min... TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO You are so sweet. This is unbelievable. Some schmo talks to you every two weeks, buys you a meal, du... H. RAVEN ROSE
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