Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days.

Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.

Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much
OSCAR WILDE

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
OSCAR WILDE She: Why was there a distance between you and me?
He: Distance makes us realize how much we mis...
AVIJEET DAS

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a f...
CHRIS CLEAVE I miss the innocence of your childish sweet smile
and your gentle, knowing touch.

...
URSULA DENISE WALKER

I love being with yo so bad
When we aren't together, I miss you so bad
One of these days I...
COLLEEN HOOVER Did you know", Matilda said suddenly, "that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of six hundred...
ROALD DAHL You look like crap, prince. Did you miss me?"

-Puck
JULIE KAGAWA Come back to me.
Where have you gone?
And why so long?
I miss the star below your lip...
KAMAND KOJOURI I miss you in the maddening noise of crowd,
I hear your laughter at my folly with sweet indiffe...
DEBATRAYEE BANERJEE I miss you in the maddening noise of crowd,
I hear your laughter at my folly with sweet indiffe...
DEBATRAYEE BANERJEE Did she help people?" Miss Level added.
...
...
"She made them help one another, she ...
TERRY PRATCHETT what do you miss
do they miss you
when they're around
do they support your peace
R.H. SIN I miss you. I miss you so fucking bad it hurts, but I don't know how to find you even though you'...
J.R. WARD Everyone always thinks they're the good guys,' said Ruby.
'Yes they do,' said LB. 'But happily ...
LAUREN CHILD And now, Henry," said Miss Tilney, "that you have made us understand each other, you may as well mak...
JANE AUSTEN Love you,” Xavier said just before he drifted back to sleep.
“Love you more,” I said play...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO I will miss
my chest exploding
you coming home late
not turning on the light
alw...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I miss you.
I miss you. I miss you, I miss you.
Be ready, because when I see you, I'll nev...
VERONICA ROSSI The god of wine looked around at the assembled crowd. “Miss me?”

The satyrs fell over...
RICK RIORDAN Where are you and I'm so sorry
I cannot sleep, I cannot dream tonight
I need somebody and al...
BLINK 182 No, I don't miss you... Not in a way that one is missed.
But I think of you.
Sometimes. SREESHA DIVAKARAN Did you say all that you meant to
Before the curtain closed?
Or did you feel so much more<...
MARGO T. ROSE I miss that jellied coconut and that
invigorating coconut water,
Oh, how I miss my sweet B...
CHARMAINE J FORDE Witches are naturally nosy,” said Miss Tick, standing up. “Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet...
TERRY PRATCHETT The — the prophecy . . . the prediction . . . Trelawney . . .”
“Ah, yes. How much did you...
J.K. ROWLING Did I Not Say To You

Did I not say to you, “Go not there, for I am your friend; in this...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham.

She shrugged her sh...
AGATHA CHRISTIE And see those clouds?'
'Hard to miss'
'Those are cumulus clouds. Did you know that?'
...
JENNIFER E. SMITH You can't go."

"Give me a reason why I shouldn't."

"Because I'll miss you, dam...
SARAH J. MAAS Why are we bringing him along, again?" Will inquired, of the world in general as well as his sister....
CASSANDRA CLARE This isn’t happily ever after.
It’s so much more than that.
KIERA CASS I sure do miss that woman. Smart. Funny. Sweet. She never gave me a moment's trouble."

"G...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist. MARTIN NIEMOLLER Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron,” Sebastian said approvingly. “Excellent choice.”

JULIA QUINN They miss the whisper that runs
any day in your mind,
"Who are you really, wanderer?"-- WILLIAM STAFFORD But why did she come back and take her card away?" asked Miss Mackintosh. "I told Florence that Miss...
E.F. BENSON But I love him."
"So love him."
"But I miss him."
"So miss him. Send him love and lig...
ELIZABETH GILBERT In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own.

Or at least thi...
JODI PICOULT Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name."...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Dear Miss Independent,

I've decided that of all the women I've ever known, you are the on...
LISA KLEYPAS Do you miss Wales?” Tessa inquired.
Will shrugged lightly. “What’s to miss? Sheep and sin...
CASSANDRA CLARE Look, this is all very, very weird. Why are you focusing on rumours and urban legends? You haven’t...
DEREK LANDY One day you'll miss me like i missed you
One day you'll cry for me like I cried for you and
...
NEIL GAIMAN Have you thought of an ending?"
"Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant."
"Oh, that...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I will never let you know how much you hurt me
No, I will never tell you
The lasts few m...
HENRY ROLLINS In the ebb and flow of my life,
in years gone by, in moments now,
in currents, undertows...
ROBERT TRABOLD Hey I'm sorry about the other day. Didn't mean to give you a hard time, I ---"

He held u...
KIERA CASS I'm sorry,' said the shopkeeper. 'I can't understand your ridiculous accent.'
'My accent?'
DEREK LANDY Holy men tell us life is a mystery.
They embrace that concept happily.
But some mysteries ...
DEAN KOONTZ I look at the sky and the dust that separates us from the stars that will be my home. I breathe in t...
CORINNE DUYVIS Your fangs are showing, Miss Lyndon."

"Are they?" she asked, reaching up to touch her fac...
JULIA QUINN In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live? JACK KORNFIELD I will love you like the desert burns along the sun when they are together,
and when you will b...
SANHITA BARUAH misgivings, n.

Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted...
DAVID LEVITHAN I'm always nervous, ... I was really nervous on that last one. You
never feel calm. You just ha...
JASON ELAM Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)"

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
T...
GREEN DAY My muscles informed me they did not want to go through any more exercise today. So I suggest that ma...
RICHELLE MEAD Late Fragment

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I...
RAYMOND CARVER No, Mo," Miss Watkins said, turning to Nesta who was crying with laughter. "Nesta Williams, seeing a...
CATHY HOPKINS Why I Cannot Relate

"What do you think of this piece?" Someone will ask
About some w...
KYLEE CARRIER Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, b...
YANN MARTEL What about San Francisco?"
"What about it?"
"Did you like it?"
She shrugged. "It was ...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN Miss Mackintosh waved her arms wildly.

"Oh, please stop, and let me guess," she cried. "I...
E.F. BENSON Can I ask you something?" you said. "How did you ever survive that scandal?"

She said, "I...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN I will miss you
not because you taught me,
not because you helped me on all steps of educa...
HASIL PAUDYAL People always ask me
"Son what does it take
To reach out and touch your dreams?"
To t...
TIM MCGRAW And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But...
STEPHEN KING The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity
and I would not own one
except I ...
BRIAN ANDREAS What?" I asked uneasily. "Why are you looking at me like that?"

He shook his head, the sm...
RICHELLE MEAD Why didn't you write all this time?
Did you not remember us in a song?
A dance?
In th...
KAMAND KOJOURI Think I'll miss you forever,
Like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky.
LANA DEL REY I miss everything about you
Can't believe that I still want you
And after all the things w...
COLBIE CAILLAT I hope one day
somebody loves you
so much
that they see violets
in the bags unde...
TRISTA MATEER The corpse is too gentle,
With a touch, so parental,
I dare not refuse,
With a lot to...
RAHIM HAIDER Andrei, did you like the opera?"
"Not particularly."
"Andrei, do you see what you're missi...
AYN RAND You mean they killed her?" asked David.
They ate her," said Brother Number One. "With porridge....
JOHN CONNOLLY You look like you belong in a bad comic book,” I told him cheerfully.
----------------------<...
ALYXANDRA HARVEY And they all lived happily to the end of their days.
MARISSA MEYER Valkyrie dialed Skulduggery's number and he picked up. 'Hey,' she said, 'It's me.'
Skulduggery ...
DEREK LANDY But we are running out of colors," said Mr. Violet, intervening.
"That cannot be the case," sai...
TERRY PRATCHETT May Light always surround you;
Hope kindle and rebound you.
May your Hurts turn to Healing...
D. SIMONE How can I judge?" she said at last. "To me, he is a hero. To the world a monster." She let her head ...
ROBERT FANNEY What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether...
CHARLES DICKENS Traveling through the Dragon's Den, it has just been explained that Haroun, the Ifrit, has been caug...
NEIL GAIMAN They speak very well of you".
- "They speak very well of everybody."
- "That so bad?"
IAIN M. BANKS When in Reading Gaol he told me that the warders in the dock had been gentle and kind, but the visit...
CHARLES S. RICKETTS You knew, from the first day in Miss Garber’s class that I was going to do the play, didn’t you....
NICHOLAS SPARKS How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?'
'It will d...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN And besides, we’re not really all that different. Although I think I’m a little more . . . ” JILL SHALVIS Problem is, you can’t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. You’re like a do...
ELIZABETH GILBERT (fairy tale).
i wanna tell you a joke
but it will be like the frog finds the princess ZELDA GIN I've written you sixty-seven love poems.
Here’s another one for you.
But really, for me....
KAMAND KOJOURI The Pretender

Keep you in the dark you know they all pretend
Keep you in the dark an...
FOO FIGHTERS Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him;
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I felt like the end of an A-Team episode when everything worked out, and the heroes all got to go ho...
SHAY SAVAGE Did you bring me a hamburger?
Did I-No,Myrnin,I didn't bring you a hamburger.Bizarre.He'd neve...
RACHEL CAINE He sighed, then said, "So basically, you're stalking her."
"I am NOT stalking her." I insisted....
JENNIFER ECHOLS My phone pinged. It was a text from Cookie.

I'm not good at cocking guns.
DARYNDA JONES

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OSCAR WILDE None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
OSCAR WILDE Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.
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OSCAR WILDE Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
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OSCAR WILDE There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
OSCAR WILDE LORD GORING:
I am glad you have called. I am going to give you some good advice.
MRS. CHEVELEY...
OSCAR WILDE LORD GORING:
My father told me to go to bed an hour ago. I don't see why I shouldn't give you ...
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OSCAR WILDE That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating t...
OSCAR WILDE Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beau...
OSCAR WILDE I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across ... Please do not shoot t...
OSCAR WILDE I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
OSCAR WILDE Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your...
OSCAR WILDE Hatred is blind, as well as love.
OSCAR WILDE Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go
OSCAR WILDE It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then mere...
OSCAR WILDE Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and lit...
OSCAR WILDE Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteent...
OSCAR WILDE No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter enti...
OSCAR WILDE The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of...
OSCAR WILDE The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
OSCAR WILDE I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that...
OSCAR WILDE And beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is ...
OSCAR WILDE It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it
OSCAR WILDE Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem ne...
OSCAR WILDE Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
OSCAR WILDE Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's ow...
OSCAR WILDE Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
OSCAR WILDE To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is...
OSCAR WILDE Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes
OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is...
OSCAR WILDE The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of ...
OSCAR WILDE And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness...
OSCAR WILDE It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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