Stories are about endings,’ he’d said. ‘They don’t mean anything unless they come to an end.

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RICHARD BACH

Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.
KRISTIN HANNAH Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.
JOHN PARKER Principles don't mean anything unless they apply to all citizens of this country.
MELVIN WATT Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to th...
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All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the r...
NEIL GAIMAN People are not mean to us because they don’t like us, but because they don’t like themselves.
JODI AMAN ...not all stories have happy endings; but that doesn't mean they're not worth the read.
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DEYTH BANGER You know why love stories have happy endings?” I shake my head.
“Because they end too early...
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PATRICK NESS ...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the on...
ARUNDHATI ROY These things are not infinite. At some point, they come to an end.
RAGHURAM RAJAN I DIDN’T WRITE THEM A HAPPY ENDING BECAUSE 17-YEAR-OLDS DON’T GET ENDINGS.
THEY GET BEGINN...
RAINBOW ROWELL I didn’t write them a happy ending because 17-year-olds don’t get endings.
They get beginni...
RAINBOW ROWELL Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed...
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed...
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE I don’t believe in happy endings,” Flynn said, spinning Tess and tilting up her chin. “Just ha...
BRYNN KELLY At halftime, I told them not to come out of the locker room unless they would come fight, scratch, c...
DOUG APLIN Come to the edge,' he said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' he said. They came. H...
PETER MCWILLIAMS Real love stories never have endings.
RICHARD BACH True love stories never have endings.
RICHARD BACH True love stories never have endings
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DR HITESH C SHETH People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.
C.S. LEWIS People say to the mentally ill, ‘You know so many people think the world of you.’ But when they ...
RICHEY EDWARDS My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.
EMMANUELLE BEART People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to
ERIN MORGENSTERN They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some f...
MIRA NAIR Come on, Feyre. We don’t bite. Unless you ask us to.
SARAH J. MAAS How come the Muggles don’t hear the bus?” said Harry.
“Them!” said Stan contemptuously....
J.K. ROWLING And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they&...
STEPHEN KING Stories don't always have happy endings."

This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they...
PATRICK NESS The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momen...
ANATOLE BROYARD Some people don’t realize what they have until it’s gone, but that does not always mean they are...
STEPHAN LABOSSIERE There are lots of love stories here.....They either end happily or everyone dies.
LAUREN DESTEFANO They never said anything about not being able to gain a prize by using a mulligan, ... They never sa...
ADAM FISHER Come to the edgeHe said. They said: We are afraid.Come to the edgeHe said. They came.He pushed them,...
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STEFAN EMUNDS It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
ERROL FLYNN They have to come over the political hurdle first before they can talk about anything else,
FRANK GONG The words I'm singing now Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
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TED NAIFEH People don’t really want to know anything about you. They just want you to fit into their little p...
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RYAN GOSLING Now they have a riddle.

- Criminal Minds
DEYTH BANGER And what do they want!?
DEYTH BANGER They told me that septic shock was his condition, caused by these bacteria. They never said anything...
FRIEDERIKE BOSZKO I don’t mean to take the bow off the end of your rain, but you gotta be smart about your first boy...
C. KENNEDY They stuff people’s heads down the toilet the first day at Stonewall,” he told Harry. “Want to...
J.K. ROWLING They said I had an okay chance to come back by districts.
ADAM FITTERER Those intellectuals are our natural enemies; the only kind who are worth anything are the musicians ...
ALFRED DE VIGNY Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin. And there are many th...
C. JOYBELL C. They won’t attack,” Reyna said, “unless you try to steal something, or unless I tell them to.
RICK RIORDAN I love you, Eliza,” I said.
She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t li...
KURT VONNEGUT If you don’t give anything, don’t expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come t...
CAROL S. DWECK When people cannot use you,
They will call you selfish and mean,
They don’t know your s...
CHARMAINE J FORDE The most-asked question when someone describes a novel, movie or short story to a friend probably is...
NANCY KRESS Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.
OLIVER HUDSON No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
JULIAN CASABLANCAS The surviving victim said they didn't do anything to provoke the shooting — they had just gone up ...
INSPECTOR DENNIS MAFFEI The surviving victim said they didn't do anything to provoke the shooting they had just gone up t...
INSPECTOR DENNIS MAFFEI It's inaccurate to talk about J.J. being a first-time anything. Just because he's telling stories on...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE There's no end to these stories being out there, because they sell,
JOE NICKELL These poor girls are just bad impersonators. They look cheap, really. There’s nothing special abou...
JAMES W. BODDEN And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to repl...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said...
WENDELL BERRY Losing something happens in a day. An end takes one day. We all seem to focus on that one day, on th...
C. JOYBELL C. They come find us. On a road trip here (in Charlotte), a clothing company called my room and said 'D...
JARRON COLLINS Maybe I don’t have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were abo...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I know that happy things and fun things eventually come to an end. But things that are scary and sad...
NATSUKI TAKAYA There are thousands of inspirational stories waiting to be told about young women who yearn for a gr...
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN How could an alphabet—letters that didn't even mean anything by themselves—be important?
Bu...
LINDA SUE PARK What sort of objects are Portkeys?” said Harry curiously. “Well, they can be anything,” said M...
J.K. ROWLING When they come in, I grab them and I hug them and I ask them if they are thirsty. The stories are un...
JOANNA CLARK People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing hap...
JOE WRIGHT Well, usually when a person shakes their head,” said McGonagall coldly, “they mean ‘no.’ So ...
J.K. ROWLING October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a boo...
NEIL GAIMAN As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it...
DENNIS PRAGER I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.
ANDREW DAVIES I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether t...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Most of the people who attempt to draw back the success of the world are those who don’t care abou...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.
ARTHUR GOLDEN Don’t you?” said Moody quietly. “It’s very simple, Karkaroff. Someone put Potter’s name in...
J.K. ROWLING I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often abou...
STIEG LARSSON Books understand me, but humans don't understand me. They are bad friends books are forever as well ...
DEYTH BANGER My eyes were closed, they're open now
DAMIEN RICE Sometimes people do things that hurt and it's not because they mean to. They just do. It doesn't nec...
RANDY K. MILHOLLAND When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they h...
SHARON SALZBERG Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other,...
IMMANUEL KANT I'm gullible. I think people mean what they say.
COLIN TREVORROW One of the things I admire about longer stories is the way writers can work with dead time and slowe...
MOLLY ANTOPOL Those guys are upset that they lost Game 1, but they're not too concerned. I was in that situation, ...
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ERIC ALLIN CORNELL The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL You should never rely on public transportation during the apocalypse. Everyone should know that.
J. CORNELL MICHEL I’m not a psychopath; my brain just works a little differently than that of the average person.
J. CORNELL MICHEL I'm sure my unique brain tastes the same as a normal brain. Actually, mine might be slightly tastier...
J. CORNELL MICHEL She’s probably good at compartmentalizing her feelings. Or maybe she just doesn’t have a soul.
J. CORNELL MICHEL Everyone should be comfy during the apocalypse.
J. CORNELL MICHEL I’m just trying to do my part to save the world.
J. CORNELL MICHEL Zombies don't discriminate; they'll eat any brain they can sink their infected teeth into. I'm sure ...
J. CORNELL MICHEL I've never really had time for romantic relationships. I have much more important things to worry ab...
J. CORNELL MICHEL It's more useful to have someone fear you than respect you.
J. CORNELL MICHEL They all call me "Excuse me," even though my nametag clearly says "Jordan." It's like people don't a...
J. CORNELL MICHEL My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of ...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a ...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Franc...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write program...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder...
PAUL DANO We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they ...
PAUL TILLICH Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
PAUL BRYANT Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to peop...
PAUL DIRAC I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They ...
PAUL DIRAC It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and...
PAUL DIRAC I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an econo...
PAUL DIRAC In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
PAUL DIRAC Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.
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