What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.
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Related And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after. PIPER LAURIE The same as real life, there is no happily ever after. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean... ALICE HOFFMAN One key quality of all global achievers is that, they keep improving day after day. They set standar... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR And they...LIVED! Life isn't always ‘Happily Ever After’, rather, loving FOREVER, regardless. CARMEN DESOUSA Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after d... HARUKI MURAKAMI 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 You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live hap... JOYCE RACHELLE Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every ye... VIRGINIA WOOLF The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day. CHARLES DICKENS The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day... CHARLES DICKENS Day after day I'm missing you. Week after week I'm forgetting you. Month after month I'm moving on. ... MAHMOUD EL HALLAB And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But... STEPHEN KING Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn’t that the point? Happily ever after doesn’t ... ALICE HOFFMAN Life shouldn’t be a monotonous cycle day after day. Life is meant to be explored, enjoyed, and, we... AVINA CELESTE Happily ever after?" "If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertain... NORA ROBERTS And they all lived happily ever after, until they died. ALI SMITH Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour a... PAUL AUSTER They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived t... KHALED HOSSEINI It simply came back year after year after year. The first letter I wrote Congress to oppose eliminat... RONNIE CUMMINS Several died the day the bomb was dropped. Some lived six months after the explosion but died anyway... JOSEPH G. PETERSON After a year in therapy my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone" LARRY BROWN I never really did years of movie-after-movie-after-movie but when you've got three toddlers in ... JULIA ROBERTS In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously. Journalism was seen as a hac... GERALD CLARKE It is one thing to speak kindly to an irritating stranger on Monday. It is quite another thing to go... JOAN D. CHITTISTER Not everyone gets a happily every after. Life is real and sometimes it's ugly and you just have to l... COLLEEN HOOVER In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o clock in the morning, day after day. SOURCE UNKNOWN I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore y... BERNIE MAC Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids afte... ELIZABETH GILBERT Meant to be together? Are you listening to yourself? This isn't one of your fairy tales, Fallon. Thi... COLLEEN HOOVER But the difference between a good film and real life is that in real life, there's the next day, the... HUGH GRANT Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after yea... SUSAN SONTAG It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was th... FRANCINE RIVERS In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD What you have within you in your life is what you are after death. If you have explored it to some e... BELSEBUUB In the real dark night of the soul it is always three o' clock in the morning, day after day. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD On any given day, the government is spending millions of taxpayer dollars, but we simply have no vis... CHRISTOPHER YUKINS You mean they killed her?" asked David. They ate her," said Brother Number One. "With porridge.... JOHN CONNOLLY Well we writers have defined life
in many ways to our meaningful perceptions
towards of how we or th... HLONIM We had a real good team day. Those four kids are one and two seeds. After that, we had a real good s... DOUG ROPER Facing test after test in life is the real taste of life# [EMAIL PROTECTED] Facing test after test in life is the real taste of life# [EMAIL PROTECTED] And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after. GAIL CARSON LEVINE Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the nob... RAINBOW ROWELL That’s what books do. They are the building blocks, the DNA, if you will, of you. Think of everyth... DAVE EGGERS And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after ... C.S. LEWIS How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?' 'It will d... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I was in a happily ever after, but everything turned into a mess IN MY WORLD. MARIANA CORRêA COSTA They had balloons in the rafters, ready to go down after they won. To see their fans after that loss... BRAD BUCKMAN Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOM... ARTHUR PHILLIPS I lived that life for real, so to talk about it was like a joke, you know what I mean? TONE LOC (Yao) looked real good tonight. He was patient in the post and did what he had to. Yao is getting be... DARIUS MILES Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing e... CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Make progress one time and it makes you happy. Make progress day after day, week after week and it m... GREG WERNER Make progress one time and it makes you happy. Make progress day after day,
week after week and it m... GREG WERNER Performance had been mixed early in the year, but they finished on par with last year after a strong... JOSH ROSENBERG A happy ending. Huh. I thought that was why we were here. Now. Five hundred years into Earth’s fut... A.B. SHEPHERD How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it? ELIZABETH GILBERT The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough,
but in getting out after you a... ZIG ZIGLAR In real life, nothing would be more tedious than trailing around after two strangers as they went ho... CRAIG BROWN The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what probl... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Sometimes I thought life was precious, and everything was so important; but other times I thought hu... LIU CIXIN What is the one thing that gets you up every morning? The one thing that keeps you going every day, ... JAMES A. MURPHY You want something real bad? Go after it with ferocity like if your life depended on it and never ev... ZIAD K. ABDELNOUR And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent trea... JEAN FERRIS Happily Ever After isn't really the end... K.C. RANDALL 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 If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant afte... MELISSA DE LA CRUZ But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have ot believe in love storie... TAYLOR SWIFT The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be l... STING I thought I had a real chance at a low score after eagle-birdie, but I never did quite get it close ... GIL MORGAN Every cell in my body was telling me that he was my happily ever after. C.J. ENGLISH I lived a really wonderful life with this man and even after our divorce, it was incredible. PRISCILLA PRESLEY And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted.... ROALD DAHL In books and movies, the stories always end when the two people finally have their romantic kiss. Th... GAYLE FORMAN After a year of therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone. LARRY BROWN Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together hap... J.R.R. TOLKIEN After my junior year coach Zacher came to me and said 'I was talking to the coaches at KU and they s... CLINT JOHNSON After a hike in December last year, the real short-term interest rates remain zero or close to zero. GUY QUADEN In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year aft... MANGOSUTHU BUTHELEZI I'm a 27-year-old freshman, and returning to college after a seven-year break from high school w... HANNAH KEARNEY I made a mistake to go after him that day. I thought it was too important but I never said the thing... LANCE ARMSTRONG People recognized you or they didn’t, and it was unrelated to knowing you. Knowing you could just ... CURTIS SITTENFELD Single is no longer a lack of options – but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defin... MANDY HALE I'm real proud of the eighth inning after what they did in the sixth. She mowed them down. DALE BUVID Year after year, we've had growth with our events, Katrina aside. But when you throw Katrina in the ... MACK BRADLEY I took a break after 'Confessions.' I was real picky. And then I suddenly realized I hadn... SAM ROCKWELL You never know with the first round of the year. I was thinking real low after the 14th hole, but it... TOM WATSON I know it's dangerous to take on bloggers. They can go after you every day, all day long, and an... JERRY SALTZ ...but it wouldn't be happily ever after without a kiss. STEFFANI RAFF In this day you are celebrating one more year of life and I am very happy to be with you. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving. IMAN The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual ... HENRI NOUWEN I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after bro... SISSY SPACEK Last August, I was sitting on a couch wondering if I was ever going to play golf again. A year later... BRANDT JOBE Life is full of lessons; learn the lessons in life you meet each moment of time well! So many people... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
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