Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.
And in stories, endings matter.
I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I want to show them you can find a way out of it.
All endings are inexorably tied to new beginnings. That's the nature of the journey. It continues to unfold. It builds on itself. It can't help itself from doing that. Cherish the moments, all of them. You have seen and felt much in life so far. But still, the best is yet to come.
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.
My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
Hermes rolled his eyes. "Surely you've seen network TV lately. It's clear they don't know whether they're coming or going. That's because Janus is in charge of programming. He loves ordering new shows and cancelling them after two episodes. God of beginnings and endings, after all. Anyway, I was bringing him some magic doormats, and I was double-parked -" "You have to worry about double-parking?" "Will you let me tell the story?" "Sorry. "
The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.
Stories don’t always have happy endings.
Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise.
Have you thought of an ending?" "Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant. " "Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?" "It will do well, if it ever came to that. " "Ah! And where will they live? That's what I often wonder.
Happy endings make me puke.
I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time. I believe very few people want to hurt others. I believe that you can be surprised by life. I believe in happy endings.
To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.
Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.
Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees
All deaths, all endings, are a path to the next beginning.
beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.