“No. Though I do think that sometimes in books, happy endings take a different shape than they do in real life. In books, they’re kind of a fixed state. But I think in real life . . . we continue to have conversations. We continue to change. We continue to live in the happy ending, even as life happens around us. I think in books, the characters deal with all their issues, and that’s when they can be together. I think in real life it’s not that simple.”
