Happily Ever After Quotes

“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“This isn’t happily ever after.
It’s so much more than that.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would be a good deal more hair-raising than any storybook made it sound, though she was determined to try. "It should be hair-raising," added Howl.
"And you'll exploit me," Sophie said.
"And then you'll cut up all my suits to teach me.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“Single is no longer a lack of options – but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defined by your relationship status but to live every day Happily and let your Ever After work itself out.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

“Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.”
― Jane Yolen, Briar Rose

“And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent treatments, and unexpected calamities) ever after.”
― Jean Ferris, Twice Upon a Marigold

“Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about marriage is forever happy. There are moments of bliss, to be sure, and lengthy spans of satisfied companionship. Yet these come at no small effort, and the girl who reads such fiction dreaming her troubles will end ere she departs the altar is well advised to seek at once a rational women to set her straight.”
― Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Princess Ben

“I want to be someone's right now, Simon, not their happily ever after.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.”
― Joshua Kai, The Quantum Prayer: An Inspiring Guide to Love, Healing, and Creating the Best Life Possible

“Happily Single" is recognizing that you don’t need or want to be rescued from your life by a handsome prince because your life is pretty awesome, as is.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

“Love only yourself a little bit longer, until you can't stand not to love someone else.”
― Kiera Cass, Happily Ever After

“Howl said, "I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would make a good deal more eventful than any story made it sound, though she was determined to try. "It should be hair-raising," added Howl. "And you'll exploit me," Sophie said. "And then you'll cut up all my suits to teach me," added Howl.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“Maybe there aren’t any happily ever afters, or white knights who ride in on valiant steeds to save the day. Maybe, in real life, Prince Charming isn’t always perfect – he’s just as flawed as everyone else in the tale. And that princess, alone in her tower? She’s not perfect either. Birds don’t braid her hair every morning, she can’t serenade wild forest creatures into servitude, and she doesn’t even own a ball gown. But she’s also smart enough to know not to accept poisoned apples from strangers, or prick her finger on deadly spindles.

She doesn’t wait around for a prince to charge in and slay the dragon. Maybe she saves herself and in the end, rides off into her own goddamned sunset.”
― Julie Johnson, Like Gravity

“His world looked like a storm. I was going to be its center.”
― Kiera Cass, Happily Ever After

“How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?'
'It will do well, if it ever comes to that,' said Frodo.
'Ah!' said Sam. 'And where will they live? That's what I often wonder.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis.”
― Margaret Bonanno

“I will never forget your fire. I can't wait to see what you do.”
― Kiera Cass, Happily Ever After

“Her laugh, her laugh was the sound that brought him out of the darkness and into the light. Her laugh dragged him, by his damn collar, through the bullshit clouding his mind and infecting his thoughts.”
― Anna Todd, After Ever Happy

“That's why you can't give up. Heroes don't give up.”
― Kiera Cass, Happily Ever After

“Happily ever after?"
"If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertainment fiction, what's the point? Real life sucks too often.”
― Nora Roberts, Angels Fall

“Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.”
― Arthur Phillips, The Song Is You

“So what's the point, then, if we can't be happy? Why are we doing any of this?"

"Oh, there's definitely happiness," Jack said, turning his back on the ocean and looking at her. "But it's just about moments, not ever-afters." He grinned. "Like when you're right in the middle of the ocean with your friends, with no one trying to kill you in any kind of horrifying way. You have to appreciate these moments when they happen, 'cause obviously we don't get many of them.”
― james riley, The Half Upon a Time Trilogy (Boxed Set): Half Upon a Time; Twice Upon a Time; Once Upon the End

“Maybe our Happily Ever After hadn't worked on the first shot. And maybe Happily Ever Afters weren't a singular event. Maybe they were something you had to work at, and build, and never give up on, as long as they were something you still wanted.”
― Sophie Gonzales, Only Mostly Devastated

“Luck was fine and well, but I didn't need it. I had a plan.”
― Kiera Cass, Happily Ever After

“You think you walk, Lucy? I think you fly. You see yourself in a uniform? I see you in a cape. You're a hero, of the quietest but most genuine nature.”
― Kiera Cass, Happily Ever After

“And they...LIVED! Life isn't always ‘Happily Ever After’, rather, loving FOREVER, regardless.”
― Carmen DeSousa, She Belongs To Me

“At the ripe old age of seventeen, Donna had decided that "happily ever after" didn't exist for freaks like her.”
― Karen Mahoney, The Iron Witch

“The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“Happily Ever After isn't really the end...”
― KC Randall

“Danny couldn't help it, he laughed as he shook his head. "You bit the apple."

"I bit the apple," Paul agreed. His eyes glimmered bright blue as tears welled up in them and he gave Danny a soft smile.”
― Kele Moon, Beyond Eden