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“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.”
“I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.”
“Sometimes painful endings bring the best new beginnings.”
“We had been younger. Yup, you can grow a lot in the blink of an eye.”
“Please write an ending where the Martians are defeated. Don't take away your readers' hope.”
“I think here I will leave you. It has come to seemthere is no perfect ending.Indeed, there are infinite endings.Or perhaps, once one begins,there are only endings.”
“Neither father nor son moved, but stayed face to face for hours and hours, neither looking away nor surrendering, until the sun finished its daily pilgrimage, for no day is so long that it is not e...”
“There is no real ending. Its just the place where you stop the story.”
“In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.”
“It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to has power over you.”
“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, y...”
“Only in cartoons and fairy tales and greeting cards do endings have glitter”
“Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending anytime. You know where you are with an ending.”
“Once upon a time I thought I could change stories, make them go the way I wanted, instead of where they actually went.”
“It's not the endings that will haunt youBut the space where they should lie,The things that simply fadedWithout one final wave goodbye.”
“We may be different, but in this moment we're feeling the exact same thing: the sad kind of bliss where you realize, suddenly, how perfect your life really has been all along. So perfect it hurts, ...”
“These felt very much like last moments.”
“There's things that have no finish, Scully, no ending to speak of. There's no justice to it, but that's the God's truth. The only end some things have is the end you give em.”
“With us, there were always too many false starts. I believe that what's meant to be usually has a way of working out... and with us, it never did. Call it timing, call it fate, call it what you wan...”
“But she couldn't start this, because then it would end. Stories like this always ended. She couldn't take this pleasure, because she would spend the rest of her life missing it, hurting from it.”