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“I guess I just don't get the point. It's like, why should you bother getting attached to anything if,A: It's never gonna last, andB: It hurts like hell when it's over?”
“The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.”
“The best endings resonate because they echo a word, phrase, or image from earlier in the story, and the reader is prompted to think back to that reference and speculate on a deeper meaning.”
“There are only three possible endings aren't there? to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. Thats it. All stories end like that.”
“Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, storie...”
“He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.”
“Should teach us that there are no happy endings, so no desilusionariamos us if we did not get our happy ending.”
“If you look for endings you can always find one, but I truly felt as if I had used up the last of my youth, if youth is that finite stage of life when it all feels expeditionary, inexact.”
“A true love story has no endings.”
“The end never comes when you think it will. Its always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.”
“Everything has to come to an end, sometime.”
“Major Chhetri's pronouncement when we'd first arrived in Nepal came echoing back: "Things that start in the rain end well.”
“Then he lets go and walks down the path, without another word. He doesn't look back. But I watch him go. I watch him all the way home.”
“But there was a fire waiting. And there was a little meal laid out on a blanket. And there was a whole world beyond that shoreline, beyond the forest, beyond the knuckle mountains, beyond, beyond, ...”
“As they walked away, hand in hand, they vowed to be together forever, not knowing that forever always ended.”
“It might be high summer all about but inside me everything is fall. The lonesomeness of a sad, slow closing of days, knowing frost is nigh and wind needling through the cabin chinks is just around ...”
“The anxiety, which in this state of their attachment must be the portion of Henry and Catherine, and of all who loved either, as to its final event, can hardly extend, I fear, to the bosom of my re...”
“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
“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.”
“Please write an ending where the Martians are defeated. Don't take away your readers' hope.”
