Quote by Alice Munro

“There was a willful calm and happiness. I think people can decide to be happy. Maybe that was it.”

— Robert Reeves

“Joy could be romantic, and she knew he was too, though she played to the other side of him, the part that wasn't one…

— Joseph McElroy

“I had never heard her sound so calm, so resigned to her fate. She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was…

— Paulo Coelho

“She wanted him happy, more even than she wanted happiness for herself. And yet, knowing he was on his way to finding what he…

— Nora Roberts

“He took it for granted that she was content; and she resented his settled calm, his serene dullness, the very happiness she herself brought…

— Gustave Flaubert

“He thought she was happy. She didn't have the heart to tell him the truth. There was no need, anyway. Happiness never lasted, because…

— Lauren Oliver

“She was sometimes happy, in the sense of being somehow complete, and ready for what another day might bring. And knows she is no…

— William Gibson

“But there was, she knew, something else. Happiness, she supposed. Whatever that might be. What, exactly, she wondered, was happiness. Very positively she wanted…

— Nella Larsen

“It's ok to feel happy, right? She hoped he'd know what she meant.”

— Marisa de los Santos

“She liked that he wore their relationship so boldly, like a brightly colored shirt. Sometimes she worried that she was too happy. She would…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“But it had always been that smile. Not her position as Henry Wilcox’s possible wife nor the possibility that he could take his enemies…

— Anne Mallory

“Garnet was very happy. She was so happy, for no especial reason, that she felt as if she must move carefully so she wouldn't…

— Elizabeth Enright