Happiness Quote by Carmen Maria Machado

“Stories can sense happiness and snuff it out like a candle.”

— Carmen Maria Machado

“Rather than envy, anticipation, or joy, what I feel when I look at the bride is a shortness of breath. I hear the echo…

— Nicole Hardy

“Weddings are great, but they mostly end up in marriages and that is the problem.”

— Radovan Kavický

“I married the heroine of my stories.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.”

— Kate Chopin

“ Bride , n. - A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“When it's over, I want to say all my life I was a bride married to amazement.”

— Mary Oliver

“Why is that fairy-tales always treat marriage as an ending? And always such a perfectly happy one?”

— Salman Rushdie

“A story must be exceptional enough to justify its telling. We storytellers are all ancient mariners, and none of us is justified in stopping…

— Thomas Hardy

“If only I had known that it takes a lot more than love to make a marriage work, then maybe our story would be…

— Mia Asher

“The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are not useful…

— Ada Calhoun

“Mrs. Vice turned to the weddings page. She liked to look at the smiling brides and imagine how miserable they would soon be.”

— Kelly Easton