Applied Quote by Steven Weber

Happy endings are a luxury of fiction

— Trudi Canavan

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately…

— Douglas Sirk

One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at…

— China Mieville

People are looking for a simplicity in their fictional worlds where good and evil are clearly delineated, that you can't find in the real…

— Robert J. Sawyer

The real happy endings come after a story with lots of ups and downs.

— Anonymous

There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in…

— Jodi Picoult

I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.

— Joe Wright

... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

— Mercedes Lackey

“Entertainments nearly always end with triumph or disaster - happiness achieved, or total, tragic defeat precluding any hope of it. But there is always…

— Ann Leckie

The reality of our lives is never like what you see in those romantic comedies or dramas. Things don't always end good. Things don't…

— Andrew Haigh

Corrupt fantasy points us, or forms us, in a consciousness that can lead to thinking that evil is good and good is evil. In…

— Michael O'Brien

There has been a lot of bad fantasy in the past - I'm by no means saying that all classic fantasy out there is…

— Terry Pratchett