endings

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c314aa7	No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!	a-beautiful-beginning a-new-beginning endings endings-and-beginnings inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes new-beginnings the-end	C. JoyBell C.
aec242c	The splendid thin	deep deep-thoughts endings failures falling falling-apart inspirational life-lessons life-path life-quotes new-beginnings positive-thinking profound silence	Sanober Khan
91b93f5	The splendid thing about falling apart silently... is that you can start over as many times as you like.	deep-thoughts endings failures falling falling-apart inspirational life-lessons life-path life-quotes new-beginnings positive-thinking profound silence	Sanober Khan
dae61ba	It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.	endings friendship growing-up life	Stephen Chbosky
a71c3a4	Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.	dark endings love phury ruin	J.R. Ward
4a40c4f	"October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content."	endings happy-endings stories	Neil Gaiman
5837106	Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question..	endings inspirational	Stephen King
df699cf	"Have you thought of an ending?" "Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant." "Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?" "It will do well, if it ever came to that." "Ah! And where will they live? That's what I often wonder."	books endings frodo happy-endings lotr sam-gamgee writing	J.R.R. Tolkien
08ebc87	The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.	endings goodbyes leaving starting-over	Jodi Picoult
c021b32	Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now.	endings goodbyes growing-up relationships understanding	Emily Giffin
dfc0524	And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.	endings life	Hunter S. Thompson
6a4bd86	"Since when," he asked,	beginnings-and-endings endings poetry	Seamus Heaney
86f1069	Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.	death endings growing-older living-life problems	Colum McCann
ca4e706	"All's well that ends well.' 'Assuming there's an end somewhere,' Aomame said. Tamaru formed some short creases near his mouth that were faintly reminiscent of a smile. 'There has to be an end somewhere. It's just that nothing's labeled "This is the end." Is the top rung of a ladder labeled "This is the last rung. Please don't step higher than this'?" Aomame shook her head. 'It's the same thing,' Tamaru said. Aomame said, 'If you use common sense and keep your eyes open, it becomes clear enough where the end is.' Tamaru nodded. 'And even if it doesn't' -- he made a falling gesture with his finger -- 'the end is right there."	common-sense end endings eyes-wide-open hope hopelessness keep-going-keep-your-eyes-open ladder suicide	Haruki Murakami
e737f9a	Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.	20th-century-literature bliss certainty cynicism czech-literature death death-and-dying endings gallows-humor gifts sleep	Milan Kundera
d138372	Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.	beginnings-and-endings endings pain regret	Robin Hobb
b8b6f60	"I have a story to tell you. It has many beginnings, and perhaps one ending. Perhaps not. Beginnings and endings are contingent things anyway; inventions, devices. Where does any story really begin? There is always context, always an encompassingly greater epic, always something before the described events, unless we are to start every story with "BANG! Expand! Sssss...," then itemize the whole subsequent history of the universe before settling down, at last, to the particular tale in question. Similarly, no ending is final, unless it is the end of all things..."	contexxt ending endings stories	Iain M. Banks
17892b5	All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.	dreams endings happiness happy-ending stories	Neil Gaiman
102b765	" ,' Dad said, 'has the sort of ellipsis ending most American audiences would rather undergo a root canal than be left with, not only because they loathe anything left to the imagination-we're talking about the country that invented spandex-but also because they are a confident, self-assured nation. They Family. They Right from Wrong. They know God-many of them attest to daily chats with the man. And the idea that none of us can truly know anything at all-not the lives of our friends or family, not even ourselves-is a thought they'd rather be shot in the arm with their own semi-automatic rifle than face head-on. Personally, I think there's something terrific about not knowing, relinquishing man's feeble attempt to control. When you throw up your hands, say, "Who knows?" you can get on with the sheer gift of being alive." --	ambiguity ambiguous-ending america americans control endings family foreign-film god right-and-wrong	Marisha Pessl
5d07f5c	I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them, streams in the desert.	beginnings endings inspirational triumph	Bryce Courtenay
6aad532	Resist change at your own peril, Vivian. When something ends, let it end.	elizabeth-gilbert-quotes endings let-it-be let-it-go quotes-about-change resistance-to-change	Elizabeth Gilbert
59d1f9f	Those of the Elven-race that lived still in Middle-earth waned and faded, and Men usurped the sunlight. Then the Quendi wandered in the lonely places of the great lands and the isles, and took to the moonlight and the starlight, and to the woods and caves, becoming as shadows and memories, save those who ever and anon set sail into the West and vanished from Middle-earth.	endings fading first-age middle-earth quendi tolkien	J.R.R. Tolkien
e66f134	Just cuz you get to the end doesn't mean you know what happened.	ending endings karen-tei-yamashita learning stories tropic-of-orange understanding what-happened	Karen Tei Yamashita
a9a470f	It ended sadly. The kind of ending where you wait together, holding hands and weeping, while off in another room, love slowly dies.	endings love love-hurts love-quotes	Abigail Thomas
411f95e	For example--I wonder--could you tell my jumbled story in exactly one hundred chapters, not one more, not one less? I'll tell you, that's one thing I hate about my nickname, the way that number runs on forever. It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.	endings pi	Yann Martel
11bea1a	Of the two thousand original copies printed of The History of Love, some were bought and read, many were bought and not read, some were given as gifts, some sat fading in bookstore windows serving as landing docks for flies, some were marked up with pencil, and a good many were shredded to pulp along with other unread or unwanted books, their sentences parsed and minced in the machine's spinning blades.	books-without-homes endings	Nicole Krauss

c314aa7

No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!

a-beautiful-beginning a-new-beginning endings endings-and-beginnings inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes new-beginnings the-end

C. JoyBell C.

aec242c

The splendid thin

deep deep-thoughts endings failures falling falling-apart inspirational life-lessons life-path life-quotes new-beginnings positive-thinking profound silence

Sanober Khan

91b93f5

The splendid thing about falling apart silently... is that you can start over as many times as you like.

deep-thoughts endings failures falling falling-apart inspirational life-lessons life-path life-quotes new-beginnings positive-thinking profound silence

Sanober Khan

dae61ba

It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.

endings friendship growing-up life

Stephen Chbosky

a71c3a4

Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.

dark endings love phury ruin

J.R. Ward

4a40c4f

"October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content."

endings happy-endings stories

Neil Gaiman

5837106

Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question..

endings inspirational

Stephen King

df699cf

"Have you thought of an ending?" "Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant." "Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?" "It will do well, if it ever came to that." "Ah! And where will they live? That's what I often wonder."

books endings frodo happy-endings lotr sam-gamgee writing

J.R.R. Tolkien

08ebc87

The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.

endings goodbyes leaving starting-over

Jodi Picoult

c021b32

Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now.

endings goodbyes growing-up relationships understanding

Emily Giffin

dfc0524

And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.

endings life

Hunter S. Thompson

6a4bd86

"Since when," he asked,

beginnings-and-endings endings poetry

Seamus Heaney

86f1069

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

death endings growing-older living-life problems

Colum McCann

ca4e706

"All's well that ends well.' 'Assuming there's an end somewhere,' Aomame said. Tamaru formed some short creases near his mouth that were faintly reminiscent of a smile. 'There has to be an end somewhere. It's just that nothing's labeled "This is the end." Is the top rung of a ladder labeled "This is the last rung. Please don't step higher than this'?" Aomame shook her head. 'It's the same thing,' Tamaru said. Aomame said, 'If you use common sense and keep your eyes open, it becomes clear enough where the end is.' Tamaru nodded. 'And even if it doesn't' -- he made a falling gesture with his finger -- 'the end is right there."

common-sense end endings eyes-wide-open hope hopelessness keep-going-keep-your-eyes-open ladder suicide

Haruki Murakami

e737f9a

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

20th-century-literature bliss certainty cynicism czech-literature death death-and-dying endings gallows-humor gifts sleep

Milan Kundera

d138372

Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

beginnings-and-endings endings pain regret

Robin Hobb

b8b6f60

"I have a story to tell you. It has many beginnings, and perhaps one ending. Perhaps not. Beginnings and endings are contingent things anyway; inventions, devices. Where does any story really begin? There is always context, always an encompassingly greater epic, always something before the described events, unless we are to start every story with "BANG! Expand! Sssss...," then itemize the whole subsequent history of the universe before settling down, at last, to the particular tale in question. Similarly, no ending is final, unless it is the end of all things..."

contexxt ending endings stories

Iain M. Banks

17892b5

All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

dreams endings happiness happy-ending stories

Neil Gaiman

102b765

" ,' Dad said, 'has the sort of ellipsis ending most American audiences would rather undergo a root canal than be left with, not only because they loathe anything left to the imagination-we're talking about the country that invented spandex-but also because they are a confident, self-assured nation. They Family. They Right from Wrong. They know God-many of them attest to daily chats with the man. And the idea that none of us can truly know anything at all-not the lives of our friends or family, not even ourselves-is a thought they'd rather be shot in the arm with their own semi-automatic rifle than face head-on. Personally, I think there's something terrific about not knowing, relinquishing man's feeble attempt to control. When you throw up your hands, say, "Who knows?" you can get on with the sheer gift of being alive." --

ambiguity ambiguous-ending america americans control endings family foreign-film god right-and-wrong

Marisha Pessl

5d07f5c

I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them, streams in the desert.

beginnings endings inspirational triumph

Bryce Courtenay

6aad532

Resist change at your own peril, Vivian. When something ends, let it end.

elizabeth-gilbert-quotes endings let-it-be let-it-go quotes-about-change resistance-to-change

Elizabeth Gilbert

59d1f9f

Those of the Elven-race that lived still in Middle-earth waned and faded, and Men usurped the sunlight. Then the Quendi wandered in the lonely places of the great lands and the isles, and took to the moonlight and the starlight, and to the woods and caves, becoming as shadows and memories, save those who ever and anon set sail into the West and vanished from Middle-earth.

endings fading first-age middle-earth quendi tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien

e66f134

Just cuz you get to the end doesn't mean you know what happened.

ending endings karen-tei-yamashita learning stories tropic-of-orange understanding what-happened

Karen Tei Yamashita

a9a470f

It ended sadly. The kind of ending where you wait together, holding hands and weeping, while off in another room, love slowly dies.

endings love love-hurts love-quotes

Abigail Thomas

411f95e

For example--I wonder--could you tell my jumbled story in exactly one hundred chapters, not one more, not one less? I'll tell you, that's one thing I hate about my nickname, the way that number runs on forever. It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.

endings pi

Yann Martel

11bea1a

Of the two thousand original copies printed of The History of Love, some were bought and read, many were bought and not read, some were given as gifts, some sat fading in bookstore windows serving as landing docks for flies, some were marked up with pencil, and a good many were shredded to pulp along with other unread or unwanted books, their sentences parsed and minced in the machine's spinning blades.

books-without-homes endings

Nicole Krauss