| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b509d74 | "Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about marriage is forever happy. There are moments of bliss, to be sure, and lengthy spans of satisfied companionship. Yet these come at no small effort, and the girl who reads such fiction dreaming her troubles will end ere she departs the altar is well advised to seek at once a rational women to set her straight." | happily-ever-after humor marriage | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | |
| 4d681ec | "Happily ever after?" "If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertainment fiction, what's the point? Real life sucks too often." | happily-ever-after | Nora Roberts | |
| bfa0092 | Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after. | happily-ever-after love | Arthur Phillips | |
| 78a1213 | Tonight was a perfect illustration of why Cinderella and the Prince get married twenty-four hours after they meet. Because when you're living with your stepmother, there is no happily ever after. | happily-ever-after humor | Melissa Kantor |