“That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.”

“And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after.”

“Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.”

“Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.”

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”

“Is not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It's the fact that I live happily ever after.”

“The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.”

“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”

“What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.”

“Like all fairy tales, the story of Sleeping Beauty begins with "Once upon a time," and continues with a foolish young princess who makes a witch very angry, and then takes a nap until her boyfriend wakes her up with a kiss and insists on getting married, at which point the story ends with the phrase "happily ever after."”