“Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.”
Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist
Source: Romancing Mister Bridgerton
“If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.”
Our Mrs Parker (1934)
Source: While Rome Burns
Context: And there was that wholesale libel on a Yale prom. If all the girls attending it were laid end to end, Mrs Parker said, she wouldn't be at all surprised.
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“The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.”
Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer
Source: Someone Like You
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
where there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic vote, no bloc voting of any kind — and where Catholics, Protestants and Jews, at both the lay and pastoral level, will refrain from those attitudes of disdain and division which have so often marred their works in the past, and promote instead the American ideal of brotherhood.
1960, Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
Johannes Grenzfurthner (1975) Austrian artist, writer, curator, and theatre and film director
from documentary Traceroute
“The ending is always a surprise.”
Daniel Wallace book Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions
Source: Big Fish
Chamberlin's @DarkOptimism account (2018) https://twitter.com/DarkOptimism/status/1071438457606680576
Qasem Soleimani (1957–2020) Iranian senior military officer
Quoted in Dexter Filkins (30 September 2013). "The Shadow Commander" http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/09/30/130930fa_fact_filkins?currentPage=all. The New Yorker.