“He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.”

“But in real life, happily-ever-after is just the beginning. It's where life starts.”

“How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it?”

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

“People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away?"
I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.”

“Did they live happily ever after?
HAHAHAHAHA. No.”

“The village is a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is Number Six and will live there happily as Number Six for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.”

“A youth would marry a maiden,
For fair and fond was she;
But he was high and she was low,
And so it might not be.”

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

“It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis.”