“Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily..”
Source: The Reader
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Bernhard Schlink 17
German writer 1944Related quotes

“Throughout his life the memory of that happy day stayed locked secretly in (his) heart.”
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“A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story”

“The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.”
The Last Unicorn (1968)
Context: The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. … Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.

Source: Karel Appel – the complete sculptures,' (1990), p. 85 'Quotes', K. Appel (1989)
“True stories seldom have endings.
I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.”
Source: Fly by Night