“But answer me this: how can a story end happily if there is no love?”

“I love stories with a happy ending,” Inspector Me said.”

“I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much”

“If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness
Maybe not, oh, but we can only try.”

“Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?”

“Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.”

“Tell me a story, Pew.
What kind of story, child?
A story with a happy ending.
There's no such thing in all the world.
As a happy ending?
As an ending.”

“That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.”

“You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't. Trust me, I was there. I know.”

“The romance genre was all around us. There was love story pulps, and there was love story sections in the newspapers. There was love stories in the movies. Wherever you went there was love stories! That’s how we got our new material, and it suddenly struck me that that’s what we haven’t done. We haven’t done any romance stories!”