“It was a light, brief kiss, but it was less an ending than a promise, and he was happy.”
Larry Niven book Dream Park
Source: Dream Park (1981), Chapter 31, “Departures” (p. 429)
“There are, of course, good happy endings as well as bad ones, but surely they are of a kind that in some way expresses happiness rather than glibly promises it.”
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The Cart and the Horse (1964)
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