“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.”

— Jeanette Winterson , book Lighthousekeeping

Source: Lighthousekeeping (2004), p. 49

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English writer 1959

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