#endings

We're not going to make it," I said. The words caught in my throat, choking me. What was it Leslie had said to me when we were discussing Shannon's and Antoinetta's disappearance? 'You're beginning to sound like one of the characters in your books, Adam.' She'd been right. If this were a novel my heroes would have arrived just in the nick of time and saved the day. But real life didn't work like that. Real life had no happy endings. Despite our best efforts, despite my love for Tara [his wife] and my determination to protect her, and after everything we'd been through at the LeHorn house, fate conspired against us. We were still nine or ten miles from home, and night was almost upon us. By the time we got there it would already be too late. I fought back tears. I had the urge just to lie down in the middle of the road and let the next car run over me. ↗

— Brian Keene

#grief #real-life-endings #home

...and in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#endings #life #life

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#endings #excellent #express #happy #joint

Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending. ↗

— Carl Bard

#endings #inspirational #new-start #inspirational

Let me give my love to you. Let me take your hand. And as we walk in the dimming light Oh darling understand That everything ends... ↗

— Death Cab for Cutie

#death

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#knowing #life #novel #people #worth

It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#moving-forward #life

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#happy-endings #writing #story

I know you’re just a rag doll now, sewn together with memories that we might have had. I know you’re just the dream inside of a dream And don’t worry, I know I don’t know you, anymore. ↗

— pleasefindthis

#endings #forgetting #forgetting-the-past #love #memories

You were the one who taught me," he said. "I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together, or without sorrow for its spoiling. I became a hero to serve you, and all that is like you. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#heroes #sorrow