“The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending--the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.”
“- the only difference between a happy ending and a sad ending is where you decide the story ends.”
“And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.”
“I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life.”
“Sadness is not the beginning or end of a process, but the lag between pleasure and happiness.”
“... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.”