“And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.”

“You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.”

“Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.”

“Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.”

“If life teaches anything at all it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes that there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.”

“There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.”

“May be she’ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.”