The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.

There’s nothing on Earth like really nailing the last line of a big book. You have 200 pages to tickle their fancy, and seven words to break their heart.

Build your life on your dreams; because dreams never have bad endings.

Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.

The best endings resonate because they echo a word, phrase, or image from earlier in the story, and the reader is prompted to think back to that reference and speculate on a deeper meaning.

L’Avventura,’ Dad said, ‘has the sort of ellipsis ending most American audiences would rather undergo a root canal than be left with, not only because they loathe anything left to the imagination-we’re talking about the...

Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh...

He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.

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...

With us, there were always too many false starts. I believe that what’s meant to be usually has a way of working out… and with us, it never did. Call it timing, call it fate,...

We must be conscious of this; one day, the life we have, will be gone.

There were never going to be any happy ending for me. I know that now. But that is all right. That is all right.

In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

Jason knew his life would never be the same again. British intelligence now had an ace up their sleeve, and Jason had to overcome his fears and deal with the secret world he was now...

But there was a fire waiting. And there was a little meal laid out on a blanket. And there was a whole world beyond that shoreline, beyond the forest, beyond the knuckle mountains, beyond, beyond,...

Khattam-Shud,’ he said slowly, ‘is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life...

Then he lets go and walks down the path, without another word. He doesn’t look back. But I watch him go. I watch him all the way home.

You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss.

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Can’t say I’ve ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending anytime. You know where you are with an ending.

Beat you to the top of the mountain”, followed by the funnest sprint of both of your lives.

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

The fearthat all thiswill end.The fearthat it won’t.

Even though their marriage had been dead for over two years (her words, not mine), this put her in the role of the innocent. She was now a woman scorned. ~Shattered Reality

A true love story has no endings.

Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

As they walked away, hand in hand, they vowed to be together forever, not knowing that forever always ended.

I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning.There are things I need to tell you, but would you listen if I told you how quickly time passes?I...

The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air.It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.Its clear tones resound in the...

It’s possible to find order in chaos, and it’s equally possible to find chaos underlying apparent order. Order and chaos are slippery concepts. They’re like a set of twins who like to swap clothing from...

What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.

No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new...

The end never comes when you think it will. It’s always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.

The splendid thingabout falling apartsilently…is thatyou can start overas many timesas you like.

Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.

October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings...

It’s a lot easier to say when something ended rather than when it began. Most of us can recognize the end from a mile away, but the beginning always slips up on us, lulling us...

The anxiety, which in this state of their attachment must be the portion of Henry and Catherine, and of all who loved either, as to its final event, can hardly extend, I fear, to the...

He got up and ran on, pitching himself down the hill, flying through the branches of the firs, leaping roots and rocks without seeing them. As he went, the hill got steeper and steeper, until...

Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin. And there are many things that don’t really end, anyway, they just begin again in a new way. Ends are...

As I witness the dead of beloved ones, it makes be become more conscious that life indeed has an end.

Well, everything comes to an end, sooner or later,” she said. “Everything begins and ends. Everything changes.

Have you thought of an ending?””Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant.””Oh, that won’t do! Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily...

When a country is defeated, there remain only mountains and rivers, and on a ruined castle in spring only grasses thrive. I sat down on my hat and wept bitterly till I almost forgot time.A...

All’s well that ends well.”Assuming there’s an end somewhere,’ Aomame said.Tamaru formed some short creases near his mouth that were faintly reminiscent of a smile. ‘There has to be an end somewhere. It’s just that...

What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, ‘They lived happily ever after,’ and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living,...

I guess I just don’t get the point. It’s like, why should you bother getting attached to anything if,A: It’s never gonna last, andB: It hurts like hell when it’s over?

We are formed by dust, when life ends, we shall we return as dust to the ground.

In the planning stage of a book, don’t plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.