“The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.”— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Related Quotes “I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.”— John Green “There are only three possible endings —aren’t there? — to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That’s it. All stories end like that.”— Jeanette Winterson “It doesn’t matter if you never see someone again, I told myself. There are millions of people in the world, and most of them never see each other in the first place. You hoped to know Ellington Feinr forever, but there’s no such thing as forever, really. Everything is much shorter than that.”— Lemony Snicket