“Poor happy endings. They're so aggressively misunderstood. We act like "and they lived happily ever after" is trying to con us into thinking that nothing bad ever happened to anyone ever again.

But that's never the way I read those words. I read them as "and they built a life together, and looked after each other, and made the absolute best of their lives."

That's possible right?

That's not ridiculous.

Tragedy is a given. There is no version of human life that doesn't involve reams of it.

The question is what we do in the face of it all.”