They always want to leave it at happily-ever-after.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

All this idealistic happily-ever-after was a crock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gabriel Hawk's Lady]

And yet she no longer believed in happily-ever-after.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slightly Dangerous]

"I'm writing that we go on to live happily-ever-after.".    From Wordnik.com.  [What Dreams May Come]

It's the true signature of a happily-ever-after marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cynthia Kling: Interview with Susan Squire, author of I Don't: A Contrarian History of Marriage] Reference

She wanted a happily-ever-after that she could never have.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot And Bothered]

Every now and then, it really could be happily-ever-after.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-02-01] Reference

They could just as easily have given a happily-ever-after.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stress and Strain] Reference

“I would not believe in our happily-ever-after until now.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slightly Dangerous]

NUFFIN in teh hole wyde whirrlld bedder tahn happily-ever-after!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred decided - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

Or at the very least a happily-ever-after series finale come May.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Happy Ending for Luke and Lorelai? | the TV addict] Reference

Pied Piper Tom Sturges has led the children to happily-ever-after.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joanne D'Antonio: The Last Legacy of Preston Sturges] Reference

In the romance genre, the only thing to add is the happily-ever-after.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Fiction Writing Week: Creating a Plot] Reference

Very real life, and not some fairy-tale, happily-ever-after conclusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

In any event, there would be no happily-ever-after ending to this story.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Witness]

This happily-ever-after ending is made possible by a single important event.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision] Reference

The idea that there was such a thing as a happily-ever-after has been demolished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natalie Portman, Hugh Hefner, and the wait for marriage] Reference

I also appreciated the fact that you gave Ian a love life and a happily-ever-after.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friday Book Club: Guest Author - Jennifer Ashley: The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie] Reference

Sam kissed her again and Cass grabbed hold of her happily-ever-after with both hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angels and Outlaws]

They married and began what we all assumed would be a happily-ever-after life together.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Courage To Be Christian] Reference

He married me when I was eighteen and still naive enough to expect a happily-ever-after.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irresistible]

Oh, happily-ever-after was ruled out, in this case, at every turn from the moment they met.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stress and Strain] Reference

He is the life partner who helps her escape her bad situation and get to happily-ever-after.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joanne D'Antonio: Dealing With the Bad Stuff in Life -- a Fairy Tale Can Lend a Hand to Quentin Tarantino] Reference

Their story doesn't necessarily end with a happily-ever-after, but there's at least some hope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review: Jars of Glass] Reference

The musical still manages something like a happy ending, though not a happily-ever-after ending.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book Review: Legends from Darkwood: The Unicorn Hunters.] Reference

Onlee advyce: Resolve to mayk eech day part of a whole enchanted lyfetime of happily-ever-after!.    From Wordnik.com.  [nobbody undestands - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

Eventually, they would have resented each other and that would have blown the happily-ever-after.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

I've had my Big Love, even if it wasn't the happily-ever-after that I probably hopefully deserved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men I Intend to Marry:] Reference

They looked as if they expected a happily-ever-after to be awaiting them after tomorrow's ceremony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irresistible]

Of course, we know that happily-ever-after never comes, so don't look for a Brady Bunch ending here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Review: Court Yard Hounds, Plus a Conversation With CYH's Emily Robison & Martie Maguire] Reference

She admires everything about it, from the cinematography to the less than happily-ever-after ending.    From Wordnik.com.  [She's Into These Films] Reference

I wanted to get as much suffering in as quickly as possible, so I could get to my happily-ever-after.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lisa Cron: The Things I Never Said: A Conversation Between Mother and Daughter] Reference

We like to go to the movies to escape, to see pretty people conflict, resolve, and live happily-ever-after.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lindsay Mannering: The Summer Blockbuster: God's Gift] Reference

“I always believed happily-ever-after could be earned through honorable deeds of heroism and derring-do.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Mistress]

The audience applauds her brave decision and she lives mostly happily-ever-after with her ogre husband, Shrek.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bonnie Fuller: Susan Boyle Deserves To Be A Swan: Stop Howling About Her Makeover!] Reference

Of course, this will take quite a while so be patient if you wanna watch a happily-ever-after. entries before this.    From Wordnik.com.  [babycartercl Diary Entry] Reference

This time she was well aware that no happily-ever-after danced merrily just beyond a proposal of marriage and its acceptance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slightly Dangerous]