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Everything has an end.

Everything comes to an end.

A good thing never ends.

Endings are really hard to do, and it's hard to do an ending where it's sort of collaborative with thousands and thousands of people, and to satisfy all those people is impossible.

You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph.

The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.

The most terrible things end, at last.