A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.

My father once told me that a happy ending is just the place where you choose to stop telling the story. So this is where I choose to stop. More things are still going to happen, of course, some good, some bad. Some things never get any better. When people die they stay dead. None of us knows why we love, or why we stop loving, or why everyone we love we lose.

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it.

To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.

A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.