“Do you even believe in love? Or do you only have fantasy relationships because anything else would be too painful?”
– I Heart Huckabees, dir. David O. Russel (2004)
“Do you even believe in love? Or do you only have fantasy relationships because anything else would be too painful?”
– I Heart Huckabees, dir. David O. Russel (2004)
“In a perfect place, where the noise did not intrude, our world was so very complete.”
– Candy, dir. Neil Armfield (2006)
“Be deliriously happy, or at least leave yourself open to be.”
– Meet Joe Black, dir. Martin Brest (1998)
“It’s like I’m reading a book, and it’s a book I deeply love. But I’m reading it slowly now, so the words are really far apart and the spaces between the words are almost infinite. I can still feel you, and the words of our story, but it’s in this endless space between the words that I’m finding myself now. It’s a place that’s not of the physical world, it’s where everything else is that I didn’t even know existed. I love you so much. But this is where I am now. And this is who I am now. And I need you to let me go. As much as I want to, I can’t live in your book anymore.”
– Her, dir. Spike Jonze (2013)
“A wondrous, subtle thing is love, for here were we two, who had never seen each other before that day, between whom no word or even look of affection had ever passed, and yet now in an hour of trouble, our hands instinctively sought for each other. I have marveled at it since, but at the time it seemed the most natural thing that I should go out to her, and, as she has often told me, there was in her the instinct to turn to me for comfort and protection. So we stood hand in hand like two children, and there was peace in our hearts for all the dark things that surrounded us.”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume 1
“You do care. You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
– J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
“There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can’t fix it you’ve got to stand it.”
– Annie Proulx, “Brokeback Mountain”
“Memories, so sweet and so bitter… they had both nourished and devoured him for so many years. Until a time came when they began to fade, turning faint and blurred, only an ache to be quickly pushed away because it went to your heart. For what was the use of remembering all you had lost?”
– Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
“Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.”
– Dan Brown, Angels and Demons