“Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap,” Joel Barish had to say this about Valentine’s Day in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. A lot many of us agree with Joel, at least at some point in our lives.
While the hype around February 14 can be exasperating, cynicism as well is somewhat off-putting; if you don’t want to celebrate, you can let the day pass peacefully, without giving in to the demands of a consumerist society.
“I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss of her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. One.”
City of Angels
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.”
Casablanca
“Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? You loved me. And what right had you to leave me? The poor fancy you felt for Linton? Nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us. You of your own will did it. I’ve not broken your heart Cathy, you have broken it. And in breaking it, you’ve broken mine.”
Wuthering Heights
“That night I fell in love with a voice. Only a voice. I wanted to hear nothing more.”
The English Patient
"Rhett, don’t. I shall faint.”
"I want you to faint. This is what you were meant for. None of the fools you’ve ever known have kissed you like this, have they? Your Charles, or your Frank, or your stupid Ashley.”
Gone with the Wind
Allie: “Why didn’t you write me? Why? It wasn’t over for me, I waited for you for seven years. But now it’s too late.”
Noah: “I wrote you 365 letters. I wrote you everyday for a year.”
Allie: “You wrote me?”
Noah: “Yes… it wasn’t over, it still isn’t over.”
The Notebook
Mark Darcy: “I like you, very much.”
Bridget: “Ah, apart from the smoking and the drinking, the vulgar mother and… ah, the verbal diarrhea.”
Mark Darcy: “No, I like you very much. Just as you are.”
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Jenny: “You don’t know about falling off cliffs, Preppie. You never fell off one in your goddamn life.
Oliver: Yeah. When I met you.”
Love Story
"And don’t forget. I’m also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.”
Notting Hill
“Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.”
Atonement
Anya:"I have to leave you now. I’m going to that corner there and turn. You must stay in the car and drive away. Promise not to watch me go beyond the corner. Just drive away and leave me as I leave you. I don’t know how to say goodbye. I can’t think of any words.”
Joe Bradley: “Don’t try.”
Roman Holiday
Holly: :” I’ll never let anybody put me in a cage.”
Paul: “I don’t want to put you in a cage, I want to love you”
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Tom: “I need to know that you’re not gonna wake up in the morning and feel differently.”
Summer: “And I can’t give you that. Nobody can.”
500 Days of Summer
While the hype around February 14 can be exasperating, cynicism as well is somewhat off-putting; if you don’t want to celebrate, you can let the day pass peacefully, without giving in to the demands of a consumerist society.
“I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss of her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. One.”
City of Angels
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.”
Casablanca
“Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? You loved me. And what right had you to leave me? The poor fancy you felt for Linton? Nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us. You of your own will did it. I’ve not broken your heart Cathy, you have broken it. And in breaking it, you’ve broken mine.”
Wuthering Heights
“That night I fell in love with a voice. Only a voice. I wanted to hear nothing more.”
The English Patient
"Rhett, don’t. I shall faint.”
"I want you to faint. This is what you were meant for. None of the fools you’ve ever known have kissed you like this, have they? Your Charles, or your Frank, or your stupid Ashley.”
Gone with the Wind
Allie: “Why didn’t you write me? Why? It wasn’t over for me, I waited for you for seven years. But now it’s too late.”
Noah: “I wrote you 365 letters. I wrote you everyday for a year.”
Allie: “You wrote me?”
Noah: “Yes… it wasn’t over, it still isn’t over.”
The Notebook
Mark Darcy: “I like you, very much.”
Bridget: “Ah, apart from the smoking and the drinking, the vulgar mother and… ah, the verbal diarrhea.”
Mark Darcy: “No, I like you very much. Just as you are.”
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Jenny: “You don’t know about falling off cliffs, Preppie. You never fell off one in your goddamn life.
Oliver: Yeah. When I met you.”
Love Story
"And don’t forget. I’m also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.”
Notting Hill
“Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.”
Atonement
Anya:"I have to leave you now. I’m going to that corner there and turn. You must stay in the car and drive away. Promise not to watch me go beyond the corner. Just drive away and leave me as I leave you. I don’t know how to say goodbye. I can’t think of any words.”
Joe Bradley: “Don’t try.”
Roman Holiday
Holly: :” I’ll never let anybody put me in a cage.”
Paul: “I don’t want to put you in a cage, I want to love you”
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Tom: “I need to know that you’re not gonna wake up in the morning and feel differently.”
Summer: “And I can’t give you that. Nobody can.”
500 Days of Summer
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