Do I dare disturb the universe?

‎”Love is not only a feeling, love is a beauty. To commit yourself is to run the risk of failure, the risk of betrayal. But the man who makes a mistake can repent. You fear your love has died, it perhaps is waiting to be transformed into something higher. Awaken the love that sleeps in each man and woman. Know each other in that love that never changes.

To the Wonder trailer, written and directed by Terrence Malick

Everybody loses the thing that made them. It’s even how it’s supposed to be in nature. The brave men stay and watch it happen, they don’t run.

Hushpuppy, Beasts of the Southern Wild

For the animals that didn’t have a dad to put them in a boat, the end of the world already happened. They’re all down below, trying to breathe water.

Hushpuppy, Beasts of the Southern Wild

All the time, everywhere, everything’s hearts are beating and squirting, and talking to each other the ways I can’t understand. Most of the time they probably be saying: I’m hungry, or I gotta poop. [listening to bird’s heartbeat] But sometimes they be talkin’ in codes.

Hushpuppy, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Hushpuppy: You gonna be dead?
Wink: No.
Hushpuppy: You gonna leave me alone?
Wink: No, I ain't gonna leave you alone.
Hushpuppy: Cause if you be gone, I be gone too.
Wink: No, that's not how it work.

You are consumed with what you try to hide.

Theramenes, Phedre

‎Oh Madam, do reject such needless fear.
Look with an easier eye on your mistake.
You love. We cannot conquer destiny.
You were drawn on by fatal charm. Is that
something unheard of? Do you think that Love
has triumphed over you, and you alone?
Frailty is only natural to us
poor human beings. You are mortal,so
to a poor mortal’s lot submit. You fight
against a fate imposed since time began.
The Gods themselves, even the Olympian Gods
who with so great a noise reprove our crimes,
have sometimes burned with these forbidden fires.

Phèdre

Oh Linus.

Sabrina: Suppose you meet someone on the boat, the very first day out? A perfect stranger.
Linus: I have a better suppose, Sabrina. Suppose I were ten years younger. Suppose you weren't in love with David. Suppose I asked you to... I suppose I'm just talking nonsense.
Sabrina: I suppose so.

Listen. This is the best feeling known to man. (rubs her paint brush into her paint.) I just made a new color. (pause) Oh painting, why did I leave you? I’ve been such a bad spouse.

Emily Wilson

I don’t know if I’ve come of age, but I’m certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there’s a tiny ancient Oliver Tate inside me operating the levers of a life-size Oliver-shaped shell. A shell on which a decrepit picture show replays the same handful of images. Every night I come to the same place and wait till the sky catches up with my mood. The pattern is set. This is, no doubt, the end.

Oliver Tate, Submarine

Submarine quotes

Oliver Tate: Ask me how deep the ocean is.
Jordana Bevan: Shut up.
Oliver Tate: Come on, just ask me.
Jordana Bevan: Why?
Oliver Tate: 'Cause I know the answer.
Jordana Bevan: Oh! Do you?
Oliver Tate: Yes, I do.
Jordana Bevan: How deep is the ocean?
Oliver Tate: I'm not gonna say.
Jordana Bevan: I'm brokenhearted.
Oliver Tate: The ocean is six miles deep.
Jordana Bevan: Good.

I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn’t the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.

The Hours

Quotes from The Hours

Angelica Bell: What happens when we die?
Virginia Woolf: What happens?
[pause]
Virginia Woolf: We return to the place that we came from.
Angelica Bell: I don't remember where I came from.
Virginia Woolf: Nor do I.

…the sea’s only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong. Now, I don’t know much about the sea, but I do know that that’s the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions, facing blind, deaf stone alone, with nothing to help you but your own hands and your own head…

Primo Levi

30 Romantic Movie Quotes (just in time for Valentine’s Day)

I didn’t assemble this compilation, just found it here: http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2010/05/25_most_romantic_movie_quotes.php

1. “So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard. We’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? 30 years from now, 40 years from now? What’s it look like? If it’s with him, go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again. If I thought that’s what you really wanted. But don’t you take the easy way out.” -The Notebook.

2. “I love you. You’re my only reason to stay alive… if that’s what I am.” -Twilight New Moon.

3. “Me? I’m scared of everything. I’m scared of what I saw, I’m scared of what I did, of who I am, and most of all I’m scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I’m with you.” -Dirty Dancing

4.“…I might be the only one who appreciates how amazing you are in every single thing that you do, and … I watch them, wondering how they can watch you bring their food, and clear their tables and never get that they just met the greatest woman alive. And the fact that I get it makes me feel good, about me.” -As Good as It Gets

5.“Ehm, look. Sorry, sorry. I just, ehm, well, this is a very stupid question and… particularly in view of our recent shopping excursion, but I just wondered, by any chance, ehm, eh, I mean obviously not because I guess I’ve only slept with 9 people, but-but I-I just wondered… ehh. I really feel, ehh, in short, to recap it slightly in a clearer version, eh, the words of David Cassidy in fact, eh, while he was still with the Partridge family, eh, “I think I love you,” and eh, I… I just wondered by any chance you wouldn’t like to… Eh… Eh… No, no, no of course not… I’m an idiot, he’s not… Excellent, excellent, fantastic, eh, I was gonna say lovely to see you, sorry to disturb… Better get on…” -Four Weddings and a Funeral

6.“But soft; what light through yonder window breaks? It is my lady! O, it is my love. O that she knew she were.” -Romeo and Juliet

7.“Listen to me, mister. You’re my knight in shining armor. Don’t forget it.” -On Golden Pond

8.“But for now, let me say — without hope or agenda, just because it’s Christmas and at Christmas you tell the truth — to me, you are perfect. And my wasted heart will love you. Until you look like this [picture of a mummy]. Merry Christmas.” -Love Actually

9. “Don’t forget I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” -Notting Hill

10. “What I really want to do with my life — what I want to do for a living — is I want to be with your daughter. I’m good at it.” -Say Anything

11.“I’m very discreet but… I will haunt your dreams.” -40 Year Old Virgin

12.“Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me… it brought me to you … You must do me this honor, Rose. Promise me you’ll survive. That you won’t give up, no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless. Promise me now, Rose, and never let go of that promise.” -Titanic

13.“…You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you.” -Last of the Mohicans

14.“No, I don’t think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That’s what’s wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.” -Gone with the Wind

15.“I thought we would meet only in death.” -Slumdog Millionaire

16.”“Well, I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman’s back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.” -Bull Durham

17.“As you wish.” -Princess Bride

18.“Love is too weak a word for what I feel — I luuurve you, you know, I loave you, I luff you, two F’s, yes I have to invent, of course I do, don’t you think I do?”-Annie Hall

19.“I love that you get cold when it’s 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle in your nose when you’re looking at me like I’m nuts. I love that after I spend day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it’s not because I’m lonely, and it’s not because it’s New Year’s Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” -When Harry Met Sally

20. “It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together … and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home. .. only to no home I’d ever known … I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like … magic.” -Sleepless in Seattle

21. “…If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love … I love … I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.” -Pride and Prejudice

22.“Here’s looking at you, kid.” -Casablanca

23.“Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” -Love Story

24. “You had me at hello.” -Jerry Maguire

25. “I wish I knew how to quit you!” -Brokeback Mountain

26. “My heart is, and always will be, yours.” -Sense and Sensibilty

27. “Oh, it’s nobody’s fault but my own! I was looking up… it was the nearest thing to heaven! You were there…” -An Affair to Remember

28. “Miss Kubelik, one doesn’t get to be a second administrative assistant around here unless he’s a pretty good judge of character, and as far as I’m concerned you’re tops. I mean, decency-wise and otherwise-wise.” -The Apartment

29. “You like boats, but not the ocean. You go to a lake in the summer with your family up in the mountains. There’s a long wooden dock and a boathouse with boards missing from the roof, and a place you used to crawl underneath to be alone. You’re a sucker for French poetry and rhinestones. You’re very generous. You’re kind to strangers and children, and when you stand in the snow you look like an angel.” -Groundhog Day

30.“It’s like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there’s this kind of recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person’s gone, and it’s too late to do anything about it.” -Out of Sight