Heartbeats

Gwen: Come in, I've been expecting you

There's a knock on the door and love walks through

And lights a fire and smiles a smile

As if love were going to stay a while

And the fire breathes and weaves its spell

But then love runs out of lies to tell

For love is restless, love's a flirt

Love has places to go and people to hurt

So here's the shovel to smother the flame

Tomorrow you'll barely remember my name

And I'll try to forget you, my dearest one

As a prisoner tries to forget the sun

For life holds no purpose, and love holds no charms

Since I beheld you in another's arms.

Til There Was You (1997)

There Are Still a Few Men Who Love Desperately (4)

Valmont: I want you somehow...somehow...

to get to see Madame de Tourvel.

I understand she is very ill.

That is why this is most important to me.

I want you to tell her that I cannot explain why I broke with her as I did.

But that since then, my life has been worth nothing.

I pushed the blade in deeper than you just have my boy...

and now I need you to help me withdraw it.

Tell her it is lucky for her that I have gone...

and I am glad not to have to live without her.

Tell her, her love was the only real happiness that I have ever known.

Will you do that for me?

Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

Strength

Some of us think holding on makes us strong;

but sometimes it is letting go.

Hermann Hesse

 

 Game of Thrones

Perspectives

Larry: I'm trying very hard not to judge you.

Ben: Me? You murdered your entire family!

Larry: Yes. But I was never unfaithful.

American Horror Story (2011)

Lesson 5: How to Surrender

Lay it down, child

And walk into this room

All made with love for you.

 Ed Kowalczyk & Neneh Cherry - Walk into this Room

Playing by Heart (1998)

Damaged People (10)

Mr. Reese: In the end we're all alone

and no one is coming to save you.

Person of Interest (2011)

Like a Child. Again.

Karma is a Bitch

The funny thing about revenge
is that most of the times

when it finally strikes

you don’t really care anymore.

Gone with the Wind (1939)

Stuff We Leave Behind (2)

The Eternal Sunshine

Clementine: I wish you had stayed.

Joe: I wish I had stayed too.

Now I wish I had stayed.

I wish I had done a lot of things.

I wish I had... I wish I had stayed. I do.

Clementine: Well, I came back downstairs and you were gone!

Joel: I walked out, I walked out the door!

Clementine: Why?

Joel: I don't know. I felt like I was a scared little kid,

I was like... it was above my head, I don't know.

Clementine: You were scared?

Joel: Yeah. I thought you knew that about me.

I ran back to the bonfire, trying to outrun my humiliation.

Clementine: Was it something I said?

Joel: Yeah, you said "so go".

The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

You Be Strong

Hawkeye: You be strong, you survive...

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.

The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

After All This Time

Da una lacrima sul viso

Ho capito molte cose

Dopo tanti, tanti mesi ora so

Cosa sono per te

Uno sguardo ed un sorriso

M'han svelato il tuo segreto

Che sei stata innamorata di me

Ed ancora lo sei

Non ho mai capito, non sapevo che

Che tu, che tu, tu mi amavi ma

Come me, non trovavi mai

Il coraggio di dirlo, ma poi...

Quella lacrima sul viso

É un miracolo d'amore

Che si avvera in questo istante per me

E non amo che te

Bobby Solo - Una Lacrima Sul Viso

Somewhere Only We Know

Briony: So, my sister and Robbie were never able to have

the time together they both so longed for... and deserved.

But what sense of hope or satisfaction

could a reader derive from an ending like that?

So in the book, I wanted to give Robbie and Cecilia

what they lost out on in life.

I'd like to think this isn't weakness or... evasion...

but a final act of kindness. I gave them their happiness.

Atonement (2007)

Lesson 4: How To Protect Yourself

"Don't hug me this way, don't touch me this way
Don't hug me again, don't hug me again"

Moby - Mistake

Lesson 3: How To Deal With Nostalgia

"I go to sleep and imagine that you're there

with me."

Sia - I Go To Sleep

Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman

are two separate passions,

not merely different but opposite.

Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation

(a desire that extends to an infinite number of women)

but in the desire for shared sleep

(a desire limited to one woman).
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Hysteria Siberiana

Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana?
Try to imagine this:

You're a farmer, living all alone on the Siberian tundra.

Day after day you plow your fields.
As far as the eye can see, nothing.

To the north, the horizon, to the east, the horizon,
to the south, to the west, more of the same.
Every morning, when the sun rises in the east, you go out to work in your fields.

When it's directly overhead, you take a break for lunch.

When it sinks in the west, you go home to sleep.

And then one day, something inside you dies.

Day after day you watch the sun rise in the east, pass across the sky,

then sink in the west, and something breaks inside you and dies.

You toss your plow aside and, your head completely empty of thought,

begin walking toward the west.

Heading toward a land that lies west of the sun.

Like someone, possessed, you walk on, day after day,

not eating or drinking, until you collapse on the ground and die.
hat's hysteria siberiana.

Haruki Murakami – South of the Border, West of the Sun

We Are Who We Are

Bill: Clark Kent is how Superman views us.

And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent.

He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward.

Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.

Sorta like Beatrix Kiddo and Mrs. Tommy Plimpton.

I'm calling you a killer. A natural born killer.

You always have been, and you always will be.

Moving to El Paso, working in a used record store,

goin' to the movies with Tommy, clipping coupons.

That's you, trying to disguise yourself as a worker bee.

That's you tryin' to blend in with the hive.

But you're not a worker bee. You're a renegade killer bee.

And no matter how much beer you drank or barbecue you ate

or how fat your ass got, nothing in the world would ever change that.

Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)

Let Me Sing You A Waltz

Celine: I always feel like a freak because I’m never able to move on like… this, you know? People just have an affair, or even entire relationships.They break up and they forget. They move on like they would have changed brand of cereals. I feel I was never able to forget anyone I’ve been with.

Because each person had their own specific qualities. You can never replace anyone. What is lost is lost. Each relationship, when it ends, really damages me. I never fully recover. That’s why I’m very careful with getting involved, because it hurts too much! Even getting laid, I actually don’t do that… I will miss of the person the most mundane things. Like I’m obsessed with little things. Maybe I’m crazy but… when I was a little girl, my mom told me that I was always late for school. One day she followed me to see why… I was looking at chestnuts falling from the trees rolling on the sidewalk, or ants crossing the road… the way a leaf cast a shadow on a tree trunk… little things. I think it’s the same with people. I see in them little details, so specific to each of them, that move me, and that I miss, and… will always miss. You can never replace anyone, because everyone is made of such beautiful specific details. Like I remember the way… your beard has a bit of red in it. And how the sun was making it glow… that morning, right before you left. I remember that, and… I missed it. I’m really crazy, right?

Before Sunset (2004)

Remarried

Will: You ever think about gettin' remarried?

Sean: My wife's dead.

Will: Hence the word: remarried.

Sean: She's dead.

Will: Yeah; well, I think that's a super philosophy, Sean. I mean, that way you could actually go through the rest of your life without ever really knowing anybody.

Good Will Hunting (1997)

illusions

Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda…

and awakened with me.

Rita Hayworth

Kiss Quick, I've got a line out the door
Who all think they can save me.
One by one they lay the world at my feet.
One by one they go away.
Matt Nathanson - Kiss Quick

If I Lay Here

If I just lay here,

would you lie with me and

just forget the world?

Lesson 2: How to know you love somebody

"You only know you love her when you let her go,

and you let her go."
Passenger - Let Her Go

He's Just Not That Into You (2009)

Lesson 1: How to fight loneliness

"Just smile all the time."

Wilco - How To Fight Loneliness

Damaged People (9)

Watson: I notice you don't have any mirrors around here.

Holmes: What is that supposed to mean?
Watson: That you know a lost cause when you see one.

Elementary (2013)

The Greatest

"Once I wanted to be the greatest..."

Cat Power - The Greatest

A long time ago.

Requiem For a Love

Marion: I love you, Harry. You make me feel like a person.

Like I'm me... and I'm beautiful.

Harry: You are beautiful.

You're the most beautiful girl in the world.

You are my dream.

Requiem For a Dream (2000)

Regrets

Earl: I'll tell you the greatest regret of my life:

I let my love go.

(Magnolia, 1999)

Plans

James: What are you doing two weeks on Saturday?

Helen: Probably killing myself.

James: Excellent. What time does that finish? Do you like boats?

Sliding Doors (1998)

Faith

Just like that.

Lost In Translation

Lösch mir die Augen aus: ich kann dich sehn,
wirf mir die Ohren zu: ich kann dich hören,
und ohne Füße kann ich zu dir gehen,
und ohne Mund noch kann ich dich beschwören.
Brich mir die Arme ab, ich fasse dich
mit meinem Herzen wie mit einer Hand,
halt mir das Herz zu, und mein Hirn wird schlagen,
und wirfst du in mein Hirn den Brand,
so werd ich dich auf meinem Blute tragen.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Times

Times are hard for dreamers.

Amélie (2001)

Honesty

Larry: That’s the spirit. Thank you.

Thank you for your honesty.

Now fuck off and die, you fucked up slag.
Closer (2004)

In The End

"Let it go. It's no use.

This is one thing I've learned about life:

you'll never end up with the one you love.

R. L., Porto, February 2012, 4 am.

***

Sarah: Love doesn't end, just because we don't see each other.

Maurice: Doesn't it?

Sarah:People go on loving God, don't they? All their lives. Without seeing him.

Maurice:That's not my kind of love.

Sarah:Maybe there is no other kind.

The End of the Affair (1999)

Garbage

Love is everywhere.

That’s why it is so simple.

You only have to wait and let the garbage pass by.

 Lisbon, 11.15pm



Soundtracks: Pain

Some old wounds never truly heal,

and bleed again at the slightest chord.

 

Touch

We're always behind this metal and glass.

I think we miss that touch so much,

that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.Crash (2004)

 

 

 

 

Soundtracks: Humiliation

The embarrassment after the anger

is the biggest humiliation a person can experience.

Marilyn Monroe

Just a Girl

Women might be able to fake orgasms,

but men can fake whole relationships.

Sharon Stone

 

 

Hopeless Places (3)

To be creatures who love,

we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose,

and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

Andrew Solomon

Valentine's day

So many single people in love,

So many couples pretending to love each other.

Portuguese Do It Better

Era um amor à Romeu,

vindo de repente numa troca de olhares fatal e deslumbradora,

uma dessas paixões que assaltam uma existência,

a assolam como um furacão,

arrancando a vontade, a razão,

os respeitos humanos

e empurrando-os de roldão aos abismos.

Eça de Queirós – Os Maias

Choices (3)

You are doomed to make choices.

This is life's greatest paradox.

Wayne Dyer