Hate

As long as you hold on to so much hate,

then I don’t think you’re ever going to become

what I know you want to become.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

Some Other Life

David Jones

Pain

There are two kinds of pain in this world:

pain that hurts, and pain that alters.

The Equalizer 2 (2018)

Why

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born

and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

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)

Strength

Some of us think holding on makes us strong;

but sometimes it is letting go.

Hermann Hesse

 

 Game of Thrones

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

 

 

 

 

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

Hopeless Places (2)

Kate: Every time she smiles, remember that I love you more.

The Wings of the Dove

Memories

"Memories are like bullets.

Some whiz by and only spook you.

Others tear you open and leave you in pieces"

Nights in white satin, never reaching the end,
Letters I've written, never meaning to send.
Beauty I'd always missed with these eyes before.
Just what the truth is, I can't say anymore.
(...)

Gazing at people, some hand in hand,
Just what I'm going through they can't understand.
Some try to tell me, thoughts they cannot defend,
Just what you want to be, you will be in the end.

Moody Blues “Nights in White Satin”

Hopeless Places

Susannah: I still sometimes dream that I'm the mother of your children.

Legends of the Fall