I'm on a roll! Like, a quotes roll or something. This time I'm sharing some quotes from movies and tv series that describe my relationship with Super Boy, or simply remind me of him. Bear with me, I've slept very little in the past three days and tomorrow I have my economics exam. I need to unwind a bit.
The Notebook
Noah: Would you just stay with me?
Allie: Stay with you? What for? Look at us, we're already fightin'
Noah: Well that's what we do, we fight... You tell me when I am being an arrogant son of a bitch and I tell you when you are a pain in the ass. Which you are, 99% of the time. I'm not afraid to hurt your feelings. You have like a 2 second rebound rate, then you're back doing the next pain-in-the-ass thing.
Allie: So what?
Noah: 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.
Noah: My Dearest Allie. I couldn't sleep last night because I know that it's over between us. I'm not bitter anymore, because I know that what we had was real. And if in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I'll smile at you with joy and remember how we spent the summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds, and that's what you've given me. That's what I hope to give to you forever. I love you. I'll be seeing you. Noah
Allie: Do you think our love can make miracles?
Duke: I do.
Duke: They didn't agree on much. In fact they rarely agreed on anything. They fought all the time and they challenged each other everyday...But in spite their differences, they had one important thing in common, they were crazy about each other.
Grey's Anatomy
Meredith Grey: Okay, here it is, your choice... it's simple, her or me, and I'm sure she is really great. But Derek, I love you, in a really, really big pretend to like your taste in music, let you eat the last piece of cheesecake, hold a radio over my head outside your window, unfortunate way that makes me hate you, love you. So pick me, choose me, love me.
Meredith Grey: You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress, prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill. You would lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming, they were so close you could taste them, but eventually you grow up, one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is its hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely cause almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they will open their eyes and it will come true.
Alex Karev: For a kiss to be really good, you want it to mean something. You want it to be with someone you can't get out of your head, so that when your lips finally touch you feel it everywhere. A kiss so hot and so deep you never want to come up for air. You can't cheat your first kiss. Trust me, you don't want to. Cause when you find that right person for a first kiss, it's everything.
Meredith: I'm still mad at you. And I don't know if I trust you. I wanna trust you but I don't know if I do so I'm just gonna try, I'm gonna try and trustyou. Because I believe that we can be extraordinary together rather than ordinary apart, and I wanna be--
The OC
As Ryan Adam's cover of Wonderwall plays
Summer: C'mon Cohen, you are so cheesy.
Seth: I'm sweeping you off your feet.
Summer: The sad part is, you kinda are.
Summer: Do you have the stud finder?
Seth:Oh Summer. I think you are the stud finder.
Summer: You see this hammer in my hand?
Seth:Yeah, we'll find the stud finder. What does it look like?
Summer: Don't you know what a level is?
Seth:Yeah, it's something that you advance to in a video game.
Summer: That's funny. The tool doesn't know about tools.
Seth about Summer's dad: I'm sorry I'm not his type. But you know what? That doesn't matter. None of it really matters. Except what I mean to you.
Summer: I'm sorry. runs off
Summer: The more time I spend with Zach, the less time I think about goddamn what's-his-face, built like a beanpole, curly hair, runs away like a little bitch on a sailboat, leaving nothing but a note for his girlfriend, who cried and cried over him until the Fourth of July when she realised she doesn't cry over bitches on boats.
Marissa: Seth, His name its Seth.
Summer: What do you want from me, Cohen?
Seth: I just want you.
Summer: No you don't. You had me. You had me at Chrismukkah in a freakin' Wonderwoman costume and you chose Anna. You had me three months ago and you left.
Seth: I want to make that up to you.
Summer: It has nothing to do with me. It's about you. And it is always about you: what you need and what you want. You know, it seems you only want me when you can't have me. You like the chase, and that's all. And you know what? You can have it.
Seth: I'm sorry I've been such an ass, okay. It's just, you're superior to me in so many ways. You're better looking, you're more popular, you're stronger... and not just emotionally.
Summer: Cohen, I'll always look up to you. And not just because you're taller than me.
Ryan: "Who has been the greatest influence in your intellectual development?"
Summer: Um, Miuccia Prada.
Seth: You probably wanna say something more like Einstein or—
Summer: So you want me to lie?
Seth: No, it's just, uh, I don't think Prada is the answer they're looking for.
Summer: Well this interview could determine the rest of our lives, right? Well, if I say something I don't believe in I could end up with the wrong life. How awful would that be?
Ryan: She has a point.
Summer: I have to go get a mani-pedi.
Seth: Summer.
Summer: Cohen. If you memorize the answers you think they want to hear, that's fine. But I believe in being myself. And by the way, Miuccia Prada combines styles from time periods in a way that people never even imagined possible.
Summer: I can't believe Ryan and Sadie are moving to Berkeley together. I think that's so romantic.
Seth: I don't know what Ryan's thinking.
Summer: What are you talking about?
Seth: Well he's 18. I just think college should come first.
Summer: Not if you're with the one you think you should be with. That you'll forever be with.
Seth: Who really knows that at 18?
Summer: I do. long silence Oh my god. You don't.
Summer: No way. No scheming, no plan Bs, no wacky hijinks? Cohen broke up with me. Only he has the power to unbreak us up. There's no way I'm gonna go groveling back to him like some pathetic brokenhearted little bitch.
Taylor: Do you still love him?
Summer: Yeah. There's something wrong with me, huh?
Taylor: Did he say that he doesn't love you?
Summer: Now that you mention it, no. He did not.
Taylor: You see, he's acting out of fear. He's trapped in an anxiety spiral. And in the rock, paper, scissors of romance, love trumps fear. Actually love trumps everything.
Summer: Just remember, this isn't goodbye. You're my destiny, Cohen.
Seth: Go save the world, Summer Roberts.
Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Friday, April 3, 2009
say what?
Some inspiring and cute quotes I found surfing the web:
"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident."
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin
"(...) la memoria del corazón elimina los malos recuerdos y magnifíca los buenos y gracias a ese artificio logramos sobrellevar el pasado."
- El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera
"¿Cuánto tiempo esperarías al amor de tú vida? (...) toda la vida".
- El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera
"To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell."
- Love in the Times of Cholera
"It's so easy, to think about Love, to Talk about Love, to wish for love, but it's not always easy, to recognize love, Even when we hold it...in our hands."
- Jaka
"You and you alone make me feel that I am alive...Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough."
- George Moore
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart."
- Robert Sexton
"Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love."
- Erich Fromm
"You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly."
- Sam Keen
"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves."
- Blaise Pascal
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
- Carl Jung
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
- Lao Tzu
"The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss."
- Unknown
"So dear I love him that with him,
All deaths I could endure.
Without him, live no life."
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
"Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself."
- Jean Anouilh
“El amor es comprensivo, el amor es servicial y no tiene envidia; el amor no presume ni se engríe; no es mal educado ni egoísta; no se irrita, no lleva cuentas del mal; no se alegra de la injusticia, sino que goza con la verdad. Disculpa sin límites, cree sin límites, espera sin límites, aguanta sin límites. El amor no pasa nunca”.
- San Pablo
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
- Plato
"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident."
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin
"(...) la memoria del corazón elimina los malos recuerdos y magnifíca los buenos y gracias a ese artificio logramos sobrellevar el pasado."
- El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera
"¿Cuánto tiempo esperarías al amor de tú vida? (...) toda la vida".
- El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera
"To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell."
- Love in the Times of Cholera
"It's so easy, to think about Love, to Talk about Love, to wish for love, but it's not always easy, to recognize love, Even when we hold it...in our hands."
- Jaka
"You and you alone make me feel that I am alive...Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough."
- George Moore
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart."
- Robert Sexton
"Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love."
- Erich Fromm
"You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly."
- Sam Keen
"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves."
- Blaise Pascal
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
- Carl Jung
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
- Lao Tzu
"The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss."
- Unknown
"So dear I love him that with him,
All deaths I could endure.
Without him, live no life."
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
"Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself."
- Jean Anouilh
“El amor es comprensivo, el amor es servicial y no tiene envidia; el amor no presume ni se engríe; no es mal educado ni egoísta; no se irrita, no lleva cuentas del mal; no se alegra de la injusticia, sino que goza con la verdad. Disculpa sin límites, cree sin límites, espera sin límites, aguanta sin límites. El amor no pasa nunca”.
- San Pablo
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
- Plato
Thursday, April 2, 2009
really great things happen in the blink of an eye
And I said
Romeo save me, I've been feeling so alone
This love is difficult, but it's real
- Love Story, Taylor Swift
It's funny, I've started to notice a recurring pattern in my life. Most of the really amazing (and really awful) things that have happened lately, have appeared out of the blue, with a bang. I had no time whatsoever to prepare for the event, and while that has made me much stronger and less propense to go crazy over the unexpected, like in the past, I still believe a little warning about what is going to happen would be great. By this point, you all know all the bad stuff that has happened between Super Boy and I, and you probably know more about his flaws and mistakes more than he does. Yet, I have failed to mention all the amazing things he has brought to my life, and as I mentioned in the previous post, I think that's not fair.
Last Tuesday (not this week, the past one) Drunk n' Rowdy and another of Super Boy's close friends whom we'll refer to as the Philosopher came over, and that usually implies music, alcohol and lots of late night fun. Anyway, we were talking and laughing at the dinner table, everyone but me was drinking (no, I'm not kidding, it was a tuesday! I'm not that insane) and we were all having a good time, when Godzilla appeared. Godzilla is the man that owns the place where I live, and if the nickname he has tells you nothing, let me tell you he has quite the temper. He told us he was sick with the flu, and that he wanted to sleep that night. Translation: 'fuck off damn kids, no more music. party's over.' We had all resigned and started cleaning up, when Drunk n' Rowdy offered his place to continue the party. He lives really close by, and no one would bother us about the noise level. So we all headed over to his house, and on the way met up with three of his friends, two of which were really weird but one was a pretty nice guy. As time passed, people started getting drunk, and of course that included Super Boy. Don't ask me exactly how it started, or when, but the thing is by the time I noticed he had his arms around me and he was kissing my cheek, and we somehow ended up making out that night. DON'T JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS JUST YET. It was different though, with everything that had happened, I had reached a point where I no longer attached any specific feelings or 'could be' to those things, and so the next day I wasn't feeling particularly ansy or hopeful about what had happened.
Anyhoo, on Friday, Super Boy told me la Gioconda wanted to go out that night, since her mom had had surgery the previous day and she wanted to unwind. The plan was that Super Boy, la Gioconda, the Philosopher, Miss A.A. and I would all go to the Joker's apartment, and then see if we stayed there or went to a club. But as the clock ticked people started canceling, and by the time we left the house, it was only Super Boy and I. Once we reached the Joker's apartment, Fanny Mae, his girlfriend, and Therapy Guy, his BFF, were already there. We decided to go to a nearby club called XIVA, and once we were waiting for everyone to pay and walk inside, Super Boy turns to me and says 'once we are settled at a table, could I talk to you for five minutes?' And I was like 'wtf? I wonder what he wants to say.' Honestly, I couldn't even begin to imagine what he wanted to talk about, and of course my imagination ran wild with all sorts of possible scenarios. So, once we were settled at a table and started dancing, I assumed Super Boy would say something. But all we talked about was random nonsense, and I began to wonder if he had forgotten (since he has the memory of a fish). So I asked him about the subject, and he simply laughed and said he was still thinking about it. That threw me off even more. I mean, what was so serious that he had to think about it so thoroughly?
Later in the night, when I had completely forgotten about the topic and I was dancing like a crazy person, he turned to me with his serious face and I knew it was time. He pulled me aside and said 'I've been thinking and thinking the whole thing over, and I think I've reached a conclusion. What happened last Tuesday at Drunk n' Rowdy's tells me there is still something here. I still have feelings for you, and I think the best would be to give this another shot. Give me another chance. You know me, and you know I can't promise I won't fell suffocated again in four months, but I really think this is worth a shot. Of course, we have to work to improve things because we both know in the past we took wrong decisions and things took a turn for the worst, but this time it can be different. We just have to make an effort, because the whole point is to grow, both of us. I need this, I think this is the best for me, but now I need you to think on what's the best for you. Whether you decide to get back together with me, or to leave things like they are, it's fine with me. Take all the time you need, don't answer right away, don't answer tomorrow. Focus first on all the important things you have to do this week, and then we can talk about it. What do you think?'
I bet you can all imagine exactly how I was feeling. I mean, to say I was shocked would be to state the obvious. He had thrown a cruve ball at me, and I was too stunned to speak. Never ever would I have imagined that speech. I know him well, and I know his decisions are keepers. It's really rare when he changes his mind, and so when he said 'there's no turning back,' I truly believed it was all over, for good. After a few minutes of shocked silence, I finally regained enough control of myself to nod and tell him I would think about it. Of course, the next couple of days were a haze. I have no idea how I could sum up enough brain activity to focus on my history essay. My mind was constantly wandering off, and I kept reliving the whole thing in my mind. I talked to a couple of friends about it, to my mom, and by Sunday the decision was clear. I mean, I think the decision was clear since the moment he spoke, but I still had to give it some thought. There was a huge risk, yes, and I knew the stakes were high. Probability dictates that I will most likely end up hurt again. And still, I cannot say no. Like Amazing Girlfriend told me: 'If you say no, will you spend the rest of your life wondering what could have been?' She's completely right. If there is one thing I cannot stand, it's uncertainty. I don't think I could live with the doubt of what would have happened if I had given us the chance.
So, that's how I finally concluded I wanted him back. We haven't really spoken about the subject again, since I've been up and down like a crazy person this week, but I think the subject will come up during the weekend, once we're both activity-free. I know many of you are probably reading this and shaking your head at me, going all 'oh cristina, here you go again you silly girl.' All I can say is: don't hate me, I just have to give this one more chance. If I end up hurt, it will be entirely my fault. But what if something great comes out from all of this? I just have to know.
Romeo save me, I've been feeling so alone
This love is difficult, but it's real
- Love Story, Taylor Swift
It's funny, I've started to notice a recurring pattern in my life. Most of the really amazing (and really awful) things that have happened lately, have appeared out of the blue, with a bang. I had no time whatsoever to prepare for the event, and while that has made me much stronger and less propense to go crazy over the unexpected, like in the past, I still believe a little warning about what is going to happen would be great. By this point, you all know all the bad stuff that has happened between Super Boy and I, and you probably know more about his flaws and mistakes more than he does. Yet, I have failed to mention all the amazing things he has brought to my life, and as I mentioned in the previous post, I think that's not fair.Last Tuesday (not this week, the past one) Drunk n' Rowdy and another of Super Boy's close friends whom we'll refer to as the Philosopher came over, and that usually implies music, alcohol and lots of late night fun. Anyway, we were talking and laughing at the dinner table, everyone but me was drinking (no, I'm not kidding, it was a tuesday! I'm not that insane) and we were all having a good time, when Godzilla appeared. Godzilla is the man that owns the place where I live, and if the nickname he has tells you nothing, let me tell you he has quite the temper. He told us he was sick with the flu, and that he wanted to sleep that night. Translation: 'fuck off damn kids, no more music. party's over.' We had all resigned and started cleaning up, when Drunk n' Rowdy offered his place to continue the party. He lives really close by, and no one would bother us about the noise level. So we all headed over to his house, and on the way met up with three of his friends, two of which were really weird but one was a pretty nice guy. As time passed, people started getting drunk, and of course that included Super Boy. Don't ask me exactly how it started, or when, but the thing is by the time I noticed he had his arms around me and he was kissing my cheek, and we somehow ended up making out that night. DON'T JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS JUST YET. It was different though, with everything that had happened, I had reached a point where I no longer attached any specific feelings or 'could be' to those things, and so the next day I wasn't feeling particularly ansy or hopeful about what had happened.
Anyhoo, on Friday, Super Boy told me la Gioconda wanted to go out that night, since her mom had had surgery the previous day and she wanted to unwind. The plan was that Super Boy, la Gioconda, the Philosopher, Miss A.A. and I would all go to the Joker's apartment, and then see if we stayed there or went to a club. But as the clock ticked people started canceling, and by the time we left the house, it was only Super Boy and I. Once we reached the Joker's apartment, Fanny Mae, his girlfriend, and Therapy Guy, his BFF, were already there. We decided to go to a nearby club called XIVA, and once we were waiting for everyone to pay and walk inside, Super Boy turns to me and says 'once we are settled at a table, could I talk to you for five minutes?' And I was like 'wtf? I wonder what he wants to say.' Honestly, I couldn't even begin to imagine what he wanted to talk about, and of course my imagination ran wild with all sorts of possible scenarios. So, once we were settled at a table and started dancing, I assumed Super Boy would say something. But all we talked about was random nonsense, and I began to wonder if he had forgotten (since he has the memory of a fish). So I asked him about the subject, and he simply laughed and said he was still thinking about it. That threw me off even more. I mean, what was so serious that he had to think about it so thoroughly?
Later in the night, when I had completely forgotten about the topic and I was dancing like a crazy person, he turned to me with his serious face and I knew it was time. He pulled me aside and said 'I've been thinking and thinking the whole thing over, and I think I've reached a conclusion. What happened last Tuesday at Drunk n' Rowdy's tells me there is still something here. I still have feelings for you, and I think the best would be to give this another shot. Give me another chance. You know me, and you know I can't promise I won't fell suffocated again in four months, but I really think this is worth a shot. Of course, we have to work to improve things because we both know in the past we took wrong decisions and things took a turn for the worst, but this time it can be different. We just have to make an effort, because the whole point is to grow, both of us. I need this, I think this is the best for me, but now I need you to think on what's the best for you. Whether you decide to get back together with me, or to leave things like they are, it's fine with me. Take all the time you need, don't answer right away, don't answer tomorrow. Focus first on all the important things you have to do this week, and then we can talk about it. What do you think?'
I bet you can all imagine exactly how I was feeling. I mean, to say I was shocked would be to state the obvious. He had thrown a cruve ball at me, and I was too stunned to speak. Never ever would I have imagined that speech. I know him well, and I know his decisions are keepers. It's really rare when he changes his mind, and so when he said 'there's no turning back,' I truly believed it was all over, for good. After a few minutes of shocked silence, I finally regained enough control of myself to nod and tell him I would think about it. Of course, the next couple of days were a haze. I have no idea how I could sum up enough brain activity to focus on my history essay. My mind was constantly wandering off, and I kept reliving the whole thing in my mind. I talked to a couple of friends about it, to my mom, and by Sunday the decision was clear. I mean, I think the decision was clear since the moment he spoke, but I still had to give it some thought. There was a huge risk, yes, and I knew the stakes were high. Probability dictates that I will most likely end up hurt again. And still, I cannot say no. Like Amazing Girlfriend told me: 'If you say no, will you spend the rest of your life wondering what could have been?' She's completely right. If there is one thing I cannot stand, it's uncertainty. I don't think I could live with the doubt of what would have happened if I had given us the chance.
So, that's how I finally concluded I wanted him back. We haven't really spoken about the subject again, since I've been up and down like a crazy person this week, but I think the subject will come up during the weekend, once we're both activity-free. I know many of you are probably reading this and shaking your head at me, going all 'oh cristina, here you go again you silly girl.' All I can say is: don't hate me, I just have to give this one more chance. If I end up hurt, it will be entirely my fault. But what if something great comes out from all of this? I just have to know.
