Top 3 Romantic Movie Quotes

So you know Jerry Maguire's "You complete me" thingy. What other romatic movie lines scattered like wildfire?

For me, the top 3 romantic quotes include:

1. "So it's not gonna be easy, it's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I'm willing to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday." - Duke of The Notebook (2004)
   
   "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'd hoped to give you forever." - excerpt from Noah's letter to Allie


2. "You know when I said I knew little about love? That wasn't true. I know a lot about love. I've seen it, centuries and centuries of it, and it was the only thing that made watching your world bearable. All those wars. Pain, lies, hate... It made me want to turn away and never look down again. But when I see the way that mankind loves... You could search to the furthest reaches of the universe and never find anything more beautiful. So yes, I know that love is unconditional. But I also know that it can be unpredictable, unexpected, uncontrollable, unbearable and strangely easy to mistake for loathing, and... What I'm trying to say, Tristan is... I think I love you. Is this love, Tristan? I never imagined I'd know it for myself. My heart... It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it's trying to escape because it doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to you. And if you wanted it, I'd wish for nothing in exchange - no gifts. No goods. No demonstrations of devotion. Nothing but knowing you loved me too. Just your heart, in exchange for mine." - Yvaine of Stardust (2007)



3. "This is the story of the first and last time I fell in love of a beautiful, complicated, and fascinating woman who inhabit my soul. I am pretty sure you gonna leave me tomorrow, so I better say this when I have a chance. Whether we are together or apart, you will always be the woman of my life, the only man I will always envy is the man who wins your heart. Now I will always believe that it is my destiny to be that man. If we never see each other again, you are out walking one day and you feel certain presence beside you… that will be me, loving you wherever I am." - excerpt from Charlie's letter to Jordan, My Sassy Girl (2008)

Love Is Or It Ain't

Sometimes we are confused by life. And sometimes keeping our fingers crossed is not a good idea. There’s no easy formula.. really.

Maybe one of the most confusing of all confusions is knowing the right person for you. Indeed, having him/her beside you at the right time is no easy way.

Sometimes, you love but that person won’t love you back. Sometimes it’s the other way around. What makes it more mixed up is when you are already loved by the person you love and you’re starting to love the one who loves you. So twisted… There are also times when love is wanting…when you mistake love for something like infatuation…

Sometimes we search too far only to find out that the right person is just few steps away (can be your bestfriend, enemy, neighbor, or a friend of a friend).

Sometimes we are tricked by life. Sometimes we are tricked by ourselves...of our greed...of our fear to love...

I've read a counseling book penned by a renowned psychologist (unfortunately, I can’t recall his name at this very moment). One short story revolved around a 56-year-old man. He was divorced twice and was separated thrice. The first few years of his first marriage were ecstatic….Then came his daughter.

He felt that the child has entirely captured his wife’s affection…because of this, the marriage was on the rocks for the next years. So the man find ways to divorce his wife. He left his first wife to marry a younger one. Their relationship went on for about four years. Then, he again filed a divorce. The third marriage came too soon and ended too quickly. It took him about 8 long years to realize that he has already found the one true love he has been looking for in the person of his first wife unfortunately, he had let it slipped away. No way can he put the pieces back because his former spouse was already dead.

Sometimes holding on is the answer. Sometimes letting go…

In the movie Serendipity, the couple reunite years after the night they first met, fell in love, and separated, convinced that one day they'd end up together. They have let destiny bring them as one guided by the constellation Cassiopeia.
In Notting Hill, the essence is sacrifice and giving up something…You give up fame, power for the sake of love.. It’s the act of being broken that make’s it special. The story was all about the world’s most famous movie star and a simple travel bookstore owner, who has a non-existent love life. For both, something or someone seems to be missing. And when both paths unexpectedly cross, love is the last thing on their mind. The couple comes to face the ultimate question: Can two people fall in love with the whole world watching?

The Perfect Catch is all about a schoolteacher who has been obsessed with the Boston Red Sox for 23 years. Then he fell in love with Drew, a dynamo career woman. But the 2004 baseball season shaked their relationship to the breaking point. Loving really, is also loving his/her ways…I can still remember Drew’s line: “Those things you like, I feel them too – for you!” Sports and work don’t love you back. People do.

Stepford Wives made me understand why there are imperfections. What does it take to become a Stepford wife, a woman perfect beyond belief? Ask the Stepford husbands, who've created a high-tech dreadful little town in modern milieu. They thought it’s the best idea. But were they accurate? Being perfect is downright BORING.

This world is not a product of make-believe but reality. It’s not a movie where we can have a number of cuts to perfect the scene. It’s not a film where we can delete the mediocre takes and pause when we want to linger on a scene…

We can only have flashback and flashforward in our mind. Albeit, we can all relate.