The Holiday
It's Christmas Eve and I have finally found sometime to relax and actually blog. I really thought I would have time to blog every day coming home this break but I have been busier now than I ever was at school. At this moment, I am watching the movie "The Holiday" and it is just filled with so many brilliant quotes and most of them are too long to post on twitter so I figured I could share them on here. Merry Christmas Eve! I hope you have a wonderful holiday with your family and friends! <3
Iris:
Because you're hoping you're wrong. And every time she does something
that tells you she's no good, you ignore it. And every time she comes
through and suprises you, she wins you over, and you lose that argument
with yourself, that she's not for you.
Miles:
Exactly, and on top of that there's the old standby, I can't believe a girl like that would actually be with a guy like me.
Arthur Abbott:
So, he's a schmuck.
Iris:
As a matter of fact, he is... a huge schmuck. How did you know?
Arthur Abbott:
He let you go. This is not a hard one to figure out. Iris, in the movies
we have leading ladies and we have the best friend. You, I can tell,
are a leading lady, but for some reason you are behaving like the best
friend.
Iris:
You're so right. You're supposed to be the leading lady of your own
life, for god's sake! Arthur, I've been going to a therapist for three
years, and she's never explained anything to me that well. That was
brilliant. Brutal, but brilliant.
Iris:
The great thing is I actually do. And I'm about three years late in
telling you this, but nevertheless I need to say it. Jasper. Wait, I
need the lights on. Jasper, you have never treated me right. Ever.
Jasper:
Oh, babe.
Iris:
Shush. You broke my heart. And you acted like somehow it was my fault,
my misunderstanding, and I was too in love with you to ever be mad at
you, so I just punished myself! For years! But you waltzing in here on
my lovely Christmas holiday, and telling me that you don't want to lose
me whilst you're about to get MARRIED, somehow newly entitles me to say,
it's over. This - This twisted, toxic THING between us, is finally
finished! I'm miraculously done being in love with you! Ha! I've got a
life to start living.
Iris:
I've found almost everything ever written about love to be true.
Shakespeare said "Journeys end in lovers meeting." What an extraordinary
thought. Personally, I have not experienced anything remotely close to
that, but I am more than willing to believe Shakespeare had. I suppose I
think about love more than anyone really should. I am constantly amazed
by its sheer power to alter and define our lives. It was Shakespeare
who also said "love is blind". Now that is something I know to be true.
For some quite inexplicably, love fades; for others love is simply lost.
But then of course love can also be found, even if just for the night.
And then, there's another kind of love: the cruelest kind. The one that
almost kills its victims. Its called unrequited love. Of that I am an
expert. Most love stories are about people who fall in love with each
other. But what about the rest of us? What about our stories, those of
us who fall in love alone? We are the victims of the one sided affair.
We are the cursed of the loved ones. We are the unloved ones, the
walking wounded. The handicapped without the advantage of a great
parking space! Yes, you are looking at one such individual. And I have
willingly loved that man for over three miserable years! The absolute
worst years of my life! The worst Christmas', the worst Birthday's, New
Years Eve's brought in by tears and valium. These years that I have been
in love have been the darkest days of my life. All because I've been
cursed by being in love with a man who does not and will not love me
back. Oh god, just the sight of him! Heart pounding! Throat thickening!
Absolutely can't swallow! All the usual symptoms.
Arthur Abbott:
Say a man and a woman both need something to sleep in and both go to the
same men's pajama department. The man says to the salesman, "I just
need bottoms," and the woman says, "I just need a top." They look at
each other and that's the 'meet cute.'
Iris:
I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible.
And how it can actually ache in places you didn't know you had inside
you. And it doesn't matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you
join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your
girlfriends... you still go to bed every night going over every detail
and wonder what you did wrong or how you could have misunderstood. And
how in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that
happy. And sometimes you can even convince yourself that he'll see the
light and show up at your door. And after all that, however long all
that may be, you'll go somewhere new. And you'll meet people who make
you feel worthwhile again. And little pieces of your soul will finally
come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you
wasted, that will eventually begin to fade.
Graham:
I have another scenario for you - I'm in love with you. I apologize for
the blunt delivery, but as problematic as this fact may be, I'm in
love... with YOU. I'm not feeling this because you're leaving, and not
because it feels good to feel this way... which, by the way, it does, or
did before you went off like that. I can't figure out the mathematics
of this, I just know I love you. I can't believe how many times I'm
saying it! And I never thought I'd feel this way again, so that's pretty
phenomenal. And I realize that I come as a package deal: 3 for the
price of 1. I know my package, perhaps in the light of day, isn't all
that wonderful, but I finally know what I want and that, in itself, is a
miracle. And what I want is YOU.
Iris:
I like corny. I'm looking for corny in my life.
Listening to:
You Send Me - Arethra Franklin
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