Quotes from “The Notebook” (149+)
Based on the best-selling novel by Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook is at once heartwarming and heartbreaking ad will capture you with its sweeping and emotional force.
We collected the most beautiful quotes from “The Notebook” for all the loving hearts out there.
“The Notebook” movie
As teenagers, Allie (Rachel McAdams) and Noah (Ryan Gosling) begin a whirlwind courtship that soon blossoms into tender intimacy.
The young couple is quickly separated by Allie’s upper-class parents who insist that Noah isn’t right for her.
Several years pass and, when they meet again, their passion is rekindled, forcing Allie to choose between her soulmate and class order.
This beautiful tale has a particularly special meaning to an older gentleman (James Garner) who regularly reads the timeless love story to his aging companion (Gena Rowlands).
Interesting facts about the movie:
- Rachel and Ryan won The MTV Award for Best Kiss and forever changed how the award is accepted. That kissing scene is more than iconic and at the 2005 MTV Movie Awards they won the award for Best Kiss. When they accepted, they recreated the scene. Now, it’s a tradition at the award show that the winner’s kiss when they accept the award.
- Allie’s part in the book was expanded for the movie. The book is mostly from Noah’s perspective. You get to see his reactions to things Allie says or does, but it’s not from her pov. The movie balances things out so you get both sides of their story and helps you understand her.
- The movie has a different ending on Netflix. The Notebook is about to be added to Netflix in the US, but it’s already available in the UK and fans are not happy with the big change that they made at the end. According to Twitter users, the Netflix version fades to black after older Allie and Noah hold hands in bed. This ending completely skips the scene where the nurses discover that they both died in each other’s arms overnight.
- Rachel McAdams had less than a day to prepare for her audition. She received her script for the movie the night before her audition when she happened to be at another movie’s premiere.
- Ryan wore brown contacts for filming. Since older Noah was portrayed by James Garner and he had brown eyes, Ryan had to wear brown contacts to cover up his blue eyes.
- Ryan Gosling improvised that iconic, passionate line at the end of the movie. You know when Noah confronts Allie at the end of the movie and forces her to come to terms with what she really wants, shouting, “What do you want! What do you want?” Ryan was so committed to his character, he came up with that gem on the spot. Because he’s that good.
5 quotes from “The Notebook”
1. “I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
2. “So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s going to 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, forever, every day. You and me… every day.”
3. “You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
4. “You are, and always have been, my dream.”
5. “You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”
15 quotes from “The Notebook”
1. “I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours. ”
2. “We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that’s why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I’ll never forget a single moment of it.”
3. “They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.”
4. “My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.”
5. “You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.”
6. “Every great love starts with a great story…”
7. “In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I’d write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you’d gone on with your life and I didn’t want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn’t ever want to lose that.”
8. “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we’ve lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we’ve found each other. And maybe each time, we’ve been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.”
9. “We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”
10. “In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life”
11. “She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I’m sitting here, I think about her. There could never have been another.”
12. “She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.”
13. “If you’re a bird… I’m a bird…”
14. “Noah: “You wanna dance with me?”
Allie: “Sure. Now?”
Noah: “Mmm Hmm”
Allie: “You’re not supposed to dance in the street.”
Noah: “You are supposed to dance in the street.”
Allie: “Yeah, but we don’t have any music.”
Noah: “Well, we’ll make some… Bum bum bum bum bum bum…”
Allie: “You’re a terrible singer.”
Noah: “I know.”
Allie: “And I like this song.”
15. “The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.”
20 quotes from “The Notebook”
1. “Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can’t control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That’s what it was like for me. I didn’t plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if oyu planned on fallin gin love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has happened only once, and that’s why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I’ll never forget a single moment of it.”
2. “Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?”
3. “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”
4. “A living poem” had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.”
5. “An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he’d taken his next breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never find again. She seemed that good, that perfect, while a summer wind blew through the trees.”
6. “Poetry, she thought, wasn’t written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”
7. “She would tell him what she wanted in her life–her hopes and dreams for the future–and he would listen intently and then promise to make it all come true. And the way he said it made her believe him, and she knew how much he meant to her.”
8. “You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the value of love. You showed me what it was like to care for another, and I am a better man because of it. I don’t want you to ever forget that.”
9. “What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?”
10. “No, it’s not that. It’s not what you’re thinking. I was serious when I said ‘all of it’. I can remember every moment we were together, and in each of them there was something wonderful. I can’t really pick any one time that meant more than any other. The entire summer was perfect, the kind of summer everyone should have. How could I pick one moment over another? Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can’t control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That’s what it was like for me. I didn’t plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if you planned on falling in love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has happened only once, and that’s why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I’ll never forget a single moment of it.”
11. “It’s the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.”
12. “And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don’t know how you knew, but you did, and you made it easier for me.”
13. “I’ll be anything you want, just tell me what you want and I’ll be that.”
14. “Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other .”
15. “I know, but no matter what I choose I have to live with it. Forever. I have to be able to go forward and not look back anymore. Can you understand that?”
16. “a person can get used to anything if given enough time”
17. “I lost you once, I think I can do it again.”
18. “Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants. Stop thinking
about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do you want?”
19. “Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.”
20. “no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. i will always be yours.”
25 quotes from “The Notebook”
1. “Maybe we’ve lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we’ve found each other… I know I’ve spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.”
2. “Our lives can’t be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.”
3. “I’ve learned that we’re all entitled to have our secrets.”
4. “Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.”
5. “It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.”
6. “He looked at her. She was pretty still, with thick hair and soft eyes, and she moved so gracefully that it almost seemed as though she were gliding. He’d seen beautiful women before, though, women who caught his eye, but to his mind, they usually lacked the traits he found most desirable. Traits like intelligence, confidence, strength of spirit, passion, traits that inspired others to greatness, traits he aspired to himself.”
7. “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.”
8. “I love you now as I write this, and I love you now as you read this”
9. “Would you just stay with me?
Stay with you? What for? Look at us! We’re already fighting!
Well that’s what we do! We fight! You tell me when I’m being an arrogant son of a and I tell you when you’re being a pain in the ass! Which you are, 99% of the time. I’m not afraid to hurt your feelings, you have like a two-second rebound rate and you’re back doing the next pain in the ass thing.
So, what?
So it’s not gonna be easy, it’s gonna be really hard. And we’re gonna have to work at this everyday, but I wanna do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever. You and me. Everyday.”
10. “But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had changed him forever. Perfect love did that to a person and this had been perfect.”
11. “Who am I? And how I wonder, will this story end? . . .
My life? It is’nt easy to explain. It has not been the rip-roaring spectacular I fancied it woulf be, but neither have I burrowed around with the gophers. i suppose it has most resembled a bluechip stock: fairly stable, more ups and downs, and gradually tending over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I’ve learned that not everyone can say this about his life. But do not be misled. I am nothing special; of this I am sure. I am common man with common thought and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me, and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind, it’s a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that involves a great deal of my life and the path I’ve chosen to follow. I have no complaints about the places it has taken me, enough complaints to fill a circus tent about other thins, maybe, but the path I’ve chosen has always been the right one, and I would’nt have had it any other way.
Time, unfortunatley, does’nt make it easy to stay on course. The path is straight as ever, but now it is strewn with the rocks and gravel that accumulated over a lifetime . . .
There is always a moment right before I begin to read the story when my mind churns, and I wonder, will it happen today? I don’t know, for I never know beforehand, and deep down it really doesn’t matter. It’s the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee, a sort of wager on my part. And though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.
I realize that odds, and science, are againts me. But science is not the answer; this I know, this I have learned in my lifetime. And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things. So once again, just as I do ecery day, I begin to read the notebook aloud, so that she can hear it, in the hope that the miracle, that has come to dominate my life will once again prevail.
And maybe, just maybe, it will.”
12. “It might seem as the hardest thing to do, but you have to forget the guy who forgot about you.”
13. “I been watchin’ you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin’ to forget.”
14. “I realize the odds, and science, are against me. But science is not the total answer; this I know, this I have learned in my lifetime. And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things.”
15. “Our souls were one, if you must know and never shall they be apart; with splendid dawn, your face aglow i reach for you and find my heart”
16. “We’re not the same people we were then. We’ve changed, we’ve grown.”
17. “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and always will be. Maybe we’ve lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we’ve found each other. And maybe each time, we’ve been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come. When I look at you, I see your beauty and grace and know they have grown stronger with every life you have lived. And I know I have spent every life before this on searching for you. Not someone like you, but you, for your soul and mine must always come together. And then, for a reason neither of us understand, we’ve been forced to say goodbye. I would love to tell you that everything will work out for us, and I promise to do all I can to make sure it does. But if we never meet again and this is truly goodbye, I know we will see each other again, and maybe the stars will have changed, and we will not only love each other in that time, but for all the times we’ve had before.”
18. “You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. I love you, Aliie, more than you can ever imagine. I always have, and I always will.”
19. “What was she like?”
I tell the truth.
“She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I’m sitting here, I think about her. There could never be another.”
20. “That’s my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that’s where my home is.”
21. “After dinner, I become afraid despite myself. I know I should be joyous, for this reunion is the proof that love can still be ours, but I know the bell has tolled this evening. The sun has long since set and the thief is about to come, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. So I stare at her and wait and live a lifetime in these last remaining moments.”
22. “And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.”
23. “I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I’ve learned that not everyone can say that about his life.”
24. “The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it’s a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path I’ve chosen to follow.”
25. “Toward the end of their relationship she’d told him once, “I wish I could give you what you’re looking for, but I don’t know what it is. There’s a part of you that you keep closed off from everyone, including me. Its as if I’m not the one you’re really with. Your mind is on someone else.” He tried to deny it, but she didn’t believe him. “I’m a woman – I know these things. When you look at me sometimes, I know you’re seeing someone else. Its like you keep waiting for her to pop out of thin air to take you away from all this…”
30 quotes from “The Notebook”
1. “When the lump in his throat subsided, he whispered to her, “You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. I love you, Allie, more than you can ever imagine. I always have, and I always will.”
2. “Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he’d always identified with poets.”
3. “i wait. with all my dreams, i know her heart, and i know i’m almost there.”
4. “But more than that, he admired the way she’d always spoken her mind. He remembered that after they’d gone out a few times, he’d said to her what he said to all women he dated-that he wasn’t ready for a steady relationship. Unlike the others, though, Allie had simply nodded and said, “Fine.” But on her way out the door, she’d turned and said: “But your problem isn’t me, or your job, or your freedom, or whatever else you think it is. Your problem is that you’re alone. Your father made the Hammond name famous, and you’ve probably been compared to him all your life. You’ve never been your own person. A life like that makes you empty inside, and you’re looking for someone who will magically fill that void. But no one can do that but you.”
5. “Science only goes so far, then comes God.
– Noah Calhoun-”
6. “Would you do something for me? Please? Would you just picture your life for me? Thirty years from now, forty years from now? What’s it look like? If it’s with that guy, go. Go! I lost you once, I think I could do it again, if I thought it’s what you really wanted.”
7. “sometimes our future is
dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.”
8. “I love you, Allie. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.
And, my darling, you will always be mine.”
9. “My daddy used to tell me ‘the first time you fall in love it changes your life forever, and no matter how hard you try, the feelin’ never goes away. This girl you been tellin’ me about was your first love. And no matter what you do, she’ll stay with you forever.”
10. “He was from a different class, too poor, and they would never approve if their daughter became serious with someone like him.”
11. “I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I’d turned out. Regrets about journey, maybe, but not the destination.”
12. “Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?”
13. “I want all of you, forever everyday. You and me everyday.”
14. “That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.”
15. “And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love.”
16. “Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can’t control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. Thats what it’s like for me. I didn’t plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt that you planned on falling in love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me love like that has happened only once, and thats why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I’ll never forget a single moment of it.”
17. “Nothing is ever lost nor can be lost; the body aged, sluggish,cold…. the embers left from earlier fires shall dully flame again”
18. “I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I’m gone.”
19. “America was in full swing now, all the papers said so, and people were rushing forward, leaving behind the horrors of war. She understood the reasons, but they were rushing, like Lon, toward long hours and profits, neglecting the things that brought beauty to the world.”
20. “Say I’m a bird”
21. “How’s it hangin’ Harry?
I keep trying to die, but they won’t let me.
Well, you can’t have everything.”
22. “Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping”
23. “The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.”
24. “Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind, thoughts of the spirit? Or hunted dawn from the bow of a canoe? These weren’t the things that drove society, but she felt they shouldn’t be treated as unimportant. They made living worthwhile.”
25. “Perfect love did that to a person, and this had been perfect.”
26. “A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.”
27. “So that’s the ghost you been running from.”
28. “Say I’m a bird! Say it! Say it now!”
“You’re a bird.”
“Now say you’re a bird too.”
“If you’re a bird, I’m a bird.”
29. “I’m not saying it because I’m sweet. I’m saying it because I love you now and I always have. More than you can imagine.”
30. “I know what it’s like to be day and night now; always together, forever apart.”
35 quotes from “The Notebook”
1. “But she also sensed it wasn’t enough. She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversation in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.”
2. “I am a common man with common thoughts, and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”
3. “And maybe, just maybe, it will.”
4. “Like her father, he wasn’t comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it had never seemed to make a difference.”
5. “I know it can’t be the same between us, but that doesn’t change the way I felt about you then.”
6. “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 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.”
7. “write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.”
8. “Early on, he’d learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn’t be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.”
9. “He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn’t dated since he’d been back here, hadn’t met anyone who remotely interested him. It was his own fault, he knew. There was something that kept a distance between him and any woman who started to get close, something he wasn’t sure he could change even if he tried. And sometimes in the moments right before sleep came, he wondered if he was destined to be alone forever.”
10. “I don’t want to live the rest of my life thinking about you and dreaming of what might have been. Stay with me, Allie.”
11. “It is a waste, for silence is pure.
Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are
comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great
paradox.”
12. “I can’t live my life happily knowing you’re with someone else. That would kill a part of me. What we have is rare. it’s too beautiful to just throw it away.”
13. “I continue to stare, my eyes missing nothing, remembering the moments we just shared together. But in all that time she does not look back, and I am haunted by the visions of her struggling with unseen enemies.
I sit by the bedside with an aching back and start to cry as I pick up the notebook. Allie does not notice. I understand, for her mind is gone.
A couple pages fall to the floor, and I bend over to pick them up. I am tired now, so I sit, alone and apart from my wife. And when the nurses come in they see two people they must comfort. A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.”
14. “Noah, wherever you are and whenever you read this, I love you. I
love you deeply, my husband. You are, and always have been, my
dream.
Allie”
15. “A pause. Then she said: “Tell me, Noah, what do you remember most from the summer we spent together?”
“All of it.”
“Anything in particular?”
“No,” he said.
“You don’t remember?”
He answered quietly. “No, it’s not that. It’s not what you’re thinking. I was serious when I said ‘all of it.’ I can remember every moment we were together, and in each or them there was something wonderful. I can’t pick any one time that meant more than any other.
The entire summer was perfect, the kind of summer everyone should have. How could I pick one moment over another?
“Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can’t control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That’s what it was like for me. I didn’t plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if you planned on falling in love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of use could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has happened only once, and that’s why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory.
I’ll never forget a single moment of it.”
Allie stare at him. No one had ever said anything lik that to her before. Ever. She didn’t know what to say and stayed silent, her face hot.”
16. “The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit with out speaking. This is the great paradox.”
17. “I know. You could never hid anything. Your eyes always gave you away. You had the most wonderful eyes I’d ever seen.” She lifted her head from his shoulder and looked discretely at him. When she spoke, her voice was barely above a whisper. “I think I loved you more that summer than I ever loved anyone.”
18. “She turned to face him. She reached over and touched his hand, hesitantly, gently, amazed that after all these years had somehow known exactly what she’d needed to hear. When their eyes locked, she once again realized how special he was.
And just for a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies in summer skies, she wondered if she was in love with him again.”
19. “Allie noticed it all, every sound, every thought. Her senses had come alive, invigorating her, and she felt her mind drifting through the last few weeks.”
20. “Young Noah: [humming] Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.
Young Allie: [laughing] You’re a terrible singer.
Young Noah: I know.
Young Allie: [laying her head on his shoulder] But I like this song.
[they continue dancing in the street to I’ll Be Seeing You]”
21. “She couldn’t think of anyone else who remotely resembled him. He was complicated, almost contradictory in so many ways, yet simple, a strange combination. On the surface he was a country boy, home from war, and he probably saw himself in those terms. Yet there was so much more to him. Perhaps it was the poetry that made him different, or perhaps it was the values his father had instilled in him, growing up. Either way, he seemed to savor life more fully than others appeared to, and that was what had first attracted her to him.”
22. “You are always here with me when I do so, at least in my heart, and it is impossible for me to remember a time when you were not a part of me. I do not know who I would have become had you never come back.
I love you, Allie. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope and every dream I’ve ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.
And, my darling, you will always be mine.
Noah”
23. “She turned the key, never taking her eyes from
him,”
24. “There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough”
25. “The romantics would call this a love story:the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it’s a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life.”
26. “That’s my sweetheart in there. I’m not living her. This is my home now. Your mother is my home.”
27. “It’s love- it’s as simple as that. It’s the most incredible thing I’ve ever seen.”
28. “And here it will end, one way or the other,” she whispered again”
29. “You were the best friend I ever had, Allie. I’d still like to be friends, even if you are engaged, and even if it is just for a couple of days.”
30. “He took a few steps before responding. “You are special,” he finally said, and the way e said it made her wonder if he wanted to add something else.”
31. “I think I loved you more that summer than I ever loved anyone.”
32. “I am still yours, Allie, my queen, my timeless beauty. You are, and always have been, the best thing in my life”
33. “We sit and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence.”
34. “The sky grew darker and the moon rose higher as the evening wore on. and without either or them being conscious of it, they began to regain the intimacy, the bond of familiarity, they had once shared.”
35. “It took strength to hold on to inner passion, and Noah had done that.”
40 quotes from “The Notebook”
1. “You have a talent that comes from inside you, from your heart, not your fingers. What you have can’t ever go away. It’s what other people only dream about. You’re an artist.”
2. “My daddy said
that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, the feeling just never goes away.”
3. “Dusk, I realized, is just an illusion, because the sun if either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are: there cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel, I remember wondering, to be always together, yet forever apart? I know the answer now. I know what it’s like to be day and night now: always together, forever apart.”
4. “And while he was doing those things, he thought about Allie and the love that was missing from both their lives.”
5. “But Noah, you’re not supposed to do this, and I can’t let you. So go back to your room.” Then smiling softly and sniffling and shuffling some papers on the desk, she says: “Me, I’m going downstairs for some coffee. I won’t be back to check on your for a while, so don’t do anything foolish.”
She rises quickly, touches my arm, and walks toward the stairs. She doesn’t look back, and suddenly I am alone. I don’t know what to think. I look at where she had been sitting and see her coffee, a full cup, still steaming, and once again I learn that there are good people in the world.”
6. “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we’ve lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we’ve found each other. And maybe each time, we’ve been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this good-bye is both a good-bye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.
When I look at you, I see your beauty and grace and know they have grown stronger with every life you have lived. And I know I have spent every life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you, but you, for your soul and mine must always come together. And then, for a reason neither of us understands, we’ve been forced to say good-bye.
I would love to tell you that everything will work out for us, and I promise to do all I can to make sure it does. But if we never meet again and this is truly good-bye, I know we will see each other again in another life. We will find each other again, and maybe the stars will have changed, and we will not only love each other in that time, but for all the times we’ve had before.”
7. “No, I mean with us. Do you think we would have made it?”
It took a moment for her to answer. “I don’t know, Noah. I really don’t, and you don’t either. We’re not the same people we were then.
We’ve changed. Both of us.”
She paused. He didn’t respond, and in the silence she looked towards the creek. She went on. “But yes, Noah, I think we would have. At least, I’d like to think we would have.”
8. “It was late afternoon and the last remnants of the day were fading. The sky was slowly changing color, and as I watched the sun go down I remember thinking about that brief, flickering moment when day suddenly turns into night. Dusk, I realized, is just an illusion, because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are; there cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel, I remember wondering, to always be together, yet forever apart? I know the answer now. I know what it’s like to be day and night now; always together, forever apart.”
9. “For with knowledge comes pain. To limit the pain I limit my answers.”
10. “Poetry wasn’t written to be analysed: it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”
11. “Although you may call me a dreamer, a fool, or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.”
12. “The stars were out in full, the crickets a little quieter. He had enjoyed talking to Allie and wondered what she’d thought about his life, hoping it would somehow make a difference, if it could.”
13. “There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”
14. “It’s just that sometimes our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.”
15. “Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in the evenings, especially after working hard all day.”
16. “We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created.”
17. “And some time after midnight on that clear October evening, Noah was overcome with longing. And if anyone had seen him, they would have seen what looked like an old man, someone who’d aged a lifetime in just a couple of hours. Someone bent over in his rocker with his face in his hands and tears in his eyes. He didn’t know how to stop them.”
18. “Only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”
19. “You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
20. “Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can’t control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That’s what it was like for me. I didn’t plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if you planned on falling in love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has happened only once, and that’s why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I’ll never forget a single moment of it.”
21. “You are Hannah, a lover of life, a strength to those who shared in your friendships. You are a dream, a creator of happiness, an artist who has touched a thousand souls. You’ve led a full life and wanted for nothing, because your needs are spiritual and you have only to look inside you. You are kind and loyal, and you are able to see the beauty where others do not. You are a teacher of wonderful lessons, a dreamer of better things.”
22. “It is powerful- a symbol, a circle- and I know, I know, there could never have been another one.”
23. “She saw in his eyes that he knew she was thinking about him. She liked the fact that he knew it, and she hoped he had been thinking about her as well.”
24. “That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.”
25. “Summer romances begin for all kinds of reasons, but when all is said and done, they have one thing in common. They are shooting stars, spectacular moments of light from heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity and in a flash there gone.”
26. “The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.”
27. “Day and night are linked in a way that few things are; there cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel, I remember wondering, to be always together, yet forever apart? Always together, forever apart.”
28. “For when it comes, she is gone, and sometimes I wonder whether she and I will ever love again.”
29. “The scariest thing about distance is you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget about you.”
30. “Dusk, I realized then, is just an illusion , because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are; there cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel, I remember wondering, to be always together, yet forever apart?”
31. “I know but no matter what I choose I have to live with it. For ever. I have to be able to go forward and not look back any more. Can you understand that?”
32. “I sit by the bed with an aching back, and start to cry as I pick up the notebook. I am tired now, so I sit, alone and apart from my wife. And when the nurses come in they see two people they must comfort. A woman shaking in fear and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.”
33. “It was a terrible thing for a girl to learn. That status is more important than feelings”
34. “Give a day’s work for a day’s pay. Anything less is stealing.”
35. “Our souls were one, if you must know and never shall they be apart; With splendid dawn, your face aglow I reach for you and find my heart.”
36. “It’s the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee, a sort of wager on my part.”
37. “In time of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you, and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry, and when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods of tears and despair and make it through the potholed streets of life.”
38. “I love you, Allie. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.”
39. “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, forever, you and me, every day…”
40. “I can remember every moment we were together, and in each of them there was something wonderful. I can’t really pick any one time that meant more than any other. The entire summer was perfect, the kind of summer everyone should have. How could I pick one moment over another?”
45 quotes from “The Notebook”
1. “workin’ day and night, slavin’ so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Eithet they crazy, or stupid, or tryin’ to forget.”
2. “You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. I love you, Allie, more than you can ever imagine. I always have, and I always will.”
3. “Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ … Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ’ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ ғᴇᴇʟ ɪᴛ!”
4. “It was a terrible thing for a girl to learn. That status is more important than feelings.”
5. “We are in the final minutes in the day of our lives, and the clock is ticking. Loudly. I wonder if I am the only one who can hear it.”
6. “True friendship exists when silence between two people is comfortable.”
7. “I’m strong and proud, and the luckiest man alive.”
8. “The sun has long since set and the thief is about to come, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. So I stare at her and wait and live a lifetime in these last remaining moments.”
9. “A pit rises in my stomach, hard and full. My breathing stops for a moment, then starts again, this time shallower. My mouth goes dry, and I feel my heart pounding. It is over, I know, and I am right.”
10. “You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”
11. “You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.
12. “money,war and time can change people”
13. “When I see you, my darling, in the morning before showers or in your studio covered with paint with your hair matted and tired eyes, I know that you are the most beautiful woman in the world.”
14. “I could be whatever you want. you just tell me what you want and I’m gonna be that for you.”
15. “I couldn’t sleep last night because I know that it’s over between us. I’m not bitter any more, 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.
16. “Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he’d always identified with poets.”
17. “Realizing that if she quit now, she would always wonder what would happened. And she didn’t think she could live with that.”
18. “Allison Nelson, twenty-nine years old and engaged, a socialite, searching for answers she needed to know, and Noah Calhoun, the dreamer, thirty-one, visited by the ghost that had come to dominate his life.”
19. “Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.”
20. “Give a day’s work for a day’s pay. Anything less is stealing.”
21. “He worked out his frustration with life on the creek every morning.”
22. “A dull ax is more dangerous than a sharp one.”
23. “The sun has come up and I am sitting by a window that is foggy with the breath of a life gone by.”
24. “I wonder if she knows I think she’s beautiful.”
25. “If not for my diaries, I would swear I had lived only half as long as I have. Long periods of my life seem to have vanished. And now I read the passages and wonder who I was when I wrote them, for I cannot remember the events of my life. There are times I sit and wonder where it all has gone.”
26. “The longer it goes on, the harder its going to be.”
27. “Alzheimer’s… It is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.”
28. “The first time u fall in love, it changes your life forever, and no matter how hard u try, the feeling never goes away. And no matter what u do, she’ll stay with u forever.”
29. “For silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”
30. “Silence is pure. Silence is Holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.”
31. “if your a bird, I’m a bird”
32. “You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. I love you, Allie, more than you can ever imagine. I always have, and I always will.”
33. “It is a contradiction-this creek- a hundred thousand years old but renewed with each rainfall.”
34. “Natural things gave back more than they took, and their sounds always brought him back to the way man was supposed to be.”
35. “You are, and always have been, my dream.”
36. “The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”
37. “Dusk, I realized then, is just an illusion, because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are; there cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time.”
38. “As he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he’d taken his next breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never again. She seemed that good, that perfect, while a summer wind blew through the trees.”
39. “I love you, Allie. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours. And, my darling, you will always be mine.
Noah”
40. “But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he’d taken his sext breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never find again.”
41. “You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
42. “But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had changed him forever. Perfect love did that to a person, and this had been perfect.”
43. “give a day’s work for a day’s pay. Anything less is stealing”
44. “He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely.”
45. “There is no reason to feel lost, for: Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost, No birth, identity, form — no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;… The body, sluggish, aged, cold — the embers left from earlier fires,… shall duly flame again.”
50 quotes from “The Notebook”
1. “Our lives can’t be measured by our final years”
2. “It’s a terrible thing to outlive your child, a tragedy I wish upon no one.”
3. “with knowledge comes pain.”
4. “Don’t choose the better guy, choose the guy who makes you a better woman.”
5. “So that’s the ghost you been running from.” “You know, the ghost, the memory. I been watchin’ you, workin’ day and night, slavin’ so hard you barely breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin’ to forget. And with you, I knew you were tryin’ to forget. I just didn’t know what.” – Gus”
6. “Silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”
7. “We will find each other again, and maybe the stars will have changed, and we will not only love each other in that time, but for all the times we’ve had before.”
8. “He especially liked to look at the trees and their reflections in the river. North Carolina trees are beautiful in deep autumn: greens, yellows, reds, oranges, every shade in between, their dazzling colours glowing with the sun.”
9. “Dusk is just an illusion, because the sun is either above the horizon or below it”
10. “There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”
11. “I don’t remember how it started or how I wanted it to be, but somehow it evolved into this.”
12. “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we’ve lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we’ve found each other. And maybe each time, we’ve been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a good-bye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come. When I look at you, I see your beauty and grace and know they have grown stronger with every life you have lived. And I know I have spent every life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you, but you, for your soul and mine must always come together. And then, for a reason neither of us understands, we’ve been forced to say good-bye. I would love to tell you that everything will work out for us, and I promise to do all I can to make sure it does. But if we never meet again and this is truly good-bye, I know we will see each other again in another life. We will find each other again, and maybe the stars will have changed, and we will not only love each other in that time, but for all the times we’ve had before.”
13. “I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day
spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.”
14. “Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.”
15. “only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox. Time”
16. “Dusk … is just an illusion, because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are; there cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel … to be always together, yet forever apart?”
17. “I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.”
18. “Sometimes he wondered if man’s instincts had changed in that time and always concluded that they hadn’t. At least in the basic, most primal ways. As far as he could tell, man had always been aggressive, always striving to dominate, trying to control the world and everything in it.”
19. “How would it feel, I remember wondering, to be always together, yet forever apart?”
20. “I read once that women love mysterious strangers.”
21. “Even the creek is still. In the darkness it looks like empty space, and I find that I’m drawn to its mystery.”
22. “He wants to be a doctor completely devoted to his patients and a man completely devoted to his family. He cannot be both, for there aren’t enough hours, but he has yet to learn this.”
23. “It’s just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.”
24. “Our lives can’t be measured by out final years…”
25. “and for a brief moment she felt fifteen again. Felt as she hadn’t in years, as if all her dreams could still come true.”
26. “Follow your heart,”
27. “I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough…”
28. You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.
29. I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.
30. They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.
31. You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.
32. Every great love starts with a great story…
33. In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life.
34. She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I’m sitting here, I think about her. There could never have been another.
35. If you’re a bird… I’m a bird…
36. She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.
37. Poetry, she thought, wasn’t written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.
38. You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the value of love. You showed me what it was like to care for another, and I am a better man because of it. I don’t want you to ever forget that.
39. I’ll be anything you want, just tell me what you want and I’ll be that.
40. “You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
41. “I think our love can do anything we want it to.”
42. “No matter what happens to us, everyday spent with you is the best day of my life.”
43. “The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.”
44. “Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?”
45. “The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it’s a little bit of both….”
46. “You are, and always have been, my dream.”
47. “I know I’ve spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.”
48. “Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.”
49. “And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don’t know how you knew, but you did, and you made it easier for me.”
50. “She made me who I am and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat.”
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Conclusions
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