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Love lines: The poetry of romance ... great lines from the movies

By Journal Staff
Created 02/14/2008 - 11:17am

Sean Maguire (Robin Williams), Good Will Hunting (1997)
…I’d ask you about love, you’d probably quote me a sonnet. But you’ve never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn’t know what it’s like to be her angel, to have that love for her, be there forever, through anything…"

Paul (Michael Rapaport), Beautiful Girls (1996)
"A beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you’ve been drinking Jack and Coke all morning. She can make you feel high full of the single greatest commodity known to man-promise. Promise of a better day. Promise of a greater hope. Promise of a new tomorrow. This particular aura can be found in the gait of a beautiful girl. In her smile, in her soul, the way she makes every rotten little thing about life seem like it’s going to be okay..."

Ricky Fitts (Wes Bentley), American Beauty (1999)
"Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world I feel like I can’t take it, like my heart's going to cave in."

Seth (Nicolas Cage), City of Angels (1998)
"I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it."

Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson), As Good As It Gets (1997)
"…I might be the only one who appreciates how amazing you are in every single thing that you do, and…how you say what you mean, and how you almost always mean something that's all about being straight and good. I think most people miss that about you, and I watch them, wondering how they can watch you bring their food, and clear their tables and never get that they just met the greatest woman alive. And the fact that I get it makes me feel good, about me."

Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis), The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
"…You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you."

Slim (Lauren Bacall), To Have and Have Not (1944)
"You know you don’t have to act with me, Steve. You don’t have to say anything, and you don’t have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow."

Harry Burns (Billy Crystal), When Harry Met Sally (1989)
"I love that you get cold when it’s 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle in your nose when you’re looking at me like I’m nuts. I love that after I spend day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it’s not because I’m lonely, and it’s not because it’s New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."

Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks), Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
"It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were suppose to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I’d ever known... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.

Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), Gone With the Wind (1939)
"No, I don’t think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how."

Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), Casablanca (1942)
"We’ll always have Paris."

Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise), Jerry Maguire (1996)
"You... complete me."



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