Glass Man:
So that’s the one, there, the guy who raises his hand?
Amélie:
Yes.
Glass Man:
Is she in love with him?
Amélie:
Yes.
Glass Man: The time has come for her to take some real risks.
Amélie: Well yes, she’s thinking about it. She’s thinking of a stratagem.
Glass Man:
Yes, she likes stratagems, doesn’t she?
Amélie: Yes.
Glass Man: She’s a bit of a coward. That’s why I have trouble with her eyes.
– "The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain"
"We both had done the math.
Kelly added it all up and… knew she had to let me go. I added it up, and knew
that I had… lost her. ‘cos I was never gonna get off that island. I was gonna
die there, totally alone. I was gonna get sick, or get injured or something.
The only choice I had, the only thing I could control was when, and how, and
where it was going to happen. So… I made a rope and I went up to the summit,
to hang myself. I had to test it, you know? Of course. You know me. And the
weight of the log, snapped the limb of the tree, so I-I - , I couldn’t even
kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over *nothing*. And that’s when
this feeling came over me like a warm blanket. I knew, somehow, that I had to
stay alive. Somehow. I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason
to hope. And all my logic said that I would never see this place again. So
that’s what I did. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was
proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I
am. I’m back. In Memphis, talking to you. I have ice in my glass… And I’ve lost
her all over again. I’m so sad that I don’t have Kelly. But I’m so grateful
that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I gotta
keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide
could bring?"
– Tom Hanks ("Cast Away")
"You’re playing and you think everything is going fine. Then one thing
goes wrong. And then another. And another. You try to fight back, but
the harder you fight, the deeper you sink. Until you can’t move… you
can’t breathe… because you’re in over your head. Like quicksand."
– Keanu Reeves (’The Replacements’)
"… sometimes you have something you need to say but you can’t, because the words won’t come out or you get scared or you feel stupid. So, if you could write a song and sing it, then you could say what you need to say and it would be beautiful and people would listen and you wouldn’t make a complete idiot out of yourself. But all of us can’t be songwriters, so some of us will never be able to say what we’re thinking or what we want other people to know we’re thinking, so we’ll never be able to get the chance to make things right again… "
– Alexis Bledel (’Gilmore Girls’)
