All you need is love...cont'd

Emma is one of my favorite movies of all time. Such a great love story. Emma and Mr. Knightley are perfect for each other. Just look at them:



One of my favorite scenes from the movie:



The man himself: I think I like Mr. Knightley better than Mr. Darcy because he is more real...


Great quotes from the book and movie:

"Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them...." Chapter 1

"I cannot make speeches, Emma . . . If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more." volume 3, chapter 13

"I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to "Yes," she ought to say "No" directly.'" Chapter 7

"It darted through her with the speed of an arrow that Mr. Knightley must marry no one but herself!" Chapter 47

"I rode through the rain! I'd - I'd ride through worse than that if I could just hear your voice telling me that I might, at least, have some chance to win you." Mr. Knightley-1996 movie

Mr. Knightely :"Emma, you didn't ask me to contribute a riddle.
Emma Woodhouse: "Your entire personality is a riddle, Mr. Knightley. I thought you overqualified."

Emma Woodhouse: "Now I need not call you Mr. Knightley. I may call you *my* Mr. Knightley"

Mr Knightley: "Maybe it is our imperfections which make us so perfect for one another."

They had it right...

The Beatles. They had it right. All you need is love. In honor of Valentines Day and February in general, I feel the need to post about LOVE. Love has been around FOREVER. Like, Adam and Eve and before...SO I thought I would post some famous couples.

ROMEO & JULIET

Aren't they lovely and tragic?

The only movie version I've seen was with Leo DiCaprio...it was good but I prefer the live play.



Some famous love lines from them:
"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!/ For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night." -ROMEO William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 1.5

"O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name.
Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love
And I'll no longer be a Capulet." -JULIET William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 2.2

"See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O that I were a glove upon that hand,
that I might touch that cheek!" -ROMEO William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 2.2

Beautiful, Shakespeare. Nice work.

MR. DARCY & ELIZABETH BENNETT

They are perfect. (The pictures are from the BBC with Colin Firth...I'm not a fan of Keira Knightley)


"She is tolerable, I suppose, but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time with me." (Mr Darcy to Mr. Bingley about Elizabeth Bennet; Ch. 3)

My favorite part of the movie...

"Your conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you. My mind was more agreeably engaged. I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow." (Darcy to Miss Bingley; Ch. 6)

"In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." (Darcy; Ch. 35)


"From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry." (Elizabeth; Ch. 35)

"You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever." (Darcy; Ch. 58)

There are more...but I gotta stop.


To be continued...

Love is hard

I always thought that when I fell in love it would be easy. Boy meets girl, they go on date and BANG. They love each other. Well, maybe it's not quite like that. Relationships require time and patience and hard work. Because now it's not just me. It's me and another person. 2 people. 2 people who have grown up in different environments, with different families, doing different things. I'm not saying that differences are bad. I think that differences pull people together.

But how do we do it? How do we not let our differences become road blocks? When are the differences TOO DIFFERENT?! I don't know. I wish I did, because if I did I would not be here right now. Stuck in Limbo Land. Limbo Land is not an ideal vacation spot. It is a place full of uncertainty, frustration, sadness, frustration, unknowns and it sits right on edge of giving up.

But, I don't want to give up...not yet, not ever. I must keep holding on. Maybe eventually it will all be better. Maybe one day I will wake up and be a changed, better person. PERFECT. A perfect person who can be confident in their own shoes. Someone who can make others feel comfortable. Someone who brings out the best in others. Someone that can let loose. Someone who can have a good time, laugh, cry and not WORRY.

Worry is bad. I hate worrying. It's stressful. What should I do? How can I make this right? All my best efforts keep making things worse...How do I fix this problem? How many times will it take for me to get it right?

I guess I'll keep going. I guess I won't give up or give in...starting tomorrow. Today, I just want to cry.