Some conversations make sense to me. Like real one.
This film leads me to a sad beginning, but it's strong enough to convince me having faith of a better tomorrow at the end of the film.
A better of tomorrow for every problem, every disappointment, and of course every skepticism of love.
I'll start with this, the last message of Gerry, Holly's deceased husband who wrote her 10 stages letters giving her strength to let him go after a brain tumor attack. (How creative he is!) I bold the most important messages (or the suitable ones) in each memorable conversation or quote.
1. Letter below LITERALLY tears me down.
[reading Gerry's letter] Dear Holly, I don't have much time. I don't mean literally, I mean you're out buying ice cream and you'll be home soon. But I have a feeling this is the last letter, because there is only one thing left to tell you. It isn't to go down memory lane or make you buy a lamp, you can take care of yourself without any help from me. It's to tell you how much you move me, how you changed me. You made me a man, by loving me Holly. And for that, I am eternally grateful... literally. If you can promise me anything, promise me that whenever you're sad, or unsure, or you lose complete faith, that you'll try to see yourself through my eyes. Thank you for the honor of being my wife. I'm a man with no regrets. How lucky am I. You made my life, Holly. But I'm just one chapter in yours. There'll be more. I promise. So here it comes, the big one. Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Watch out for that signal, when life as you know it ends. P.S. I will always love you.
2. A single hopeless Holly Kennedy who really loves her mom sometimes gives up of life.
Holly Kennedy: Dear Gerry, you said you wanted me to fall in love again, and maybe one day I will. But there are all kinds of love out there. This is my one and only life. And it's a great and terrible and short and endless thing, and none of us come out of it alive. I don't have a plan... except, it's time my mom laughed again. She has never seen the world. She has never seen Ireland. So, I'm taking her back where we started. Maybe now she'll understand. I don't know how you did it, but you brought me back from the dead. I'll write to you again soon. P.S... Guess what?
3. There she is! A fussy girl with expressive phrases herself doesn't even understand.
Holly Kennedy: All I know is, if you don't figure out this something, you'll just stay ordinary, and it doesn't matter if it's a work of art, or a taco, or a pair of socks! Just create something... new, and there it is, and it's you, out in the world, outside of you, and you can look at it, or hear it, or read it, or feel it... and you know a little more about... you. A little bit more than anyone else does... Does that make any sense at all?
Gerry Kennedy: Yeah... you're saying you want to paint socks.
4. This part is perfect. I'm in favor! Check the bold ones, they are totally really really true! There are times you incidentally fall for someone without you realizing it but then it feels like you're invisible for him.
Daniel Connelly: You've been thinking about me?
Holly Kennedy: Because you've been a real friend through all this.
Daniel Connelly: Have you ever thought of me in the nude?
Holly Kennedy: [laughing] No.
Daniel Connelly: Not even with my shirt off?
Holly Kennedy: [still laughing] Gerry, stop it.
Daniel Connelly: Daniel, I'm Daniel, are you ever gonna feel the way you felt about Gerry with anyone else, or do you need one of your letters to figure that out?
[He leaves]
Holly Kennedy: Where are you going?
Daniel Connelly: [He comes back] I really like you, but I can't be the Invisible Man. I'm tired of being the shoulder, I want to be another body part. I want to use up a woman so she's ruined for all other men.
Holly Kennedy: You don't want to do that.
Daniel Connelly: No, I don't want to do that. I want to date a woman who actually likes men, I want to be somebody's Gerry.
[He gets up to leave]
Daniel Connelly: Honestly, I don't blame you. It's not your fault, it's mine. I didn't plan on liking you, it just sort of happened that way, I'm sorry about that.
5. Here we are, girls. Here we are with our absolutely-no-idea-of-what-we-want fact.
[Daniel has agreed to leave Holly alone in the bar, but then he returns at once]
Daniel Connelly: I don't meant to throw this at you from left field, but what do women want? I mean, I can't figure it out. They want us to ask; they, they don't want us to ask; they want us to make a move, not make a move. They want us to be on bottom; they want us to be on top. Use hair products, don't use hair products. What do you people want?
Holly Kennedy: I'll tell you. But you have to promise not to say I told you.
Daniel Connelly: I, I swear.
Holly Kennedy: Because it's a sacred secret.
Daniel Connelly: A sacred secret.
Holly Kennedy: You ready?
Daniel Connelly: Yeah.
Holly Kennedy: You sure?
Daniel Connelly: I think so.
Holly Kennedy: [whispering] We have absolutely no idea what we want.
Daniel Connelly: I knew it!
6. Sometimes someone walks into your life to leave you behind. When it comes to be, stop waiting.
Patricia: You know the worst thing for a parent... second after losing a child? Watching your child head for the same life you had. You can't stop it. It's a terrible, helpless feeling. Makes you angry all the time. And I've been angry. For a very long time. I'm exhausted.
Holly Kennedy: Do you think we'll ever see dad again?
Patricia: No sweetheart, never. So you have to stop waiting.
7. I bet there are moments you truly deeply in love with somebody you can't wake up without his face around.
Gerry Kennedy: [calms Holly] Every morning I still wake up and the first thing I want to do is to see your face.
8. Doesn't matter you're a girl or boy, of course at least once in your life ever you offer an readable flirt signal. Oh well, I do too.
Daniel Connelly: Look, if you ever just wanna get out... just do anything, just... I'll wait for your call. And just so you know, I'm not looking for "a thing" right now. I'm just flirting in good faith.
Holly Kennedy: I appreciate that.
9. This is it!! It's been years (well, it was so bad till it takes years) and I don't feel him anymore.
Holly Kennedy: [hugs Daniel] It's been a year. I don't feel him anymore. I feel he's gone. He's really gone!
10. This what strengthens me the most.
“Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember, shoot for the moon.”
― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
11. But unfortunately, for now the heart and its signal leads me to someone I can't hug whenever I want to.
“what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted”
― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
12. When I'm in doubt with my own feeling, I hold this on.
“...God leads you to it and takes you through it.”
― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
13. Here I am appreciating the lovely one who walked and left my life. He changed me a lot by his presence and made me a deserved better person to love for my true soul mate.
“Sometimes there is only one thing left to say, P. S. I Love You....”
― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
14. No body's perfect. The life itself is.
“She was a woman who made mistakes, who sometimes cried on a Monday morning or at night alone in bed. She was a woman who often became bored with her life and found it hard to get up for work in the morning. She was a woman who more often than not had a bad hair day, who looked in the mirror and wondered why she couldn't just drag herself to the gym more often; she was a woman who sometimes questioned what reason had she to live on this planet. She was a woman who sometimes just got things wrong.”
― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
15. Am still figuring out who'll be my true soul mate.
“Finding someone you love and loves you back is a wonderful feeling. But finding a true soulmate is an even better feelin. A soulmate is someone who understands you like no other will be there for you forever no matter what.”
― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
16. When life gets harder and you can't keep it yourself.
“She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.”
― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
17. Yes, I miss this.
“Holly smiled weakly. Gerry would know exactly how she was feeling, he would know exactly
what to say and he would know exactly what to do. He would give her one of his famous hugs
and all her problems would melt away. She grabbed a pillow from her bed and hugged it tight. She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.”
― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
18. I want to grow old with that kind of man.
“We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone. Someone who doesn't drive you to commit murder or doesn't humiliate you beyond repair.”
― Cecelia Ahern
19. Wish the one to spend the rest of my life will soon be found.
“Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives. ”
― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
20. Isn't this quote beautiful?
“Some people go through life searching and never find their soul mates. They never do. You and I did, we just happened to have them for a shorter period of time than we hoped for. It's sad, but it's life. So you go to this ball, Holly and you embrace the fact that you had someone whom you loved and who loved you back.”
― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
21. Don't lose faith. It's all you got.
“We haven’t lost everything, if we haven’t lost our hope.”
― Cecelia Ahern, PS, I Love You
22. She's just a moody girl and there she is.
“I'm a million different things every day of the week.”
― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
23. Be thankful, everybody's life is cool! Yours also.
“She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.”
― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
24. I bold the "whatever lay ahead, she knew she would open her heart where it led" because I'm now opening my heart to someone I haven't (but try to) sure is the right one.
“On the other hand, she was a women with a million happy memories, who knew what it was like to experience true love and who was ready to experience more life, more love and make new memories. Whether it happened in ten months or ten years, Holly would obey Gerry's final message. Whatever lay ahead, she knew she would open her heart and follow where it led.
In the meantime, she would just live.”
― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
25. To end up today's blog post, here is the summary. I know, for whatever reason, all the things in my life won't go away. The memories stay. But the lesson should be learned and the future should be better after recalling those.
“So many objects, so many memories. Each was being labelled and packed away in bags just as it was in her mind. To be stored in an area that would sometime be called upon to teach and help in future life.”
― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
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