365 films: Day 12 → Pirates of the Caribbean on Stranger Tides

Jack Sparrow: ”Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.”

365 films: Day 11 → The Holiday

“I have found that almost everything ever written about love to be true. Shakespeare said, “Journeys end in lovers’ meeting.” What an extraordinary thought. Personally, I have not experienced anything remotely close to that but I’m more than willing to believe Shakespeare had. I suppose I think about love more than anyone really should. I’m constantly amazed by its sheer power to alter and define our lives. It was Shakespeare who also said, “Love is blind.” Now, that is something I know to be true. For some, quite inexplicably, love fades. For others, love is simply lost. But then, of course, love can also be found. Even if just for the night. And then there’s another kind of love. The cruelest one. The one that almost kills its victims. It’s called unrequited love. Of that, I am an expert. Most love stories are about people who fall in love with each other. But what about the rest of us? What about our stories? Those of us who fall in love alone. We are the victims of the one-sided affair. We are the cursed of the loved ones. We are the unloved ones. The walking wounded. The handicapped without the advantage of a great parking space. Yes, you are looking at one such individual. And I have willingly loved that man for over three miserable years. The absolute worst years of my life. The worst Christmases, the worst birthdays. New Year’s Eves brought in by tears and Valium. These years I’ve been in love have been the darkest days of my life all because I’m cursed by being in love with a man who does not, and will not, love me back. Oh, God, just the sight of him. Heart pounding, throat thickening, absolutely can’t swallow. All the usual symptoms.”

365 films: Day 10 → Alice In Wonderland

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.” - Alice

365 films: Day 9 → Winter’s Bone

“I’d be lost without the weight of you two on my back. I ain’t going anywhere.”

365 films: Day 7 → In Time

“How can you live with yourself watching people die right next to you?”

365 films: Day 7 → The Last Song

“Love is fragile, and we aren’t always its best caretakers. We just muddle through it and do the best we can and hope this fragile thing survives, against all odds.”

365 films: Day 6 → Atonement

“So, my sister and Robbie were never able to have the time together they both so longed for… and deserved. Which ever since I’ve… ever since I’ve always felt I prevented. But what sense of hope or satisfaction could a reader derive from an ending like that? So in the book, I wanted to give Robbie and Cecilia what they lost out on in life. I’d like to think this isn’t weakness or… evasion… but a final act of kindness. I gave them their happiness.” - Briony

365 films: Day 5 → One Day

“Whatever happens tomorrow, we’ve had today.”