The Notebook Quotes (2004)
Young Allie: [lying in the middle of the street] What happens if a car comes?
Young Noah: We die
Allie: Did you write that?
Duke: No, that was Walt Whitman.
Allie: I think I knew him…
Duke: I think you did too.
Noah’s father (to Allie): Come on up here, darlin’. We could use a little sump’m around here besides the smell of lumber.
Noah: My Dearest Allie. I couldn’t sleep last night because I know that it’s over between us. I’m not bitter any more, because I know that what we had was real. And if in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I’ll smile at you with joy and remember how we spent the summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds, and that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I hope to give to you forever. I love you. I’ll be seeing you. Noah.
Duke:[Reading] She agreed with all her heart but couldn’t understand why, at the moment she said yes, Noah’s face came to mind. [In response to Lon asking her to marry him]
Duke: How’s it hangin’ Harry?
Harry: I keep trying to die, but they won’t let me.
Duke: Well, you can’t have everything.
Young Allie:This place is gigantic!
Young Noah: Yeah, a gigantic piece of crap!
Duke:Well thanks doc, but you know what they say, science goes only so far and then comes God.
Duke: I am nothing special; of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts, and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Young Noah: What am I gonna do in New York?
Young Allie: …Be with me.
Young Noah: [to Martha] You know I want to give you everything you want. But I can’t. It’s broken.
Noah (to Allie): If you’re a bird, I’m a bird.
Young Noah: Get in the water.
Young Allie: No! I’m scared.
Young Noah: [yelling] Get in the water, woman! Get in the water!
Young Allie: [looks at him, puzzled]
Young Noah: [calmly] No I’m sorry baby, please just get in.
Young Allie: [hesitates]
Young Noah: [once his friends start yelling again] GET IN THE WATER!
Noah:You’re bored! You’re bored and you know it! You wouldn’t be here if there weren’t something missing.
Allie: They fell in love, didn’t they?
Duke: Yes, they did.
Anne: ‘Cause I might know you a little better than you think. And I don’t want you waking up one morning thinking if you’d known everything you might have done something different.
Duke: That’s my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that’s where my home is.
Allie’s mother (about her sweetheart of 25 years ago, now a laborer shoveling gravel): Sometimes when I’m in the area, I just stop here and I watch him, trying to picture how different my life might have been. [she cries]
Young Noah: [raising fists in air] Dad! Uh… I stammered!
Frank: Stammered, stuttered… what’s the difference. You couldn’t understand a damn thing he said.
[Allie laughing]
Frank: Anyway I got him to read some poetry aloud and pretty soon his stuttering went away.
Young Allie: Well that’s a good idea that poetry.
Mrs. Hamilton:I didn’t spend 17 years of my life raising a daughter and giving her everything so she can throw it away on a summer romance.
Allie: Do you think that our love can create miracles?
Noah: Yes I do. That’s what brings you back to me each time.
Allie: Do you think our love can take us away together?
Noah: I think our love can do anything we want it to.
Young Noah:It’s not about keeping your promises, and it’s not about following your heart. It’s about security.
Young Allie: [walking out in the middle of an empty street] You’re gonna get run over.
Young Noah: By all the cars?
Young Allie: What easy way? There is no easy way, no matter what I do, somebody gets hurt.
Young Noah: Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants? Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do YOU want? What do you WANT?
Young Allie: It’s not that simple.
Young Noah: What… do… you… want? Whaddaya want?
Young Allie: I have to go now.
Young Allie: Why didn’t you write me? Why? It wasn’t over for me, I waited for you for seven years. But now it’s too late.
Young Noah: I wrote you 365 letters. I wrote you everyday for a year.
Young Allie: You wrote me?
Young Noah: Yes… it wasn’t over, it still isn’t over [kisses Allie]
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Duke: They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But dispite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.
(After she says there is no easy way he doesnt let her leave and says,)
Noah: It’s not gonna be easy. It’s going to be really hard, and we’re really going to have to work at it. But im willing to do that. Because i want you, I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.
Allie: do you think in another life i could be a bird,you know like rencarnation.
Noah:no
Allie:Say im a bird
Noah:no
Allie:Say it
Noah: your a bird
Allie:yeah now say your a bird too.
Noah:well if your a bird i’m a bird
Noah’s dad: Would you like some breakfast?
Young Allie: Now?
Noah: Dad, it’s 10 o’clock
Noah’s dad: Well what’s that got to do with it you can have pancakes any damn time you want
Allie: “why didn’t you write me? Why? It wasn’t over for me. I waited for you for seven years and now its too late!”
Noah: “I wrote you 365 letters! I wrote you every day for a year!”
Allie: “you wrote me?”
Noah: “Yes! It wasn’t over! It still isn’t over!”
young allie: what happens if a car comes?
young noah: we die?
young noah: “So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard. We’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? 30 years from now, 40 years from now? What’s it look like? If it’s with him, go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again. If I thought that’s what you really wanted. But don’t you take the easy way out.”
Young Allie – “You’re a terrible singer, but I love this song”
They didn’t agree on much. Infact they rarely agreed on anything. They fought all the time and they challenged each other everyday…But inspite of their differences, they had one important thing in common, they were crazy about each other.
Noah: Summer romances begin for all kinds of reasons, but when all is said and done, they have one thing in common. They’re shooting stars, a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, fleeting glimpse of eternity, and in a flash they’re gone.
Cutest scene-
Allie: do you think in another life i could be a bird,you know like rencarnation.
Noah:no
Allie:Say im a bird
Noah:no
Allie:Say it
Noah: your a bird
Allie:yeah now say your a bird too.
Noah:well if your a bird i’m a bird
follow your heart because even though it’s
on the left, it’s always right. – the notebook.
Allie: I love him.
Allie’s mother: You are 17 years old, you don’t know anything about love.
Allie: Oh, and you do? You don’t look at Daddy the way I look at Noah. You don’t touch or laugh. You don’t play… You don’t know anything about love!
you are every reason, every hope,
and every dream ive ever had, and
no matter what happens to us in the
future, everyday we are together
is the greatest day of my life. i will
always be yours, and darling, you will
always be mine.. — the notebook.
nothing is ever lost or can be lost
the body is sluggish, aged and cold
the ember is left from earlier fires until the flame again.
Allie: Why didn’t you write me? Why!? It wasn’t over for me. I waited for you for seven years. And now it’s too late!
Noah: I wrote you 365 letters. I wrote you every day for a year.
Allie: You wrote me?
Noah: Yes! It wasn’t over. Still isn’t over. [kisses her]
Noah: I want all of you,you and me,everyday
Allie: “Now say your a bird.”
Noah: “If your a bird..I’m a bird.”