• in the mood for love (2001) dir. wong kar-wai

“He remembers those vanished years. As though looking through a dusty window pane, the past is something he could see, but not touch. And everything he sees is blurred and indistinct.”

“It is a restless moment. She has kept her head lowered... to give him a chance to come closer. But he could not, for lack of courage. She turns and walks away.”

“- I didn't think you'd fall in love with me. - I didn't either. I was only curious to know how it started. Now I know. Feelings can creep up just like that.”

“- Why did you call me at the office today? -I had nothing to do. I wanted to hear your voice.”

• chungking express (1994) dir. wong kar-wai

“- Where do you want to go? - Doesn't matter. Wherever you want to take me.”

“If memories could be canned... would they also have expiry dates?”

“If my memory of her has an expiration date, let it be 10,000 years.”

• like crazy (2011) dir. drake doremus

“But the things that we have with each other, I don't have with any other person. With any other human being apart from you.”

“I didn't realize it would sometimes be more than whole. That the wholeness was a rather luxurious idea. Because it's the halves that halve you in half. Didn't know. Don't know about the in-between bits. The gory bits of you and gory bits of me.”

“– It's my chair. – Mmmm. Look underneath.

– It's your first one. I love you... like crazy.”

patience.

to you who made me see things i could never see alone.

with jacob gone, whose eyes to compare with the morning sun?

• little women (2019) dir. greta gerwig

“You know, I just feel like, women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. And I’m so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. I’m so sick of it! But– I’m so lonely!”