The best quotes from The Best of Me

Love said about those who loved, much more than about those who were loved.

But she knew that love was chaotic, like life. Love took the path which men could neither anticipate nor understand. Often she left a trace of desolation and regret.

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

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.

You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.

Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was like for me. I didn't plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if you planned on falling in love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has happened only once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've 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.

Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other.

It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

It may seem as the hardest thing in the world, but you have to forget the guy who forgot about you.

A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair.
I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare.
I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme.
I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry.
I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call.
But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you.
Not even close,
not even a little bit,
not even at all!

Don't let anyone, ever, make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.

That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.

If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

Will Traynor: "Will you stay?"
Lou Clark: "For as long as you want me to."

I just wanna be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress.

There's no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love, well, you haven't lived your life at all.

I've felt loved, and that's all that matters. So, never mind favorites. You're allowed to have one. The point is, you've been mine.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Do not squander time. That is the stuff life is made of.

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.

If we are all alone, then that's also somthing we have together.

I have loved her even when I hated her... only married couples'll understand that one.

Liz: "Hot guy from the bar who hit on you is here."
Hannah: "Liz, I'm studying."
Liz: "You should be studying the ceiling of his bedroom!"

That's L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.

Jazz is conflict and it's compromise, and it's new every time. It's brand new every night. It's very, very exciting. And it's dying. It's dying on the vine. And the world says, "Let it die. It had its time." Well, not on my watch!

I think it's the ending of a relationship, that's what makes a love story so memorable.

I can't believe he's gone. It's like I close my eyes and I see us meeting for the first time. And I remember every word that he said to me. I remember every expression on his face. And then I open my eyes and it's like... Did I, like, just dream our entire relationship up? Did I dream him up?

Where are his glasses? He can't see without his glasses!

Thomas J.: "Vada?"
Vada: "Yeah?"
Thomas J.: "Would you think of me?"
Vada: "For what?"
Thomas J.: "Well, if you don't get to marry Mr. Bixler."
Vada: "I guess."

Here's looking at you, kid.

Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.

After all, I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.

Anna: "You know what they say about men with big feet."
William: "No, I don't, actually. What's that?"
Anna: "Big feet... large shoes."

"Time heals all wounds."
"But every wound leaves a scar."

Most people have all the time in the world. They'll live to be eighty or older. But they don't use the time they have. They waste it on the couch, in front of the TV, or at the computer. They don't have time for the things that make life really worth living: other people, their friends and family, the friendship of a dog, the beauty of nature… They've lost all mindfulness.

Nothing's gonna save our lifes, so... we're breathing borrowed air.

This whole time I've been living for my treatments, instead of doing my treatments so that I can live. I wanna live!

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.