The Notebook 2004 quotes, page 2

39 quotes · 3 characters
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Characters
Duke James Garner · 28 quotes
Noah Calhoun Ryan Gosling · 16 quotes

Most scenes together: Allie Hamilton & Duke (20), Noah Calhoun & Allie Hamilton (12), Noah Calhoun & Duke (11)

The Notebook quotes

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Young Allie
[lying in the middle of the street]

What happens if a car comes?

Young Noah

We die.

Young Noah

I see you got my letters, finally. What are you gonna do, Al?

Young Allie

I don't know.

Young Noah

We're back to that? Are we back there? What about the past couple of days? They happened, you know.

Young Allie

I know that they happened, and they were wonderful. But they were also very irresponsible. I have a fianc? waiting for me at a hotel who's going to be crushed when he finds out what I did.

Young Noah

So you make love to me, and go back to your husband. Was that your plan? Was that a test I didn't pass?

Young Allie

No, I made a promise to a man. He gave me a ring and I gave him my word.

Young Noah

And your word is shot to hell now, don't you think?

Young Allie

I don't know. I'll find out when I talk to him.

Young Noah

This is not about keeping your promise, and it's not about following your heart. It's about security.

Young Allie

What is that supposed to mean?

Young Noah

Money!

Young Allie

What are you talking about?

Young Noah

He has a lot of money.

Young Allie

Now I hate you, you smug bastard.

Young Noah

Well, I hate you. If you leave here, I hate you.

Young Allie

Have you been paying attention to anything that's happening?

Young Noah

I guess not, I think I must have misread all of those signals.

Young Allie

Well I guess you did!

Young Noah

You're bored! You're bored and you know it! You wouldn't be here if there wasn't something missing.

Young Allie

You arrogant son of a bitch.

Young Noah

Would you just stay with me?

Young Allie

Stay with you? What for? Look at us, we're already fighting.

Young Noah

Well, that's what we do! We fight! You tell me when I'm being an arrogant son of a bitch and I tell you when you're being a pain in the ass, which you are 99% of the time. I'm not afraid to hurt your feelings. They have, like, a two second rebound rate, then you're back doing the next pain-in-the-ass thing.

Young Allie

So what?

Young Noah

So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. And 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, forever, you and me, every day. Can you do something for me? Please? Will you just picture your life for me? Thirty years from now? Forty years from now? What's it look like? If it's with that guy, 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

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? Goddammit, what do you want?

Young Allie

I have to go.

Young Noah

I'm Noah Calhoun.

Young Allie

So?

Young Noah

So it's really nice to meet you.

Edmond

Allie, who is this guy?

Young Allie

I don't know, Noah Calhoun.

Young Noah

I'm not usually like this, I'm sorry.

Young Allie

Oh yes you are.

Young Noah

I could be fun, if you want. I could be pensive, smart, supersticious, brave. And I, uhh, I can be light on my feet. I could be whatever you want. You just tell me what you want, and I'm gonna be that for you.

Young Allie

You're dumb.

Young Noah

I could be that.

Young Noah
[Allie rolls her eyes and walks away]

Come on, one date. What's it gonna hurt?

Young Allie

I don't think so.

Young Noah

Well, what can I do to change your mind?

Young Noah

We can just finish out the summer and see what happens then.

Young Allie

Please don't do this. You don't mean it. Well, if you're going to do it, why wait until the summer ends? Why don't you do it right now?

Young Allie
[pushes Noah against the car]

Huh? C'mon. Do it! Do it!

Young Allie
[repeatedly pushes Noah, starts hitting Noah]

You know what? I'm gonna do it! It's over. Okay? It's over.

Young Noah
[opens his arms for a hug]

Come here.

Young Allie

Don't touch me! I hate you! I hate you!

Young Noah

OK, I'm going.

Young Allie

Why don't you just go then?

Young Allie
[pushes Noah in the car]

Get out! Leave!

Young Allie
[kicks Noah's car]

Go! No, no, just wait a minute. We're not really breaking up, are we? Come on. This is just a fight we're having and tomorrow it will be like it never happened, right?
[Noah drives away]

Young Noah

What am I gonna do in New York?

Young Allie

Be with me.

Young Noah
[Hanging from the ferris wheel]

Will you go out with me?

Young Allie

What? No.

Young Noah

No?

Young Allie

No.

Young Noah

Why not?

Young Allie

I don't know, because I don't want to.

Young Noah

OK, then you leave me no other choice.

Young Allie
[Let's his left hand fall to his side] [Screaming]

AHHHH!

Young Noah

I'm gonna ask you one more time. Will you or will you not go out with me? Goddammit my hand's slipping.

Young Allie

OK, OK. Fine, I'll go out with you.

Young Noah

No, don't do me any favors.

Young Allie

No, no I want to.

Young Noah

You do?

Young Allie

Yes!

Young Noah

Say it.

Young Allie

I wanna go out with you!

Young Noah

Say it again.

Young Allie

I WANNA GO OUT WITH YOU!

Young Noah
[Lifting his left hand from his side and grabbing onto the bar]

Alright, fine, we'll go out.

Young Allie
[Noah is about to lie down in the street intersection]

You're gonna get run over!

Young Noah
[Looks around for oncoming cars, there aren't any in sight]

Uhh, by all the cars?

[His last letter to Allie]

My Dearest Allie. I couldn't sleep last night because I know that it's over between us. I'm not bitter anymore, 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.

I am no one special. Just 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 in one respect, I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived. I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and for me, that has always been enough.

It was an improbable romance. He was a country boy, she was from the city. She had the world at her feet while he didn't have two dimes to rub together.

It was real, wasn't it? You and me. Such a long time ago, we were just a couple of kids. But we really loved each other, didn't we?

Look guys, that's my sweetheart in there. I'm not leaving her, this is my home now. Your mother is my home."

Most of the time I have all these thoughts bouncin' around in my head. But with a brush in my hand, the world just gets kinda quiet.

Remember that time in the park! Everything felt so real.. but now I know that life is just an imagination, a pure imagination, and childhood dream shot to tears, due to the anxiety of tomorrow.