Noah Calhoun (Duke) – Character Quotes

— Would you just stay with me?
— Stay with you? What for? Look at us, we're already fightin!
— Well that's what we do, we fight... You tell me when I am being an arrogant son of a bitch and I tell you when you are a pain in the ass. Which you are, 99% of the time. I'm not afraid to hurt your feelings. You have like a 2 second rebound rate, then you're back doing the next pain-in-the-ass thing.
— So what?
— 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...

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.

O how your fingers drowse me! Your breath falls around me like dew. Your pulse lulls the tympans of my ears. I feel immerged from head to foot...

— Do you think... that our love... can create miracles?
— Yes, I do. That's what brings you back to me each time.
— Do you think our love... could take us away together?
— I think our love can do anything we want it to.

She had come back into his life like a sudden flame; blazing and streaming into his heart...

— I could be fun, if you want. I could be pensive, uhh... 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.
— You're dumb...
— I could be that.

— 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...
— What easy way? There is no easy way, no matter what I do, somebody gets hurt.

You know I want to give you all the things you want. But I can't. Because they're gone. They're broken.

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.

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.

I wrote you 365 letters. I wrote you everyday for a year!

— Why didn't you write me?
— What?
— Why? It wasn't over for me, I waited for you for seven years. But now it's too late.
...
— You wrote me?
— Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over!

— What are you gonna do?
— I don't know..
— We're back to that? Are we back there? What about the past couple of days? They happened, you know...
— I know that they happened, and they were wonderful. But they were also very irresponsible...