Unconsciousness is trying to steal me away. My eyelids are fluttering like insect wings. When I touch the area on my forehead that’s throbbing I feel a slight bump and a dampness. I ought to be thankful-I’ve had it worse. I fell from the cliffs, for the fourth time this month. What happened? I want to ask-how stupid is that? I know exactly what happened. In the distance I hear voices and a flurry of activity. Shelves of sweets wash toward me, a freezer glides closer as if carried on the waves. Because every time I believe I’ve got a chance. I teeter, lose my balance and thrash about with my arms because I refuse to believe it’s happening. It sounds like the staccato of rain drumming against a windowpane. Above me, slate-gray clouds drift across the sky that’s still the color of lavender, but only just. Don’t look down, I tell myself as I put my head back and try to breathe. And we have these long talks about you and how you’re doing, which she sort of knows, but I tell her anyway.A panic attack is like standing on the cliff edge. ![]() I mean, the whole idea of an afterlife … But now, I don’t know. Jonah: “A ho! A ho! My dad’s been captured by a ho!” 19Īnnie: “When a man is a widower, why do we say he was widowed? Why don't we say he was widower-ed?” 20 And then after a while, I won’t have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while.” 18 Then after a while, I won’t have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breathe in and out. ![]() Sam: “I’m gonna get out of bed every morning … breathe in and out all day long. Woman on airplane: “Don’t you just hate flying?”Īnnie: “Yes, I do, and I just told the most terrible one to the man I’m about to marry. I just want somebody I can have a decent conversation with over dinner.” 16 Sam: “I’m not looking for a mail-order bride. What are you gonna do when you get up there? Spit off the top?” Sam: “I am not going to New York to meet some woman who could be a crazy, sick lunatic. Walter (Bill Pullman): “Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it.” 13 Sam: “Of what? Her first name could be Doctor.” 12 Jonah Baldwin (Ross Malinger): “Talk to her, dad. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match.”Ĭo-worker: “It’s easier to be killed by a terrorist than it is to find a husband over the age of 40.”īecky: “That’s right, it’s not true. You don’t want to be in love, you want to be in love in a movie.” 8īecky: “Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it’s our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.” 9ĭennis Reed (David Hyde Pierce): “Annie, when you’re attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. It was…”īecky (Rosie O'Donnell): “.a movie. That’s your problem. They knew it! Time, distance nothing could separate them because they knew. What do they call it when everything intersects?”Īnnie: “Now that was when people knew how to be in love. Jay (Rob Reiner): “Well, this is fate! She’s divorced, we don’t want to redo the cabinets, and you need a wife. It was like magic.” 5Īnnie Reed: “You make a million decisions that mean nothing, and then one day you order take-out and it changes your life.” 6 I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew it. It was like coming home, only to no home I’d ever known. ![]() Sam Baldwin (Hanks): “It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together, and I knew it.
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