"mama always said, 'life is like...'"

okay, just kidding. i'm not going to write a blog on forrest gump. but, it has come to my attention (and probably only to mine, since no one else really reads this) that my most recent blogs have been somewhat serious. while i am a serious person in nature, i also can be fun and free and...frolic? is that even a word. i don't even know.

so, my mission for this blog is to chronicle some of my favorite movie quotes. get excited!

1. "sadness is easier because it's surrender...i say, make time to dance alone with one hand waving free."

--elizabethtown

i LOVE this quote, and this movie. even though it is weird in parts, and somewhat dismal, it is a movie that always makes me happy. every time i see precious claire click her imaginary camera, it warms my heart. and of course, you can't forget the world's largest flea market scene...love it.

2. "maybe we're lying here because you don't wanna be standing somewhere else."

--serendipity

another girl movie, probably my first favorite romantic chick flick. i like it because it's just cheesy enough, but not too much. also, there's some great sardonic humor and i love, love, love the role of destiny. wonderfulness.

3. "Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.

Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going on. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?

Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."

--Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

i love, love, love lord of the rings. and this quote. and the beauty of the light that passes even though darkness....such good movies, and books.

4. "am i that transparent? i want you, i need you, oh baby. oh baby."

--10 things i hate about you

easily the wittest and most sarcastic teen movie ever produced. love it.

5. "Mr. Tumnus: He's not a tame lion.

Lucy: No...but he is good."

--the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe

such beautiful symbolism in this movie...yay symbolism!