You've got mail

I love good movie quotes but for some reason the holidays make e think of quotes from the movie 'You've got mail'. I'd like to share a few of my favorites from this last Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks romantic comedy.

1. "Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life. Well, not small, but valuable. And sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void. "
2. "The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall. Decaf. Cappuccino. "
3. "Your daring to march into the unknown with...nothing."
4. "Kevin, this is possibly the most adorable creature I've ever been in contact with and if she turns out to be as good looking as a mailbox, I would be crazy enough to turn my life upside down and marry her."
5. "But the truth is....I'm heart broken. I feel as though a part of me has died and my mother has died all over again and nothing will ever make it right."
6. "Joe Fox: You know, sometimes I wonder... Kathleen Kelly: What? Joe Fox: Well... if I hadn't been "Fox Books" and you hadn't been "The Shop Around the Corner," and you and I had just met... Kathleen Kelly: I know. Joe Fox: Yeah, yeah. I would've asked for your number. And I wouldn't have been able to wait 24 hours before calling you up and saying, Hey, how about... oh, how about some coffee, or drinks, or dinner, or a movie... for as long as we both shall live? "
7. "Brinkley is my dog. He loves the streets of New York as much as I do. Although he likes to eat bits of pizza and bagels off the sidewalk and I prefer to buy them. "
8. "What will NY152 say today I wonder. I turn on my computer. I wait impatiently as it connects. I go online, and my breath catches in my chest until I hear three little words: You've got mail. I hear nothing. Not even a sound on the streets of New York, just the beating of my own heart. I have mail. From you. "
9. "Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today, I saw one. It got on at 42nd, and off at 59th, where, I assume it was going to Bloomingdales to buy a hat that will turn out to be a mistake - as almost all hats are. "
10. "Kathleen. YOU, are a lone reed. You are a lone reed, standing tall, waving boldly in the corrupt sands of commerce. "
11. "When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does. "
12. "Have you ever become the worst version of yourself. That a pandora's box of all the hate, spite and condescension has sprung open? Someone upsets you and instead of walking away... you zing them. "Hello it's Mr Nasty". I'm sure you have no idea what I'm talking about..."
13. " Soon it will be something really depressing. Like a 'Baby Gap'. "
14. "The odd thing about this form of communication is that you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings."

All of these quotes make me feel warm and fuzzy inside. I also just love getting anysort of mail, it makes me feel like people are thinking about me and it makes me feel loved, whethere it's snail mail or email. This is a great movie to just curl up and watch by yourself and just have a good cry. The word that keeps coming to mind is melancholy. When I'm melancholy, I watch this movie. Maybe I'll watch it tonight.

Oh, also there is a song at the end of the movie that just makes my heart flutter.

"Funny how I feel more myself with you Than anybody else that I ever knew I hear it in your voice, see it in your face You've become the memory I can't erase You could have been anyone at all A stranger falling out of blue I'm so glad it was you Wasn't in the plan not that I could see Suddenly a miracle came to me Safe within your arms I can say what's true Nothing in the world I would keep from you You could have been anyone at all An old friend calling out of blue I'm so glad it was you Words can hurt you if you let them People say them and forget them Words can promise words can lie But your words make me feel like I can fly You could have been anyone at all\ And let that catches me when I fall I'm so glad it was you"