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Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist QUOTES

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist QUOTES

1 " You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?...'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That's what everyone wants. Not 24/7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche...or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have such a feeling that they can't hide. Every single successful song of the past fifty years can be traced back to 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' And every single successful love story has those unbearable and unbearably exciting moments of hand-holding. "

― , Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

2 " The way you're singing in your sleep
The way you look before you leap
The strange illusions that you keep
You don't know
But I'm noticing

The way your touch turns into arcs
The way you slide into the dark
The beating of my open heart
You don't know
But I'm noticing "

― , Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

3 " We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment. And by making the moment our own, we are rendering it timeless. There is no audience. There are no instruments. There are only bodies and thoughts and murmurs and looks. It's the concert rush to end all concert rushes, because this is what matters. When the heart races, this is what it's racing towards. "

― , Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

4 " Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpected downpour and I am just giving myself into it. Because what the fuck else can you do? Run for cover? Shriek and curse? No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it because if you can make yourself happy in the rain, then you're doing pretty alright in life. "

― , Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

5 " ...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life. "

― , Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

6 " My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away. "

― David Levithan , Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

7 " Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare. "

― , Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

8 " I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have a feeling that they can’t hide. "

― , Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

9 " Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. "

― , Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

10 " I didn't let her go. She went. It's not my fault.
She did it.
She could undo it.
This is feeling so fucking famliar.
Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Of is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else? "

― , Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

11 " I kind of hate Nick right now, too, but there's someone else higher on my list, someone I hate more than Saddam Hussein and any asshole named Bush combined, hate more than that fuckhead who canceled 'My So-Called Life' and left me with a too-small boxed DVD set that does not answer the questions whether Angela and Jordan Catalano did it, or if Patty and Graham got a divorce, or if there really was something to all that lesbian subtext between Rayanne and Sharon. "

― , Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

12 " When the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life. "

― David Levithan , Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

13 " We're better off. But I don't know if the world's better off. I don't know if the two are the same thing. "

― , Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

14 " I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist. "

― , Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

15 " One part of Judaism called tikkum olam. It says that the world has been broken into pieces. All this chaos, all this discord. And our job – everyone’s job – is to try to put the pieces back together. To make things whole again ... Maybe we’re the pieces. Maybe what we’re supposed to do is come together. That’s how we stop the breaking. "

― , Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

16 " She's cinematic and I'm a fucking sitcom. "

― , Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

17 " But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded. "

― , Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

18 " I want to kiss her without counting the seconds. I want to hold her so long that I get to know her skin. I want, I want, I want. "

― , Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

19 " Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else? "

― , Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

20 " I'm thinking I would like to dance in the rain with this person. I would like to lie next to him in the dark and watch him breathe and watch him sleep and wonder what he's dreaming about and not get an inferiority complex if the dreams aren't about me. "

― , Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist