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Lost in Translation QUOTES

Lost in Translation QUOTES

1 " But in the end he didn't love her enough to fight for her. "

― Nicole Mones , Lost in Translation

2 " If there was one thing she knew by then, by age twenty-two, it was that she had to get far away and stay away. Here in his world she was trapped in an intolerable corner, which seemed to grow tighter and tighter each year. And now no place in America felt right. "

― Nicole Mones , Lost in Translation

3 " So this is one of those times when life is just handing you something, telling you what to do, which way to go. So enjoy it. It'll be fun. I guarantee. I can't guarantee we'll find the goddamn thing, but it'll be interesting. Then if we do find it - if we do- the payoff's huge. "

― Nicole Mones , Lost in Translation

4 " That as a human being I'm not necessarily static, but... evolving. That I'm supposed to grow and develop, just like the physical world, the planet, the universe. "

― Nicole Mones , Lost in Translation

5 " Did you really love her? Did you really enter her heart and mind? Or did the two of you always remain outside each other? "

― Nicole Mones , Lost in Translation

6 " Everything except the freedom to be what she wanted to be - whatever that was. She had to break away. Whether he liked it or not. She had to. "

― Nicole Mones , Lost in Translation

7 " I don't believe fundamentally in anything but the awakening of spirit, hope, and freedom. "

― Nicole Mones , Lost in Translation

8 " Everything looks different. The houses are all these wild colors. The light is strange. It smells primeval. You're on Mars."
"You are talking about driving?" Lin attempted to clarify.
"About wanderlust," she answered. "

― Nicole Mones , Lost in Translation

9 " Breaking some respected boundaries means a torrent of new life. "

― Nicole Mones , Lost in Translation

10 " He looked at her. There was something about her. When he was with her he felt happy, excited; when he was apart from her he found himself wanting to be with her again. "

― Nicole Mones , Lost in Translation

11 " She, too, could become someone else. Eventually. Or she'd told herself all these years. "

― Nicole Mones , Lost in Translation

12 " But I get frightened sometimes," she admitted.
"I know. Fear is only fear, though."
"And somehow you live without it."
"No," he corrected her. "You live with it. "

― Nicole Mones , Lost in Translation

13 " What was more brutal than loss of hope? "

― Nicole Mones , Lost in Translation

14 " I don't hope," he answered, eyes on her. "I never hope. I just live in gratitude for what comes. "

― Nicole Mones , Lost in Translation

15 " Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfil them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. "

― Nicole Mones , Lost in Translation

16 " A door to an alternate self. This self was another Alice, not the childhood Alice: capable, free in the world, independent. "

― Nicole Mones , Lost in Translation

17 " She shrugged, knowing all too well how easy it was to long for a different life, how hard it was to find one's way there. "

― Nicole Mones , Lost in Translation

18 " full of rage at a world which seemed all wrong to her and dreaming about someplace where she would belong, really belong. "

― Nicole Mones , Lost in Translation

19 " Grief is a killer, isn't it?" he said. "Brings you right up to the truth. "

― Nicole Mones , Lost in Translation

20 " They connected on every level - mental, philosophical, emotional. But she couldn't have him, not all of him. "

― Nicole Mones , Lost in Translation