Before Sunrise Quotes

You know what’s the worst thing about somebody breaking up with you? It’s when you remember how little you thought about the people you broke up with and you realize that that is how little they’re thinking about you. You’d like to think that you’re both in all this pain, but really, they’re just, “Hey, I’m glad you’re gone.”

You know what drives me crazy? There’s all these people talking about how great technology is, and how it saves all this time. But what good is saved time if nobody uses it? If it just turns into more busy work.

When I was a little girl, I always thought that if none of your family or friends knew you were dead, then it’s like not really being dead. People can invent the best and the worst for you.

People always talk about how love is this totally unselfish, giving thing. But if you think about it, there’s nothing more selfish.

Isn’t everything we dream in life a way to be loved a little more?

If there’s any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something. I know, it’s almost impossible to succeed. But who cares, really? The answer must be in the attempt.

I wish I had met you earlier. I really like talking to you.

I like to feel his eyes on me when I look away.

I have this awful, paranoid thought that feminism was mostly invented by men so they could, like, fool around a little more. You know, “Woman, free your mind. Free your body. Sleep with me. We’re all happy and free as long as I can f*** as much as I can.”

I could never get very excited about other people’s ambitions for my life.

I can really fall in love when I know everything about someone. The way he’s gonna part his hair, which shirt he’s gonna wear that day, knowing the exact story he’d tell in a given situation. I’m sure that’s when I know I’m really in love.

I believe if there’s any kind of God, it wouldn’t be in any of us, not you or me. But just this little space in between.