under the tuscan sun

this movie is seriously my safety blanket. i love it to death, and it makes me feel better anytime i'm feeling sad. it never fails. and it has so many inspiring quotes, that i just have to put all my favorite ones here:

Frances: Every day I watch for the old man with the flowers, and I wonder, was he born here? Did he love someone here? Did he lose someone here? He doesn't seem as curious about me, but that's all right. These days I'm something of a loner myself.

Frances: Do you know the most surprising thing about divorce? It doesn't actually kill you. Like a bullet to the heart or a head-on car wreck. It should. When someone you've promised to cherish till death do you part says "I never loved you," it should kill you instantly. You shouldn't have to wake up day after day after that, trying to understand how in the world you didn't know. The light just never went on, you know. I must have known, of course, but I was too scared to see the truth. Then fear just makes you so stupid. Martini: No, it's not stupid, Signora Mayes. L'amore e cieco. Frances: Oh, love is blind. Yeah, we have that saying too. Martini: Everybody has that saying because it's true everywhere.

Frances: What is it about love that makes us so stupid?

Frances: The house protects the dreamer. Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game. Its such a suprise.

You have to live spherically, in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm...and...things will come your way.

Remember at the end when another man left her in the most terrible way. She thinks it's all over for her. Then, she see's some children playing in the street making music, and before she knows it, she's smiling again. That's what feyfey always said.. no matter what happens, always keep your childish innocence...it's the most important thing.

Frances: What are four walls, anyway? They are what they contain. The house protects the dreamer. Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game. It's such a surprise.

Frances: I'd like to make an offer on the house. This is what I can pay, minus the work on the place, and a rental car to drive off a cliff when this all turns out to have been a terrible mistake.

Katherine: Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

Frances: Do traffic lights mean anythng around here? Marcello: Sure. Green light - avanti, avanti. Yellow light - decoration. Frances: What about red light? Marcello: Just a suggestion.

Katherine: Never lose your childish innocence. It's the most important thing.

Martini: Signora, between Austria and Italy, there is a section of the Alps called the Semmering. It is an impossibly steep, very high part of the mountains. They built a train track over these Alps to connect Vienna and Venice. They built these tracks even before there was a train in existence that could make the trip. They built it because they knew some day, the train would come

Frances: So I was now the owner of a villa whose lands it would take two oxen two days to plow. Owning neither an ox nor a plow, I'd have to take their word for that.

Frances: What's your name? Marcello: Marcello. Frances: Of course it is.

How are you ever going to behappy if you keep wallowing? Listen,when I was a little girl, I used to spend hourslooking for ladybugs. Finally, I'd just give upand fall asleep in the grass. When I woke up,they were crawling all over me.