1. “The Notebook”: “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.”
2. John Lennon: “Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
3. Juan Carlos Calderón: “I learned a kiss can be sweeter and deeper, that I can leave this world tomorrow. The good things I lived with you, and I learned with you that I was born the day I met you.”
4. “When Harry Met Sally”: “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
5. “Wizard of Oz”: “Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.”
6. Marilyn Monroe: “I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”
7. “Sleepless in Seattle”: “It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together… and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her.”
8. “Meet Joe Black”: “Love is passion, obsession, someone you can’t live without… I say find someone you can love like crazy and who’ll love you the same way back… Forget your head and listen to your heart… There is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love —Well, you haven’t lived a life at all. You have to try… If you haven’t tried, you haven’t lived.”
9. “The Wonder Years”: “All our young lives we search for someone to love, someone to make us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope, all the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, someone perfect is searching for us.”
10.“Crazy/Beautiful”: “There are millions of people in this world. But in the end, it all comes down to one.”
11. Dr. Seuss: “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
12. Bob Marley: “You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you.”
13. Pablo Neruda: “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
14. William Shakespeare: “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
Avendaño is editor of El Tiempo Latino
alberto@eltiempolatino.com
