Duke: *vo* I am no one special just a common man with common thoughts. I've led a common life. There are no monumnets dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but in one respect, I've succeeded as gloriously as anyone who has ever lived. I've loved another with all my heart and soul and for me that has always been enough.

Duke: How's it hangin' Harry?
Harry: I keep trying to die, but they won't let me.
Duke: Well, you can't have everything.

Noah: You want to dance with me?
Allie: No.
Noah: Why not?
Allie: 'Cause I don't want to.

Noah: Will you go out with me?
Allie: What? No
Noah: No?
Allie: No
Noah: No?
Allie's date: Hey Pal, she just told you.
Noah: Why not?
Allie: I don't know, because I don't want to.
Sara: Noah!
Noah: What? Well, you leave me no other choice then.
Allie: AHHHH!!
Allie's date: Oh my God.
Sara: I'm not kidding, Noah, stop fooling around.
Fin: What are you doing?
Noah: I'm gonna ask you one more time, will you or will you not go out with me? Sara: Noah, you best come on.
Noah: God damn, my hand's slipping.
Sara: Then grab the bar, you idiot.
Noah: Not until she agrees.
Fin: Ah, go out with him, honey.
Allie: Ok, Ok, Fine, I'll go out with you.
Noah: No, don't do me any favors.
Allie: No, no I want to.
Allie's date: You want to? You want to?
Allie: Yes!
Noah: Say it.
Allie: I want to go out with you.
Noah: Say it again.
Allie: I WANNA GO OUT WITH YOU!
Noah: Alright, alright we'll go out.
Allie: You think you're so smart, don't you?

Allie: *lying in the middle of the street* What if a car comes?
Noah: We die.

Allie: Say I'm a bird.
Noah: No. Don't do it.
Allie: Say I'm a bird.
Noah: Stop it. Stop it now. *runs to him* You're not.
Allie: Say it.
Noah: You're a bird.
*they kiss*
Allie: Now say you're a bird too.
Noah: If you're a bird, I'm a bird.

*Noah and Allie are on the river in the boat*
Mr. Hamilton: It's just summer love.
Mrs. Hamilton: Trouble, is what it is.

Mrs. Hamilton: She is out foolin' around with that boy until two o'clock in the morning and it has got to stop! I didn't spend seventeen years of my life raising a daughter and giving her EVERYTHING, so she could throw it away on a summer romance!
Allie: DADDY!
Mrs. Hamilton: She will wind up with her heart broken or pregnant! Now he's a nice boy, but he's...
Allie: He's WHAT? He is what? Tell me!
Mrs. Hamilton: He is trash! Trash! Trash! Not for you!

Noah: What am I going to do in New York?
Allie: Be with me.

Duke: Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons, but when all is said and done, they have one thing in common. They are shooting stars -- a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity and in a flash, they're gone.

Lon: Allie, I've been thinking a lot about why we shouldn't get married.
Allie: Ok, I give up, why shouldn't we get married?
Lon: Well, see, that's the thing, I couldn't think of anything at first and then it just dawned on me. Your parents...
Allie: My parents?
Lon: Absolutely. Your old mom and dad. Thank you for that. You see that problem is that they love me. I'm exactly the type of man they want you to end up with.
Allie: They do? Really?
Lon: You know, I'm wealthy, I'm from the south, I got a decent job. You know I'm an incredible dancer, I'm a really smart guy. You look great.
Allie: *Allie's puts a finger in her mouth because of all the things he mentioned* So what's the problem, huh?
Lon: I like to think - now just this, if you marry me -
Allie: Mm-hmm
Lon: Now listen close. If you marry me...
Allie: Mm-hmm
Lon: Then you will have lost a life long battle of defiance against them.
Allie: Oh my goodness, what are we going to do?
Lon: I do not know.
Allie: Huh!
*big band scene where they sing along*
Lon: See Allie, I think - damn it, I think you have to marry me. I think you need to marry me.
Allie: I do?
Lon: Yes, you do.
Allie: I do, why?
Lon: Because if you do, your parents will always know the unhappiness that you feel for not being able to disappoint them.
Allie: I think you may have overlooked one minor detail.
Lon: And what's that?
Allie: Well, you see, you have to get their permission first and I think you may have overestimated their affection for you.
Lon: Is that right?
Allie: Mm-hmm.
Lon: Oh, I don't think so.
Allie: Why not?
Lon: Oh, cause I asked them already and they said yes.
Allie: What?

Duke: He took a good look at what he had accomplished, got rip-roaring drunk for 10 days, thought seriously about setting it on fire. Then finally put the house up for sale.

Martha: Sometimes when you talk to me, you don't even see me. Look, a woman knows when a man looks into her eyes and sees someone else.
Noah: Now you know I want to give you all the things that you want. Right? But I can't because they're gone... they're broken. All right?

Allie: Why didn't you write me? Why? It wasn't over for me. I waited for you for 7 years and now it's too late.
Noah: I wrote you 365 letters. I wrote you every day for a year.
Allie: You wrote me?
Noah: Yes.
Allie: You -
Noah: It wasn't over. It still isn't over. *kisses her*

Noah: I see you got my letters. Finally. What are going to do, Al?
Allie: I don't know.

Noah: You're bored!

Noah: Will you stay with me?
Allie: Stay with you? What for? Look at us, we're already fighting.
Noah: Well, that's what we do. We fight. You tell me when I'm being an arrogant son of a bitch and I tell you when you're being a pain in the ass, which you are ninety-nine percent of the time.

Noah: But don't take the easy way out.
Allie: Wht easy way? There is no easy way, no matter what I di. Someone gets hurt.
Noah: Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants. Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do you want?

Noah: *vo* My dearest Allie, I couldn't sleep last night because I know that it's over between us. I'm not bitter anymore, because I know that what we had was real and if in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I'll smile at you with joy and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees. Learning from each other and growing in love. The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds and that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give to you forever. I love you. I'll be seeing you, Noah.