Amélie quotes
Life’s funny sometimes. It can push pretty hard, but if you look closely, there’s always a soft side.
There’s something about destroying things that’s very addictive.
Without you, today’s emotions would be the scurf of yesterday’s.
Our time is never really our own.
Sometimes my heart beats so fast, I think it’s going to make my shaky legs collapse.
If you let these moments fly past, nothing will ever happen.
A person without love is like a tea without sugar.
Seeing people’s private lives is like seeing their underwear.
Life’s too short to be a mouse.
Why anyone would spend their time choosing to drink something so… bitter?
You don’t need to speak the same language to understand each other.
It’s better to help people than to save a kingdom.
I find my dad on the internet, too. It’s harder, but it’s him.
Amelie has discovered she has no special destiny. And now at least she can stop waiting for it.
Fooling around with Matsuhisa, he knows Osaka now. That’s life. You never know how it’ll turn out.
You know there are times when it’s absolutely great to be a waiter. I mean, you’re not rich, but you’re free.
And then, one day, she discovered that she could dream awake.
So, my little Amelie, you don’t have bones of glass. You can take life’s knocks.
The ideal man wanders into your life. What more could you want?
At least you’ll never be a vegetable. Even artichokes have hearts.
So, she sees the life of the café as a small, glittering indication of the possibilities of happiness.
So whenever I feel like it, I can go to the garden and watch the tubes.
She quite liked being alone, but she relished being with others, too.
Maybe what she really likes is making us happy.
Do you think you can count the grains of sand on a beach? The stars in the sky?
Sometimes one of us happens to find a mysterious photo in our passport.
For example, on June 15, 1939, I accidentally invented the skateboard.
With her love of small acts of kindness, in a subtle kind of way, she constantly tries to make up the difference.
Are you one of those people who believes in angel worship?
It’s funny how often people imagine the good things they could do if they had money.
In Paris, everybody looks at what you’re wearing, because they’ve got no idea who you are.
One day, she found a box of old photos in the place, and she started imagining the lives of these people she’d never met.
With endless inventiveness, she brings together two complete strangers in the monkey cage.
The cult of travel is all very well, but knowing how to travel is important, too.
We pass through so many towns. It’s sad to think that most of them can’t even sustain an artist.
She walks amongst the living and she can’t touch them.
She’s the kind of person who’s always doing something good, all alone, and we seldom even follow it in the papers.
Times are hard for dreamers.
Why do we go to such lengths to disguise or ignore certain feelings?
Well, you’ll see, there’s the trick. We anticipate too much.
It’s better to help people than garden gnomes.
Either she’s an orphan until she turns 18, with no passport, no ID card, no nationality. No, that’s not possible. She’d have to be scared of everything all the time.
And more important, how will he manage to cross the street? Then one day his father hears the solution.
It’s quite frustrating because sometimes it seems like those are the songs that touch us the most.
She knows exactly when to pull out all the stops to make herself beautiful.
The stones always send you to people who are away, or dead.
When a monster finally appears, the chap finds his courage, and he destroys the monster.
It’s a shame they can’t see each other’s faces or feel each other’s hands, they’d know right away they’re made for each other.
She’s afraid of him at first, but then she understands that he’s just like Maman.
Imagine you can travel through time.