「命がけである人を愛した」私にはそれで充分だ【映画：君に読む物語】

1996年にニコラス・スパークスが発表した小説（原作）を映画化したのがTHE NOTEBOOK（君に読む物語）。とにかく、英語の文章が丁寧でキレイだなーという印象で、映画化されると描写がまた素敵。

物語の中にあった、主人公のノアの言葉に、

「私はどこにでもいる、平凡な思想の平凡な男だ。平凡な人生を歩み、名を残すことなくじきに忘れ去られる。でもある一つだけ誰にも負けなかったことがある。命がけである人を愛した……。私にはそれで充分だ」

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”

というセリフがある。それだけで、本当に名誉ある人生なんじゃないかな、とふと思う。

詩、絵画、ダンス、手紙、recantation（公式の撤回、取消）
"they challenge each other but they love each other"

「どの恋も、流れ星のようだ。天上を熱く燃やし、一瞬、永遠が見える。
そして次の瞬間、燃え尽きる。」

”They (Love) are shooting stars – a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they’re gone.”

１年間、手紙を書き続けるノア。彼女の両親が捨てていた。

「うまくやるのは難しい。努力が必要だ。でも俺は努力したい。ずっと君が欲しいから。一緒にいたいから。将来を思い描いてみて。30年後、40年後……。誰と一緒だ？ もし奴なら行け！ それが君の望みなら俺は耐えていける。無難に選ぶな。」

"So, it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? Thirty years from now, forty years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him - go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again, if I thought that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out."

神の力は科学の限界を超える
正しい選択をね

人のことを考えるな、自分は何がしたいのか

"Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do YOU want?" 

永遠なものは何もない

原作本の一文：
“This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go. I love you, T.”

"She made me who I am and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat." - Noah 

“The romantics would call this a love story: the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it's a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life.”

"It was real, wasn’t it? You and me. Such a long time ago, we were just a couple of kids. But we really loved each other, didn’t we?"

"The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you."

“My dearest,
I write this letter by candlelight as you lie sleeping. And though I can't hear the soft sounds of your slumber, I know you are there, and soon I will be lying next to you again as I always have. And I will feel your warmth and your comfort, and your breaths will slowly guide me to the place where I dream of you and the wonderful man you are. I see the flame beside me and it reminds me of another fire, (with me in your soft clothes and you in your jeans) of me and you. I knew then we would always be together. My heart had been captured, and I knew inside that it had always been yours. Who was I to question a love that rode on shooting stars and roared like crashing waves? For that is what is was between us then and that is what it is today. You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together. You have something inside you, something beautiful and strong. Kindness, that's what I see when I look at you, that's what everyone sees. Kindness. You are the most forgiving and peaceful man I know. God is with you, He must be, for you are the closest thing to an angel that I've ever seen. We have lived a lifetime most couples never know, and yet, when I look at you, I am frightened by the knowledge that all this will be ending soon. (For we both know my prognosis and what it will mean to us.) I see your tears and I worry more about you than I do about me, because I fear the pain I know you will go through. There are no words to express my sorrow for this, and I am at a loss for words. So I love you so deeply, so incredibly much. Know that I love you, that I always will, and that no matter what happens, know I have led the greatest life possible. My life with you. I love you. I love you now as I write this, and I love you now as you read this. And I am so sorry if I am not able to tell you. I love you deeply. You are, and always have been, my dream.”

Nicholas Sparks