.. the lake house ..

"How do you hold on to someone you've never met?"

Kate: It's kind of a long distance relationship.

Alex: Pick a place. I'll be there, I promise.


Alex: She's more real to me than anything I've ever known.

Kate: I sometimes feel as if I'm invisible, as if no one can see me at all. I never felt that way when I lived at the Lake House.

Henry Wyler: Do you remembering being here with Mom?
Alex: I remember she tried to make it work here... with us... with him.

Alex: This house is about connections.

Kate: [from trailer] Even though this is clearly impossible, it's amazing.

Alex: [voice over] How's your sunset?
Kate: It's perfect.
Alex: I only wish you were here to share it with me.

Kate: It's not meant to be.
Alex: No, don't say that. Something must've happened.
Kate: One man I can never meet. Him, I would like to give my whole heart to.

Alex Burnham: I'll wait!
Alex: Don't give up on me.

Kate: You waited.

Simon Wyler: Come on. Tell me. Where have you been?
Alex: [a long pause] I've been trying to forget you and forgive you.
Simon Wyler: Did you succeed?
Alex: No.

Henry Wyler: So, do you have a girlfriend?
Alex: Er, no... no.

Alex: [after he saw her at the subway station in 2004] I don't know if you remember but, we saw each other. That is, I saw you. You never told me... how beautiful you were.
Kate: Well, maybe you saw someone else. That was a bad hair year for me.
Alex: Long brown hair, gentle unguarded eyes...
Kate: OK, OK. You saw me. But I still don't know what you look like.
Kate: It was you. Why didn't you tell me?
Alex: You would've thought I was crazy or drunk. Or both.

Anna Klyczynski: He must write one hell of a letter.
Alex: I saw her. I kissed her. I love her.
Kate: Okay, my mystery correspondent, I get it - just in case you really are where and when you think you are, you'll need this
[he takes out a scarf from his mailbox]
Kate: . There was a freak late snow and everyone got sick. So, plenty of rest, lots of fluids. Doctor's orders.
Alex: [sarcastically] Snow. Right.
Kate: Let me let you go.
Alex: What's it like in the year 2006?
Kate: Well, I'm afraid the world's pretty much the same. Of course, we all dress in shiny metal jumpsuits and drive flying cars and no one talks anymore because we can read each other's minds... but, the truth is, from the past, not much has really changed in 2006.

Girl Patient: There's always something better coming around the corner. That's what she says...
Kate: If she's not careful, she can spend her whole life waiting.
Alex: I'm married too. I've got eight children and none of them look like me. I'm worried, Kate.
Kate: I would be too.
Alex: [chuckles] I'm single.
Kate: Life is not a book, Alex. It can be over in a second.

I remember when my heart broke.
I remember when I gave up loving you.
My heart couldn't take no more of you.
I was sad and lonely.
I remember when I walked out.
I remember when I screamed I hated you.
But somehow deep inside I'm still loving you.
I'm sad and lonely.

No one knew all the pain I went through.
All the love I saved deep in my heart for you.
Didn't know where I would go, where I would be.
But you made me leave.

I remember when I walked out.
I remember when I gave up loving you.
My heart couldn't take no more of you.
So sad and lonely, hey.
I remember when I stormed out.
I remember when I gave up loving you.
I was sad and lonely.