you've got mail
i'm in love with this movie!
kathleen: what will ny152 say today, i wonder. i turn on my computer. i wait impatiently as it connects. i go online, & my breath catches in my chest until i hear three little words: you've got mail. i hear nothing. not even a sound on the streets of new york, just the beating of my own heart. i have mail. from you.
kathleen: the odd thing about this form of communication is that you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. but i just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings.
joe: oh! i was eloquent!
kathleen: sometimes i wonder about my life. i lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - & sometimes i wonder, do i do it because i like it, or because i haven't been brave? so much of what i see reminds me of something i read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? i don't really want an answer. i just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. so good night, dear void.
joe: pride & prejudice.
kathleen: do you mind?
joe: i bet you read that book every year. i bet you just love that mr. darcy & your sentimental heart just beats wildly at the thought that he & umm.. well, you know... whatever her name is... are truly, honestly going to end up together.
waiter: can i get you something?
kathleen: no, no! he's not staying.
joe: mochaccino. decaf. nonfat.
kathleen: no, no. you are not staying.
joe: i'll just stay here until your friend gets here. gee, is he late?
kathleen: the heroin of pride & prejudice is elizabeth bennet. she is one of the greatest & most complex characters ever written. not that you would know.
joe: as a matter of fact, i've read it.
kathleen: oh, well, good for you.
joe: i think you'd discover a lot of things if you really knew me.
frank: what about you? is there someone else?
kathleen: no. no, but... but there's the dream of someone else.
joe: you know, sometimes i wonder...
kathleen: what?
joe: well... if i hadn't been fox books & you hadn't been the shop around the corner, & you & i had just, well... met...
kathleen: i know.
joe: yeah. i would have asked for your number, & i wouldn't have been able to wait twenty-four hours before calling you & saying, "hey, how about... oh, how about some coffee or, you know, drinks or dinner or a movie... for as long as we both shall live?"
kathleen: joe...
joe: & you & i would have never been at war. & the only thing we'd fight about would be which video to rent on a saturday night.
kathleen: well, who fights about that?
joe: well, some people. not us.
kathleen: we would never.
joe: if only.
kathleen: i gotta go...
joe: well, let me ask you something. how can you forgive this guy for standing you up & not forgive me for this tiny little thing of... of putting you out of business? oh, how i wish you would.
kathleen: i really have to go.
joe: yeah, well... you don't wanna be late.
