The Notebook

Noah’s letters to Allie when she left:

(From the Movie)
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 the 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 hope to give to you forever.
I love you. I'll be seeing you.

Noah

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(From The Novel)
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we’ve lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we’ve found each other. And maybe each time, we’ve been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this good-bye is both a good-bye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.

When I look at you, I see your beauty and grace and know they have grown stronger with every life you have lived. And I know I have spent every life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you, for your soul and mine must always come together. And then, for a reason neither of us understands, we’ve been forced to say goodbye.

I would love to tell you that everything will work out for us, and I promise to do all I can to make sure it does. But if we never meet again, and this is truly good-bye, I know we will see each other again in another life. We will find each other again, and maybe the stars will have changed and we will not only love each other in that time, but for all the times we’ve had before.

Noah Calhoun

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Noah

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 will all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.

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You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. I love you, Allie, more than you could ever imagine. I always have, and I always will.

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I ne’er was struck before that hour
With love so sudden and so sweet
Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower
And stole my heart away complete

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Be composed – be at ease with me…
Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you,
Not till the waters to refuse to glisten for you
And the leaves to rustle for you
Do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you

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If not for my diaries, I would swear I had lived only half as long as I have. Long periods of my life seem to have vanished.

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Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost,
No birth, identity, form – no object of the world,
Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;
The body, sluggish, aged, cold – the embers
Left from earlier fires,
…shall duly flame again.

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No drowning man can know which drop
Of water his last breath did stop…

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When I see you now - moving slowly with new life growing inside you – I hope you know how much you mean to me, and how special this year has been. No man is more blessed than me, and I love you with all my heart.

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In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you, and take care of your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry, and when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods of tears and despair and make it through the potholed streets of life.

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The porch is silent except for the sound that float from the shadows, and for once I am at a lost for words. It is a strange experience for me, for when I think of you and the life we have shared, there is much to remember. A lifetime of memories. But to put it into words? I do not know if I am able. I am not a poet, and yet a poem is needed to fully express the way I feel about you.

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Dusk, I realized then, is just an illusion, because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are, there cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel, I remember wondering, to be always together, yet forever apart?

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I am still yours, Allie, my queen, my timeless beauty. You are and always have been, the best thing in my life.

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Allie

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.

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I love you for many things, especially your passions, for they have always been those things which are most beautiful in life.

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You are my best friend as well as my lover and I don’t 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 now, that’s what everyone sees. You are the most peaceful man I know. God is with you, he must be, for you are the closest thing to an angel that I’ve ever met.

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So I love you deeply, so incredibly much, that I will find a way to come back to you despite my disease, no matter what.

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You are, and always have been, my dream.

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Who was I to question a love that rode on shooting stars and crashing waves? For that is what it was between us then and that is what it is today.

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