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Gabriel Yared - Message in a bottle soundtrack - Theresa & Garrett
Message in a bottle - Catherine's letter
Catherine's Letter to Garrett
To all the ships on the sea and to all the ports. To all my friends, my family and strangers. This is a message and a prayer. The message is that during my trips I found a great truth. I have already found what everybody is looking for… and few find: the person for whom I was born to love. Somebody like me, from Outer Banks county… from the mysterious Atlantic. A person rich in simple values… a person who learnt on his own. A port in which I am always at home. The wind, the problems… or a little death can’t destroy this house. I pray for all the people to know such love and to recover from it. If my prayer is listened to, there won’t be guilt any more, or regrets. Neither anger. Please, God. Amen!
Catherine
Message in a bottle Catherine's letter
(as read by Catherine)
Wikiepedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_in_a_Bottle_(movie)
Garrett's 1st Letter to Catherine
Dear Catherine,
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| Imdb - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139462/ |
I’m writing to tell you that I’m on a journey toward that peace. And to tell you I’m sorry about so many things. I’m sorry I didn’t take better care of you… so you never spent a minute being cold or scared or sick. I’m sorry I didn’t try harder to find the words… to tell you what I was feeling. I’m sorry I never fixed the screen door. I fixed it now.
I’m sorry I ever fought with you. I’m sorry I didn’t apologize more. I was too proud. I’m sorry I didn’t bring you more compliments… on everything you wore and every way you fixed your hair. I’m sorry I didn’t hold on to you with so much strength that even God couldn’t pull you away.
All my love,
Garrett
Music from "Message in a bottle" Gabriel Yared
Where the Boundries Are
Where the Boundries Are
Teresa
Message in a Bottle ... my favorite scene (3/5) second letter
Garrett's 2nd Letter to Catherine
My Darling Catherine,
Where are you? And why, I wonder as I sit alone in a darkened house, have we been forced apart?
I don’t know the answer to these questions, no matter how hard I try to understand. The reason is plain, but my mind forces me to dismiss it and I am torn by anxiety in all my waking hours. I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.
I try to remember the way we once were, on the breezy deck of Happenstance. Do you recall how we worked on her together? We became a part of the ocean as we rebuilt her, for we both knew it was the ocean that brought us together. It was times like those that I understood the meaning of true happiness. At night, we sailed on blackened water and I watched as the moonlight reflected your beauty. I would watch you with awe and know in my heart that we’d be together forever. Is it always that way, I wonder, when two people are in love? I don’t know, but if my life since you were taken from me is any indication, then I think I know the answers. From now on, I know I will be alone.
I think of you, I dream of you, I conjure you up when I need you most. This is all I can do, but to me it isn’t enough. It will never be enough, this I know, yet what else is there for me to do? If you were here, you would tell me, but I have been cheated of even that. You always knew the proper words to ease the pain I felt. You always knew how to make me feel good inside.
Is it possible that you know how I feel without you? When I dream, I like to think you do. Before we came together, I moved through life without meaning, without reason. I know that somehow, every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step toward finding you. We were destined to be together.
But now, alone in my house, I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him, and I find myself wondering why—out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved—I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.
Garrett
Message in a Bottle ... my favorite scene (4/5) third letter
Garrett's 3rd and Final Letter to Catherine (Undelievered)
Dear Catherine,
My life started when I knew you and it ended when you died. I thought that keeping our memories we would both live. But I was wrong. A woman called Theresa showed me that if I opened my heart I could love again, irrespective of the intensity of suffering.
Storm - Gabriel Yared - Message in a Bottle - Soundtrack - (1999)
Message in a Bottle ... my favorite scene (5/5) final scene
Message in a Bottle Quotes
If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.
True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.
Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself. 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.
Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.
Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.
But because they didn't see each other very often, their relationship had more ups and downs than either of them had experienced before. Since everything felt right when they were together, everything felt wrong when they weren't.
There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.
I know that somehow, every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step towards finding you.
The ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together...
Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.
If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.
But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away, and confident, too, as if she were able to move through life on her own terms. To him, these were the things that really mattered. Without them, beauty was nothing.
That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever happened to her anymore. Each day seemed exactly like the last, and she had trouble differentiating among them.
But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away, and confident, too, as if she were able to move through life on her own terms. To him, these were the things that really mattered. Without them, beauty was nothing.
That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever happened to her anymore. Each day seemed exactly like the last, and she had trouble differentiating among them.
New Dream
Message in a Bottle-Soundtrack: Gabriel Yared
I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless them, and I find myself wondering why--out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved--I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.
It is at moments like these that I know my what my purpose is in life. I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you. I am here to learn from you and to receive your love in return.I am here because there is no other place to be.
She was everything I wanted. She was beautiful and charming, with a quick sense of humor, and she supported me in everything I did.
It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.
If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.
Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him.
As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.
At night, when I am alone, I call for you, and whenever my ache seems to be the greatest, you still seem to find a way to return to me.
And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming. He was partly those things, but more important, he seemed to live life on his own terms.
Life passes by now like the scenery outside a car window. I breathe and eat and sleep as I always did, but there seems to be no great purpose in my life that requires active participation on my part...I do not know where I am going or when I will get there.
Theresa Osborne: If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful.
I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you.
I watch with breaking heart as you slowly fade away.
Love is Love no matter old you are, and I knew if I gave you enough time, you'd come back to me.
To all the ships at sea, and all the ports of call. To my family and to all friends and strangers. This is a message, and a prayer. The message is that my travels taught me a great truth. I already had what everyone is searching for and few ever find. The one person in the world who I was born to love forever. A person, like me, of the outer banks and the blue Atlantic mystery. A person rich in simple treasures. Self-made. Self-taught. A harbor where I am forever home. And no wind, or trouble or even a little death can knock down this house. The prayer is that everyone in the world can know this kind of love and be healed by it. If my prayer is heard, there will be an erasing of all guilt and all regret and an end to all anger. Please, God. Amen.
I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.
...if they were meant to be together they would find a way to do it.
I wish we didn't live so far apart... You're kind of addicting.
Who do you think it was that brought the bottle to her?
I think... that when it comes to us, anything is possible.
They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities.
There are lots of real men out there - men who could fall in love with you at the drop of a hat.
I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him.
Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.
Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.
The ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together...
I watch with breaking heart as you slowly fade away.
Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.
Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.
Why do you edit the original words of these letters. I began reading your rendition of Catherine's letter and realised that for some reason you have changed many of the words.
ReplyDeleteSadly, the changes are not for the better. You have taken beauty and made it plain and ordinary. Better not to post at all than to post that which is inaccurate and demeaning of the original.
I wasn't aware I certainly can re-edit this page... Send the links you like better and let me know if those links are original or not so I might compare. thank you for your help.
DeleteThank you for your observations. The letters were downloaded from the internet without change. If there are better, more accurate weblinks please forward so correctional edits may be made.
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