If Beale Street Could Talk quotes about love

I don’t want to sound foolish. But, just remember, love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.

It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

I hope that nobody has ever had to look at anybody they love through glass.

I guess it can’t be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they’re making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there.

When two people love each other, when they really love each other, everything that happens between them has something of a sacramental air.

And Fonny’s body was a total mystery to me – the body of one’s lover always is, no matter how well one gets to know it: it is the changing envelope which contains the gravest mystery of one’s life.

Baby. Baby. Baby. I love you. And I’m going to build us a table and a whole lot of folks going to be eating off it for a long, long time to come.

He was the most beautiful person I had seen in all my life.

I don’t know, sir. But it’s old enough to know who you love.

I got two things in my life, man – I got my wood and stone and I got Tish. If I lose them, I’m lost. I know that.

He stands, and raises his fist. He smiles, and stands there for a moment, looking me dead in the eye. Something travels from him to me, it is love and courage.

We were to spend a long time in this room: our lives.

Now, we knew that nobody loved us: or, now, we knew who did. Whoever loved us was not here.

Okay. But that’s our flesh and blood, baby: our flesh and blood. I don’t know how we going to do it. I just know we have to do it.