Little Manhattan: Gabe's Monologues

Little Manhattan may be kind of cheesy movies, but I like it. Since this movie tells us about first love, the main character is a little boy, named Gabe. What makes this movie special is its innocence which is mostly represented in Gabe's monologues. So, here are some of them. I apologize if there are mistakes in grammar or tenses. FYI, my listening skill is not good.

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This is me now. I've been in love for two-and-a-half weeks, and it's a pain I wouldn't wish on my worst enemies. I'm not gonna dress this up pretty. Just about everything I know about women, love, and the birds, and the frickin' bees. I've learned in the past two-and-a-half weeks. But when you're ten years old, two-and-a-half weeks can be a lifetime.

This much, I know first hand. Love ends.

Why do they ever have to discover this ridiculous pain inside of me? Because two-and-a-half weeks ago, before this love non-sense and I'm not just saying this either, before this, I was happy. Truly happy.

Rosemary, Rosemary, why did you ever come into my life?

Let me tell you something about Resemary Telesco. Rosemary wasn't the prettiest girl in our class. That was Madison Shaw. And she wasn't the second prettiest, either. That was Vanessa Muir. Rosemary was the third. But boy, could that girl do karate.

Okay, what's going on here? What the heck is this? Oh, my God. What is this feeling in the pit of my stomach? Who is this - this amazing creature before me? In that one moment, Rosemary Telesco leaped past Vanessa Muir, past Madisson Shaw. I looked at Rosemary and just felt so, umm, confused. She's a girl. I'm supposed to despise girls, not feel nervous talking to one, not feel tongue-tied. I mean this was Rosemary Telesco, I knew her since kindergarten!

Man, look at her. Have you ever seen anyone more beautiful? So smart, too. She's just my type. Wow. I didn't even know I had a type.

Never had I felt so alive! I had a date with Rosemary! Was there any better age to be in any better city in the world?

But she wasn't just in my karate class anymore. She was in my life.

Are there any more beautiful words in the English dictionary than 'see you tomorrow'?

If only I could do something about the beating of my heart. Could she hear that through the phone?

With that girl's arms around me, there was nothing I couldn't do.

Never had I been so keenly aware of the ability of palm to manufacture sweat, but I was determined to hold that girl's hand for every single second. 

All of those ridiculous songs about love, I finally understood.

There are very few things more painful than watching the woman you love grapple with another man. Actually, I take that back. There are no things more painful.

It was the pain that had no name. 

Look at them all. Rats in their cages, their lives destroyed by love. I'm done with it. I won't be like them. The fools. 

It's amazing how quickly time moves. Just yesterday, I thought I loved her, but now, I don't even care about her at all.

The next morning, this kind of amazing thing happened. The sun came up again. See, life is about so much more than Rosemary. I had my family, my health, my kicking career. I really had no room for a woman in my life. 

Love isn't about ridiculous little words. Love is about grand gestures. Love is about airplanes pulling banners over stadiums, proposals on jumbo-trons, giant words in sky writing. Love is about going that extra mile even if it hurts, letting it all hang out there. Love is about finding courage inside of you that you didn't even know was there. 

The truth is, you come into this world alone and leave it the exact same way.

Love is an ugly terrible business practiced by fools. It'll trample your heart and leave you bleeding on the floor. And what does it really get you in the end? Nothing but a few incredible memories that you can't ever shake. The truth is, there's gonna be other girls out there. I mean, I hope. But I'm never gonna get another first love. That one is always gonna be her.