You’ve Got Mail > Quotes

Kathleen: [in an email] 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: It wasn’t… personal.
Kathleen: What is that supposed to mean? I am so sick of that. All that means is that it wasn’t personal to you. But it was personal to me. It’s personal to a lot of people. And what’s so wrong with being personal, anyway?
Joe: Uh, nothing.
Kathleen: Whatever else anything is, it ought to begin by being personal.

Joe: You know, sometimes I wonder…
Kathleen: What?
Joe: Well… if I hadn’t been Fox Books and you hadn’t been The Shop Around the Corner, and you and I had just, well, met…
Kathleen: I know.
Joe: Yeah. I would have asked for your number, and I wouldn’t have been able to wait twenty-four hours before calling you and 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?”

Joe: Don’t cry, Shopgirl. Don’t cry.
Kathleen: I wanted it to be you. I wanted it to be you so badly.

Kathleen: When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.