Love Scenes

So I'm supposed to be reading my book for Book Club. I hear it's a 'heavy' one... ugh. That already makes me tired. I tend to be more for the light-hearted-fiction. You know, like romantic comedies in book form. Although I do love me some 'period pieces'. Actually, I think it's more like 'anything with a great love scene'. And in regards to 'love scenes' - I'm not talking about 'adult situations'. I'm talking about those moments where characters have an interchange involving confessing their love with such passion and angst that you feel it right through the pages. Or maybe it's a tender moment, where the honesty that passes between the two is so simple and pure that you find your eyes are suddenly watering. And it's not just books where this happens to me... but movies as well. So in true procrastinating form, instead of reading my Book Club book, I'm going to list 5 of my favorite 'love scenes'. 

Scene #1:

The Notebook

I saw the movie, and yes, it makes me cry, but the Book made me bawl. 

You know the part where Noah (as the old man)

 sneaks down to Allie's room at the very end?

Well in the book he had a stroke, and not a heart attack. 

So he had to drag half of himself 

(since he had partial paralysis) to her room. 

Finish it off with them falling asleep together - forever - and you've got

one heck of a love scene.

Scene #2

Pride & Prejudice

Sadly, I have not read the book. But it's on the 'to do' list. 

But in the movie... when Mr. Darcy is walking
 through the morning mist... and he stumbles over his words
 as he tells Lizzy that he loves her

(which I think it was 3 times - no?)

Ahh... now that's a beautiful love scene.

Scene # 3

Titanic

(So I guess I officially moved from Books to Movies)

Okay, so I LOVE the part where the boat has sunk and 

Rose is lying on the headboard.

Jack is telling her that she has to live

 and do all the things she's dreamed out.

Considering he was about 90% frozen, that was one hot love scene.

*and just for the record - I don't think women were crazy
 about Leonardo... they were all crazy about Jack Dawson.
 I mean, who wouldn't want a man who sees
all the 'good' that's inside you and loves you for the person

that you have yet to personally discover!

Scene #4

Anne of Green Gables

um... heck yeah I had to include this movie!

It's only one of the best made-for-TV-films OF ALL TIMES.

Anyway, there are many wonderful moments in this treasure trove

of love scenes, but one of my absolute favorites might actually be in 

Anne of Avonlea. It's when Anne goes to the wedding and
 Gilbert follows her into the stable area. She has just heard

 Josie Pie making fun of her for being 

a bridesmaid again and she's trying to leave the wedding.

 Gilbert follows her, and then proposes. 

She says no, they go back and forth, and then the part that

absolutely kills me is when in one last final effort,

 Gilbert looks Anne in the eyes, 

and desperately whispers, 'please say yes'.

ugh... my heart hurts just thinking about it... 

this love scene is a force to be reckoned with.

Scene #5

Becoming Jane

This movie is one long love scene.

Not only is it a super dramatic tale of unrequited love,

but it made me love Anne Hathaway (I wasn't a fan before)

and made me REALLY love James McAvoy.

The part that is the most intense love scene for me, is when 

Jane realizes that Tom's family truly depends on him for survival.

She knows that the 'right' thing to do is to not runaway with him, 

even though her heart says she must. So when they are at a carriage 

stop and Jane decides to go back, and Tom is begging her not to, and 

 keeps asking her, 'but do you love me?' over and over...

that leaves me absolutely no choice but to 'ugly cry'.

* and ugly cry did I ever! I'm talking nose running, face swollen,

and weird noises (you know what I mean... it's when

you're crying really hard, and you know you're going to make a loud

sobbing noise if your mouth is open so you keep it shut by shoving

your blanket over your mouth to stop any sound waves from leaving. 

But the pressure from the sobs backs up because you're kind of holding

your breath, so all of the sudden this weird
 explosion of spit, tears, and air bursts out - which if anyone
wasn't looking at you at that point, 

they certainly are now - and as you draw in a big breath of air

(in reaction to the huge exhale that just happened) you kind of make 

this weird gasping sound that is a cross between a goat dying

and a fog horn.

or is that just me?

Anyway, those are my picks for fabulous love scenes. What are yours? I'd love to know... and maybe I can procrastinate a bit more and check out your picks, vs reading for Book Club.