2046 (2004)

Tony Leung Chiu-wai: Chow Mo-wan

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• Chow Mo Wan : Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late. If I'd lived in another time or place... my story might have had a very different ending.

• Chow Mo Wan : Take care. Maybe one day you'll escape your past. If you do, look for me.

• Chow Mo Wan : In love you can't bring on a substitute.

• Chow Mo Wan : When you don't take "no" for an answer, there is still a chance you'll get what you want.

• Chow Mo Wan : He didn't turn back. It's as if he boarded a very long train headed for a drowsy future through the unfathomable night.

• Bai Ling : I don't get it. Where does all that fun get you? If you find the right person, why waste time on the others?

  Chow Mo Wan : If I find the right person? A man like me has nothing much except free time. That's why I need company.

  Bai Ling : So people are just time fillers to you?

  Chow Mo Wan : I wouldn't say that. Other people can borrow my time too.

  Bai Ling : And tonight? Are you borrowing me, or am I borrowing you?

  Chow Mo Wan : No difference. Maybe I borrowed you earlier... and now you're borrowing me.

  Bai Ling : Ridiculous.

• Chow Mo Wan : Love is all a matter of timing.

• Chow Mo Wan : When the peony blooms, she stands tall. Does she mean no or yes?

• Chow Mo Wan : I slowly began to doubt myself. Maybe the reason she didn't answer was not that her reactions were delayed but simply that she didn't love me. So at last, I got it. It's entirely beyond my control. The only thing left for me... was to give up.

• Chow Mo Wan : Feelings can creep up on you unawares.

• Chow Mo Wan : Do you remember you asked me if there was anything I wouldn't lend? I've given it a lot of thought and now I know there is one thing I'll never lend to anyone.

• Chow Mo Wan : As I recall, that's the very last time we saw each other.