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Jesse: What do you think were the chances of us ever meeting again?
Celine: After that December, I'd say almost zero. But we're not real anyway, right? We're just, uh, characters in that old lady's dream. She's on her deathbed, fantasizing about her youth. So of course we had to meet again.
Jesse: Oh, God, why weren't you there, in Vienna?
Celine: I told you why.
Jesse: Well, I know why, I just - I wish you would have been. Our lives might have been so much different.
Celine: You think so?
Jesse: I actually do.
Celine: Maybe not. Maybe, we would have hated each other eventually.
Jesse: Oh what, like we hate each other now?
Celine: You know, maybe we're - we're only good at brief encounters, walking around in European cities in warm climate.
Jesse: Oh, God, why didn't we exchange phone numbers and stuff? Why didn't we do that?
Celine: Because we were young and stupid.
Jesse: Do you think we still are?
Celine: I guess when you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times
Jesse: And you can screw it up, you know, misconnect.
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Celine: I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.
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傑西：你認為我們再度相遇的機會有多大？
席琳：過了12月，我說大概是零。但是我們根本不是真實的吧？我們不過是那老女人夢裡的角色。她躺在床上快死了，幻想過往的青春。所以我們當然會再度相遇。
傑西：天哪？你當時為什麼不在維也納呢？（按：你為什麼沒來赴約哪？）
席琳：我告訴過你原因。
傑西：好吧，我知道為什麼…我只是但願你那時能赴約啊。我們的生命原可能大不相同。
席琳：你這麼想？
傑西：真的啊！
席琳：也許是吧。也許我們遲早會討厭對方。
傑西：就像現在你討厭我，我也討厭你？
席琳：也許我們只是…我們只適合短暫的邂逅，在和煦的天氣，在歐洲城市偶遇。
傑西：天哪！為什麼我們當時沒有交換電話什麼的呢？為什麼沒有啊？
席琳：因為我們年輕而且愚蠢。
傑西：你覺得我們現在還是？
席琳：我想當你年輕時，你以為總會有許多能夠心靈相契的人。年歲大了以後，才發覺那是少之又少。
傑西：而且總可能把事搞砸。你知道的，無法契合，搭不上線(misconnect)。
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席琳：我覺得如果任何形式神力(God)如果存在的話，它不存在你身上，也不在我身上，而在我們之間這小小的距離。假如魔法是存在的，它一定存在於嘗試理解他人分享事物的企圖裡。我知道，幾乎不可能去真的了解另一個人，但那又怎樣呢?答案在那企圖裡。
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