Waiting for Tom Hanks Quotes

“Everyone thinks of romantic comedies as being these sappy, unrealistic stories where love conquers all and everyone ends up happy at the end. But that's not what her movies were at all. Like, in Sleepless in Seattle, you can't really get any sadder that Tom Hanks missing his dead wife. And in You've Got Mail, Meg Ryan misses her mom and loses her store. None of that gets resolved by the end. It's not like Tom's wife comes back to life, and Meg Ryan still loses the business her mom built.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“The things that suck still suck, but they're allowed to be happy. And maybe it means so much more that they're happy, knowing that they still carry that sadness with them.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“Maybe my person and I won’t fit together like two halves of the same whole, but neither did Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in You’ve Got Mail or Sleepless in Seattle. They didn’t erase each other’s pain; they just made it bearable.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“It doesn’t matter how someone in a romantic comedy affords their absurdly nice house, or whether or not their profession makes sense, or if technically they’re sort of stalking someone they heard on a call-in radio show. What matters is that they have hope. Sure, they find love, but it’s not even about love. It’s the hope that you deserve happiness, and that you won’t be sad forever, and that things will get better. It’s hope that life doesn’t always have to be a miserable slog, that you can find someone to love who understands you and accepts you just as you are.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“I try not to judge people who face situations I’ve never faced”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“Sure, it's absolutely ridiculous to turn down a real-life guy because of a movie star, like saving myself for one of the Jonas Brothers in junior high, but it's how I feel.”
― Kerry Winfrey , Waiting for Tom Hanks

“you either distract yourself from your pain with over-activity, or you make yourself a home inside your pain cocoon.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“I never explained the whole D&D thing to him; he probably thinks he’s helping Uncle Don set up for some weird sex party. I just shake my head and give him a look that I hope communicates I’ll explain later. “Sure,” Drew says. “I couldn’t live with myself if Dungeon Master Rick was disappointed.” “He’s a difficult man to please,” Uncle Don says with a sigh, which really doesn’t help the whole “this looks like a sex party” situation.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“The cashier, a cute girl in her early twenties, claimed the ice-cream machine was broken, but one smile from Drew and it magically worked.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“You know how some celebrities age really well? Like, how George Clooney looked so much better by the time he married Amal than he did when he was doing sitcom work in the ’80s? It’s kind of like that. This guy looks like he’ll age well, like a wine or a cheese or a Clooney.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“If cars had names, Uncle Don’s would be Brenda, and she would be a sassy, no-nonsense HR manager. This car, whatever it is, would be named Cristal, and she would probably be an Instagram influencer.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“Life is a risk, and you can’t protect yourself from heartbreak by refusing to go after what you want.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“There’s a part of me that needs to see a world where everything works out for the best,”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“What matters is that they have hope. Sure, they find love, but it’s not even about love. It’s the hope that you deserve happiness, and that you won’t be sad forever, and that things will get better. It’s hope that life doesn’t always have to be a miserable slog, that you can find someone to love who understands you and accepts you just as you are.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“But you’re a hopeless romantic. Love exists for people like you.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“I always think you’re exaggerating, but you’re literally in love with a fictional man.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“I have a theory that you can react to tragedy in one of two ways: you either distract yourself from your pain with over-activity, or you make yourself a home inside your pain cocoon.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“It’s ridiculous that someone decided twinkle lights are Christmas only things when desperately need them to get through the bleakness of the post holiday winter... Twinkle lights should be everywhere all the time.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“Truly, is there anything more romantic than Tom Hanks on a boat?”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“didn’t have anything to do after I hung up my graduation robe in the closet, but I knew one thing: Tom Hanks would be able to solve this. Again, not Tom Hanks himself, although he does seem like a very smart man, and I’m sure that if he can write a short-story collection or direct the film That Thing You Do! then he could probably figure out a way to fix my life.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“Tom Hanks isn’t a person so much as he is a representation of the kind of man I deserve, as”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“That’s not the point, okay?” I say, slamming myself down in the chair across from him. “It doesn’t matter how someone in a romantic comedy affords their absurdly nice house, or whether or not their profession makes sense, or if technically they’re sort of stalking someone they heard on a call-in radio show. What matters is that they have hope. Sure, they find love, but it’s not even about love. It’s the hope that you deserve happiness, and that you won’t be sad forever, and that things will get better. It’s hope that life doesn’t always have to be a miserable slog, that you can find someone to love who understands you and accepts you just as you are.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“you can react to tragedy in one of two ways: you either distract yourself from your pain with over-activity, or you make yourself a home inside your pain cocoon.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks