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Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Iannis: When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No... don't blush. I am telling you some truths. For that is just being in love; which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over, when being in love has burned away. Doesn't sound very exciting, does it? But it is!

Corelli: Do you miss me?
Pelagia: So much that I cant sleep at night.

Corelli: I have always found something in life worth singing about and for that I cannot apologize.

Captain Weber: Heil Hitler!
Corelli: Heil Pucinni!

Iannis: What on earth you think you are doing?
Corelli: I'm feeling the orchestra.

Pelagia: I wrote to you every day. A hundred letters...and not a single reply.
Mandras: [takes out her letters from his coat] I never learned...to read or write.