Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)

Christian Bale: Mandras

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Quotes 

• 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.

• Pelagia : Why did you save him? Why didn't you leave him to die?

  Mandras : I wanted you to love me again.

  [Pulls out 100 letters] 

  Mandras : In Albania, I made them read every one of these to me... 'Mandras, I love you,' 'Mandras, I want you,' 'Mandras, when are you coming back?' And then one day, a different letter. 'I don't know how to describe my feelings. It's as if I have been waiting a hundred years to hear from you, waiting a hundred years for you to return. Once, my heart was overflowing with love for you, but now all I feel is emptiness. And I think it was all just a pretense, that I never loved you at all.'