Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

Giovanna Mezzogiorno: Fermina Urbino

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Quotes 

• Florentino Ariza : [closing scene, in bed together, but clothed]  I love you, my crowned goddess. We're going to stay like this.

  Fermina Urbino : You can't mean it.

  Florentino Ariza : From the moment I was born, I have never said anything I did not mean.

  Fermina Urbino : [exhales, almost trembling]  And how long do you... you think we can... stay like this?

  Fermina Urbino : Forever.

  Fermina Urbino : Forever?

  Florentino Ariza : [cut to view of the sun-lit boat anchored in the midst of the river]  After 53 years, seven months and 11 days and night, my heart was at last fulfilled. And I discovered, to my joy, that it is life and not death that has no limits.

• Fermina Urbino : The only thing that hurts me is that I don't have enough strength to give you the beating that you deserve for being so insolent and evil-minded. But you will leave this house right now and I swear to you on my mother's grave that you will not set foot in it again as long as I live. Life crippled that poor man 50 years ago, because he was too young and now you want to do it because we are too old.

• Florentino Ariza : [Surprising her in her house]  Fermina I have waited for this opportunity for 51 years, nine months and four days. That is... how long I have loved you from the first moment I cast eyes on you un... until now.

  Fermina Urbino : Florentino Ariza... get out of here! Get out!

  Fermina Urbino : [cut to Ariza reading a letter from Fermina while we hear her words:]  Florentino Ariza, you are a dreadful, insensitive human being. How dare you enter my house on the day my beloved husband died and utter such monstrous, ridiculous sentiments? You have put me in a mortal rage, which has caused me to think about you without wanting to. Do you understand? I do not want to think about you. Stay out of my life.

• Fermina Urbino : Florentino Ariza is not a human. He is a shadow.

• Dr. Juvenal Urbino : I love you above all else. More than anyone else in the world. The important thing in marriage is not happiness but stability.

  Fermina Urbino : And love. Nothing is more difficult than love.