6th most-quoted character in When Harry Met Sally (1989): in 4 of its 66 quotes
Most scenes with: Man (4)
Scenes with Woman
4 scenes
Woman We fell in love in high school.
Yeah, we were high school sweethearts.
Woman But then after our junior year, his parents moved away.
Woman He never forgot me.
No, her face was burned on my brain. And it was thirty-four years later that I was walking down Broadway and I saw her come out of Toffinetti's.
Woman And we both looked at each other, and it was just as though not a single day had gone by.
She was just as beautiful as she was at sixteen.
Woman He was just the same. He looked exactly the same.
We were married forty years ago. We were married three years, we got a divorce. Then I married Margerie.
Woman But first you lived with Barbara.
Right, Barbara. But I didn't marry Barbara I married Margerie.
Woman Then he got a divorce.
Right, then I married Kitty.
Woman Another divorce.
Then a couple of years later at Atticalicio's funeral, I ran into her. I was with some girl I don't even remember.
Woman Roberta.
Right, Roberta. But I couldn't take my eyes off you. I remember I snuck over to her and I said... What did I say?
Woman You said, "What are you doing after?"
Right. So I ditched Roberta, we go for a coffee, a month later we were married.
Woman Thirty five years today after our first marriage.
We were both born in the same hospital.
Woman Nineteen twenty one.
Woman In the same hospital.
We both grew up one block away from each other.
Woman We both lived in tenements.
Woman On Delancey Street.
My family moved to the Bronx when I was ten.
Woman He lived on Fordham Road.
Hers moved when she was eleven.
Woman I lived on a hundred and eighty third Street.
For six years she worked on the fifteenth floor as a nurse where I had a practice on the fourteenth floor in the very same building.
Woman I worked for a very prominent neurologist. We never met.
Woman Can you imagine that?
You know where we met? In an elevator. In the Ambassador Hotel, in Chicago, Illinois.
Woman I was visiting family. He was on the third floor I was on the twelve.
I rode up nine extra floors just to keep talking to her.
Woman Nine extra floors.
Woman He was a head counselor at the boys' camp, and I was a head counselor at the girls' camp. And they had a social one night. And he walked across the room. I thought he was coming to talk to my friend Maxine, because people were always crossing rooms to talk to Maxine, but he was coming to talk to me. And he said -
I'm Ben Small of the Coney Island Smalls.
Woman At that moment, I knew. I knew the way you know about a good melon.
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