Lili Elbe Quotes in The Danish Girl (2015)

Gerda Wegener: I need to see Einar.

Lili Elbe: Let me help, please.

Gerda Wegener: I need my husband, can you get him?

Lili Elbe: I can't.

Gerda Wegener: I need to talk to my husband, and I need to hold my husband. Can you at least try?

Lili Elbe: I'm sorry.

Lili Elbe: How have I ever deserved such love? There's nothing to be afraid of anymore.

Gerda Wegener: No.

Lili Elbe: Last night I had the most beautiful dream. I dreamed that I was a baby in my mother's arms. And she looked down at me, and she called me Lili.

Lili Elbe: So, what you're suggesting is that, uh, a doctor intervened. To correct a mistake in nature.

Henrik: He made you a woman.

Lili Elbe: No, God made me a woman. But the doctor... He... The doctor is curing me of the sickness that was my disguise.

Lili Elbe: This is not my body, Professor. Please take it away.

Lili Elbe: I think that marriage is the single thing we should all hope for in life.

Hans Axgil: Really?

Lili Elbe: It creates someone else. More than just the two of you. Yes, I think it'd be terrible not to...