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Quotes from the movie The English Patient
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Hana was just telling me that you were indifferent. . . to her cooking.
Count Laszlo de Alm·sy


I have come to love that little tap of the fingernail against the syringe. TapÖ TapÖ Tap.
Count Laszlo de Alm·sy


It wouldn't be make believe if you believed in me.
Count Laszlo de Alm·sy


Read to me will you? Read me to sleep.
Count Laszlo de Alm·sy


I must be a curse. Anybody who loves me, anybody who gets close to me. . . óor I must be cursed. Which is it?
Hana


It's raining.
Hana


Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace. New lovers are nervous and tender, but smash everything. For the heart is an organ of fire. For the heart is an organ of fireó I love that. I believe that.
Hana


I've been thinkingóhow does someone like you decide to come to the desert?
Katharine Clifton


And that would be unconscionable, I suppose, to feel any obligation? Yes. Of course it would.
Katharine Clifton


I'm not one of the walking wounded. It's only one night. Besides, if I remain it's the most effective method of persuading my husband to abandon whatever he's doing and come and rescue us.
Katharine Clifton


This is not very good is it?
Katharine Clifton


Am I a terrible coward to ask how much water we have?
Katharine Clifton


Yes is a comfort. Absolutely is not.
Katharine Clifton


You still have sand in your hair.
Katharine Clifton


A woman should never learn to sew, and if she can she shouldn't admit to it.
Katharine Clifton


This a different world is what I tell myself; a different life. And here I'm a different wife.
Katharine Clifton


I don't care to bargain.
Katharine Clifton


The neck of K can never [be something] not in my mind. and K's clothes always at ease on her. Does he notice? What is the significance of Betrayal? Does K bother with a moral Labyrinth - K's debate - does she debate?
Katharine Clifton


Am I 'K' in your book? I think I must be.
Katharine Clifton


You speak so many bloody languages, and you never want to talk
Katharine Clifton


I can't do this anymore.
Katharine Clifton


Do you think you are the only one who feels anything? Is that what you think?
Katharine Clifton


Why did you hate me? Don't you know you drove everybody mad?
Katharine Clifton


My darling, I'm waiting for you ó how long is a day in the dark, or a week? The fire is gone now, and I'm horribly cold. I really ought to drag myself outside but then there would be the sun. . . I'm afraid I waste the light on the paintings and on writing these words. We die, we die rich with lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have entered and swum up like rivers, fears we have hidden in, like this wretched cave. We are the real countries, not the boundaries drawn on maps with the names of powerful men. I know you will come and carry me out into the palace of winds. That's all I've wantedó to walk in such a place with you, with friends, on earth without maps.
Katharine Clifton


So. I come across the hospital convoy, I'm looking for this stuff. This nurse, Mary, tells me about you and Hana, hiding in some monastery, in what you call it ó retreat - how you'd come in from the desert and you were burned and you didn't remember your name, but you knew the words to every song that ever was and you had one possession - a copy of w:Herodotus and it was filled with letters and cuttings, and then I know it was you. . . I'd seen you writing in that book. At the embassy in Cairo, when I had thumbs, and you had a face. And a name.
David Caravaggio