"English patient" quotes

* -Madox: I have to teach myself not to read too much into everything. It comes from too long having to read so much into hardly anything at all.

* -Katharine Clifton: You speak so many bloody languages, and you never want to talk.

* -Almásy: There is no God, but I hope someone watches over you.

* -Almásy: New lovers are nervous and tender, but smash everything. For the heart is an organ of fire.

* -Hana: [crying, her face a frozen mask] I must be a curse. Anybody who loves me, anybody who gets close to me... or I must be cursed. Which is it?

* -Katharine Clifton: My darling. I'm waiting for you. How long is the day in the dark? Or a week? The fire is gone, and I'm horribly cold. I really should drag myself outside but then there'd be the sun. I'm afraid I waste the light on the paintings, not writing these words. We die. We die rich with lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we've entered and swum up like rivers. Fears we've hidden in - like this wretched cave. I want all this marked on my body. Where the real countries are. Not boundaries drawn on maps with the names of powerful men. I know you'll come carry me out to the Palace of Winds. That's what I've wanted: to walk in such a place with you. With friends, on an earth without maps. The lamp has gone out and I'm writing in the darkness.

* -Almásy: Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again.

* -Katharine Clifton: Will we be alright?
-Almásy: Yes. Yes, absolutely.
-Katharine Clifton: "Yes" is a comfort. "Absolutely" is not.