The English Patient quotes
81 total quotesKatharine Clifton
Kirpal Singh (Kip)
Madox
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Hana was just telling me that you were indifferent. . . to her cooking. [to Kip]
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I can still taste you. I try to write with your taste in my mouth. [to Katharine]
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I can't do this anymore. [to Almásy]
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I have come to love that little tap of the fingernail against the syringe. Tap… Tap… Tap. [to Caravaggio]
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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.
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I long for the rain on my face. [to Hana]
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I must be a curse. Anybody who loves me, anybody who gets close to me. . . —or I must be cursed. Which is it?
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I once traveled with a guide who was taking me to Faya. He didn't speak for nine hours. At the end of it he pointed to the horizon and said, Faya! That was a good day. [to Katharine]
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I think I was a pilot.
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I thought this is what Almasy said?
(?) There's a war. Where you come from becomes important.
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I'm going to suprise her. It's our anniversary. She's forgotten, of course. [to Madox]
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I'm not agreeing. Don't think I'm agreeing, because I'm not. [to Katharine]
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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.
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I've been thinking—how does someone like you decide to come to the desert? [to Almásy]
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In a few minutes there'll be no stars— the air is filling with sand. [to Katharine]