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 — 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. [to Almásy]
4th most-quoted character in The English Patient (1996): in 7 of its 82 quotes
A line from David CaravaggioAsk him. Ask your saint who he is. Ask him who he's killed. [to Hana]
More lines from David Caravaggio
3 quotesIn Italy, there's always chickens, but no eggs. In Africa there's eggs, but never chickens. Who separated them?
There was a result to what you did! [to Almásy]
Scenes with David Caravaggio
3 scenesYou get to the morning and the poison leaks away, doesn't it? Black nights. I thought I would kill you.
You can't kill me. I died years ago.
No, I can't kill you now.
You're in love with him, aren't you? Your poor patient. You think he's a saint because of the way he looks?
I don't think he is. I'm not so in love with him. I'm in love with ghosts. And so is he. He's in love with ghosts.
I'm one of his ghosts and he wouldn't even know.
Look here, for every name you give me, I'll let you keep a finger. You give me something, and you'll keep something.
Don't cut me.
Are thumbs fingers? [to Lieutenant]
Ist ein Daumen ein Finger?
Telefon.
I'm sick of this room. I'm sick of this heat! And I'm sick of this damn telephone!
[hangs it up]
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