Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again. [to Katharine]
Most scenes together: Count Laszlo de Almásy & Katharine Clifton (8), Count Laszlo de Almásy & Madox (2)
The English Patient quotes
Page 3 of 6Hana was just telling me that you were indifferent. . . to her cooking. [to Kip]
I can still taste you. I try to write with your taste in my mouth. [to Katharine]
I can't do this anymore. [to Almásy]
I have come to love that little tap of the fingernail against the syringe. Tap… Tap… Tap. [to Caravaggio]
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.
I long for the rain on my face. [to Hana]
I must be a curse. Anybody who loves me, anybody who gets close to me. . . —or I must be cursed. Which is it?
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]
I think I was a pilot.
I thought this is what Almasy said?
(?) There's a war. Where you come from becomes important.
I'm going to suprise her. It's our anniversary. She's forgotten, of course. [to Madox]
I'm not agreeing. Don't think I'm agreeing, because I'm not. [to Katharine]
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.
I've been thinking—how does someone like you decide to come to the desert? [to Almásy]