How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from The English Patient.
Quote #4
ALMÁSY: I think you've got the wrong end of the stick, old boy.
Here is an example of platonic love. Or maybe filial love, the love of a child for a parent. Hana loves Almásy but not romantically. She either loves him as a friend, or as a stand in for her own father.
Quote #5
HANA: I'm not in love with him. I'm in love with ghosts. So is he. He's in love with ghosts.
Caravaggio accuses Hana of loving Almásy in a romantic sense. She clarifies that she does not. But both Almásy and Hana are haunted by romantic loves of the past. Romantic love might be the strongest—and most dangerous—love.
Quote #6
BERMANN: How do you explain to someone who has never been here, feelings which seem quite normal?
What is it about the desert that rewrites the rules of love? Is the desert itself, and its shifting sands? Or is it simply being so far from home? Many characters fall in love with people that they probably wouldn't love if they were back home. Almásy and Katharine. Hana and Kip. And here, Bermann, a married man, and a young man named Kamal.