Banah Quotes in The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954)

Banah: To women of courage we give a choice. Stay with us or we will sell you in Bokara to the highest bidder.

Hajji Baba: My name is Hajji. I am from Ispahan. I have the skills of a barber. I bleed, poultice, set limbs. You have need of me. I can heal you.

Banah: I do have a need for you.

Hajji Baba: And my apprentice, Shir Ali?

Banah: If you heal me, I will spare you both. If not...

[Banah glances at her victims dangling by their wrists in the scorching sun]

Banah: I prefer to choose rather than be chosen.

Banah: Where are the others? They rot in the sun. When their ardor cools...

Hajji Baba: ...Mine will increase with each passing day.