Slimene Quotes in Isabelle Eberhardt (1991)

Isabelle Eberhardt: Isn't there any place for dreamers anymore, Slimene?

Slimene: Sure. The whole world is run by them.

Slimene: When God made us meet it must have been in fulfilment of a curse.

Isabelle Eberhardt: What curse?

Slimene: That neither of us will be happy.

Isabelle Eberhardt: I wasn't happy a long time before I met you.

Isabelle Eberhardt: I want to go back to Africa, Slimene.

Slimene: Why?

Isabelle Eberhardt: There is something there. Something I just got a glimpse of at the end.

Slimene: What?

Isabelle Eberhardt: Peace.

Slimene: Peace? You nearly got killed.

Isabelle Eberhardt: Yes, peace. The peace of the soul.

Slimene: Listen to me, Mahmood. I don't know what you thought when you married me, but in an Arab house the man is the boss.

Isabelle Eberhardt: Then show me the man.