The Water Diviner Quotes

  • Connor: Are there any more records about my son?

    Jemal: We are Ottomans, not Germans.

  • Lt-Col Cyril Hughes: What were you doing before the war?

    Major Hasan: This is Ottoman Empire, there is no such a thing as before the war here. But in another life I was an architect.

  • Lt-Col Cyril Hughes: Yeah, We both know it, but why change everything for one father who can't stay put?

    Major Hasan: Because he is the only father who came looking.

  • Connor: She wanted them buried in consecrated ground.

    Lt-Col Cyril Hughes: How much blood do you need for it to be holy?

  • Lt-Col Cyril Hughes: We lost over two thousand men in those four days at Lone Pine. The Turks lost seven thousand. We didn't take too many prisoners either. I don't know if I'd forgive any of us.

  • Connor: Hope's a necessity where I come from.

  • Colonel Demergelis: [about to be executed] Don't invade a country if you don't know where it is.

  • Connor: [to Artie] I'm not leaving without you. I've buried your mother. I've buried your brothers. If you're not coming with me I have nowhere to go. Either we leave here together or we'll die here... together.

  • Ayshe: [Hitting rug which is hung up on a washing line to get rid of the dust]

    Dr. Ibrahim: [Starts plucking a live chicken which is sat on his lap, which makes the chicken squawk]

    Ayshe: Father, stop! Stop, stop, stop. We haven't killed it yet, Father.

    Dr. Ibrahim: [Dr. Ibrahim who has dementia, looks at his daughter, and pulls a confused face]

Extended Reading
  • Augustus 2022-03-26 09:01:09

    Blanket Fairy Tales ~ Those white supremacy, generous Turkish, restrained British, and despicable Greeks are just one of the various planes of history, just like in the Zhengda Theater when I was a child. In a world with hard choices, the dead children and the lost parents meet again and have love again~Tears~

  • Courtney 2022-03-26 09:01:09

    It's not good, it's not bad