Jennifer Jones credited as playing...
Dr. Han Suyin
- Dr. Han Suyin: I will make no mistakes in the name of loneliness. I have my work and an uncomplicated life. I don't want to feel anything again... ever.
- Mark Elliott: Are we going swimming?
- Dr. Han Suyin: Mark, going out with you once was harmless enough. I don't want my seeing you to be awkward. Hong Kong has a peculiar code and malice is a pleasant pastime for women with nothing to do.
- Dr. Han Suyin: If we were in Chungking, Mr. Elliott, Third Uncle would consider it unpardonable to accept. No Chinese girl would dare dine alone with an American she had just met.
- Dr. Han Suyin: Oh, Mark. We both know that even the fat, ugly people of this world believe that being in love makes them beautiful and justifies everything.
- Mark Elliott: What incredible hands you have. They curve like a Balinese dancer's.
- Dr. Han Suyin: I have always been afraid of hands. Men's hands. I am not afraid of yours.
- Mark Elliott: You still think we have no destiny together?
- Dr. Han Suyin: I have decided one thing. That you must decide. For you are stronger than I am.
- Mark Elliott: No, I think you're the strong one.
- Dr. Han Suyin: Then you are wrong. For you are gentle, and there is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness
- Mark Elliott: I really can't believe that you're a doctor, Doctor.
- Dr. Han Suyin: What a shame we haven't a scalpel with us. I could make a slight incision to convince you.
- Dr. Han Suyin: So you're a reporter?
- Mark Elliott: Please. A correspondent.
- Dr. Han Suyin: What's the difference?
- Mark Elliott: About $100 a week.
- Dr. Han Suyin: Do you know that in Peking the moon is larger than anyplace else in the world?
- Mark Elliott: Now, that's very unscientific. It's the same size everywhere.
- Dr. Han Suyin: Oh, no, the moon is larger in Peking - much larger than in Hong Kong and London.
- Mark Elliott: All right. If you insist.
- Mark Elliott: Say, when I called you earlier, they said you were doing a hysterectomy. What's a hysterectomy?
- Dr. Han Suyin: Nothing that would interest you.
- Dr. Han Suyin: It wouldn't be good for you to see too much of me anyhow. Might even be harmful.
- Mark Elliott: Oh? Why?
- Dr. Han Suyin: I'm Eurasian. The word itself seems to suggest a certain moral laxity in the minds of some people. People never think of the meaning of words. They only feel them.
- Mark Elliott: Well, you're talking about stupid people.
- Dr. Han Suyin: Make no mistake, I.. I'm proud to be Eurasian. I like to think we combine the best qualities of both races. That we're the answer to race snobbery.
- Mark Elliott: Well, you're certainly the answer to a lot of things for me.
- Mark Elliott: You know, in the last few weeks I've come alive. I like it.
- Dr. Han Suyin: You've been good for me, Mark. I don't feel that the whole world is sick any longer.
- Dr. Han Suyin: I'm so happy, it frightens me. I have a feeling that heaven is unfair and is preparing for you and for me a great sadness because we have been given so much.
- Mark Elliott: Darling, whatever happens, always remember: Nothing is fair nor unfair under heaven.
- Dr. Han Suyin: [Explaing to Mark why each family member has given Suyin a small piece of their personal jade jewelry] We believe that jade, if worn long enough, becomes the person who wears it. They have given me something of themselves to take away.
- Dr. Han Suyin: [upon learning that Mark is being sent to Korea as a correspondent] But... But why Korea?
- Mark Elliott: North Korea invaded the South. They crossed the 38th parallel last night. There isn't much time. We have to pack.
- Dr. Han Suyin: It's only a little war, isn't it?
- Mark Elliott: That's hard to tell.
- Dr. Han Suyin: Will it... Will it last long?
- Mark Elliott: Oh, I don't think very long. A couple of weeks, maybe three.
- Dr. Han Suyin: Could you possibly not go?
- Mark Elliott: No, I could not possibly not go.
- Dr. Han Suyin: I thought not. Our gorgeous lie did not even last the night.
- Dr. Han Suyin: Every woman in love should have a secret garden.
- Mark Elliott: And every man in love should have a mountain.
- Dr. Sen: When do you leave the hospital, Suyin?
- Dr. Han Suyin: Tomorrow.
- Dr. Sen: In a week I'm returning to China. Have you thought about going back?
- Dr. Han Suyin: I must stay in Hong Kong.
- Dr. Sen: Because of Mr. Elliott?
- Dr. Han Suyin: Yes, as a matter of fact.
- Dr. Sen: So, you're willing to sacrifice your country and many men for a romantic attachment to one man - a man who will not even marry you?
- Dr. Han Suyin: [protesting] Sen...
- Dr. Sen: Where's your pride, Suyin?
- Dr. Han Suyin: I will not allow you to make me feel small, selfish or ashamed.
- Dr. Sen: Forget this man, Suyin. It is a weakness unworthy of you. There's no longer any place in the world for weakness.
- Dr. Han Suyin: Then there is no place for doctors, since our whole approach to weakness is sympathetic.
- Dr. Sen: China has been reborn, Suyin. Our people are free at last.
- Dr. Han Suyin: Sen, refugees pour into Hong Kong at the rate of 3,000 a day. As a man who believes in this New Order, doesn't it disturb you that so many flee from "freedom"?