Lambert Hillyer

Biographical details

Portrait of Lambert Hillyer Lambert Hillyer,  The Shock (1923)

“ It isn't what you were, but what you are, that counts!"
"You mean a man's past doesn't count?—that there's always a chance—a chance to be something....different?"
"We can be anything we want—if the thought is right, and the will is behind the thought."
"In spite of everything?"
"What do you mean by...everything?"
"I'm a cripple—do you believe any amount of thinking can make me anything else?"
"Stranger things have happened—life without hope would be unbearable."
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Portrait of Lambert Hillyer Lambert Hillyer,  The Shock (1923)

“ That's why I blew up the bank."
"But my signatures—I live in fear that some day, she'll use them against my daughter!"
"Your daughter? I'd give my life to save Miss Gertrude a single tear - - where are those signatures?"
"Hidden in her home—it's no use, Dilling, I've tried to get them."
"For your daughter's sake, Mr. Hadley, don't leave this town—you leave Ann Cardington to me and everything will be all right."
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Portrait of Lambert Hillyer Lambert Hillyer,  The Shock (1923)

“ Dilling?"
"My best wishes, Miss Gertrude----"
"I hope you will be very, very happy."
"Cooper, if this Book is true; if there are such persons as Angels....she is one."
"No man living is good enough for her, but if you treat her right, I'll always be behind you."
"But if you don't, there's no power on earth can save you from me!"
That night, as usual, lights glowed behind the locked door and drawn curtains of the Hadley bank.
BANK
"How does it seem to be at the end of your rope?—to know you're a thief....a thief who's robbed his own bank—for a woman!"
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