The Shining Hour (1938)

Fay Bainter: Hannah Linden

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• Henry Linden : [Referring to Maggie]  Hannah, isn't she all I said?

  Hannah Linden : [Cattily]  I'm sure she is, Henry, and more.

• Hannah Linden : Coffee, David?

  David Linden : I don't want any.

  Hannah Linden : You should. You've had no sleep.

  David Linden : I'm quite aware of that, Hannah. I don't want any coffee. I tell ya I don't want any!

  Hannah Linden : David!

  David Linden : Oh stop Daviding me. Minding other people's business. That's what's wrong with you, you haven't enough of your own. Well I'll give you some!

  [picks coffee cup up and smashes it on the floor] 

  David Linden : There, get busy with that. Lots of little pieces, Hannah, just for you. Try to put them together again. We'll all be busy doing that!

• Hannah Linden : Let it burn. It needs to burn!

• Hannah Linden : It's the fires of hell, Henry, and you can't put it out!

• Hannah Linden : I'm sorry, Judy. My intentions were good.

  Judy Linden : Yes, I'm sure they were, Hannah. It's just that you were born with a strong sense of interference, and I'm... afraid you'll die with one.

• Hannah Linden : [to Henry]  A woman's love should only go one way, to one man. There are women whose love reaches out to every man, like the tongues of a fire that capture and consume. Send her away, Henry, before she destroys us all!

  [referring to Olivia]