The Enchanted Cottage (1945)

Herbert Marshall: Major John Hillgrove

Quotes 

• Oliver Bradford : Well, apparently you don't complain!

  Major John Hillgrove : You haven't given me a chance.

• Major John Hillgrove : You've got to have faith in yourself. You're a person, you're not just a case; you're a complete individual, remember that. You're like a man who's come across a place in the road where it branches off into many little side paths; you don't want to go ahead, you want to go back. You're confused. You don't trust yourself.

  Oliver Bradford : Why should I? How can I trust myself?

  Major John Hillgrove : You must.

• Major John Hillgrove : Well, in place of these two eyes that are gone, I have a hundred invisible ones that see things as they really are. The other senses come to your aid -- touch, smell, sound. There comes a heightening of perceptions, a sort of sensitivity to all living things. For instance, nature is more beautiful than I knew it and human beings are more understandable. Sometimes I feel it was before the Argonne that I was blind and it's only now that I see.