"That kid, he lays his hand on the deer while it's still shaking, and then he touches me at the same time. Now, I can't figure out why — till my heart starts pounding, and I'm shaking, and I'm feeling myself hurt and scared shitless, slipping away in the goddamned dark. That's the worst thing I ever felt. Its like I could feel that animal dying. Hell, it was like I was the goddamned thing."

"You ever see so many goddamned lightning rods on one house?"

"I got twenty different kids telling me twenty different stories."

"We've got something out here nobody's gonna believe."

"We're stumbling around in a very dark age basically trying not to kill each other. So it hurts me when you say "So what?" Because you are not just different, Jeremy, I think you have a mind that we won't evolve to for like thousands of years — you're maybe the man of the future right here and now."

"Something's happened here. Something's happened here. I'm telling you, with everything we know, about science, about the makeup of the human body, what happened in that classroom is impossible. That kid attracted an arc of electricity from thirty feet away, and not just from the Jacob's Ladder, I mean, after a second it was like it was coming out of the whole… building."

"Energy, always relaying, always transforming, and never-ending."

"That was some light-show. People are going to be talking about that to their grandkids grandkids around here."

"I'm telling you. I've never seen anything like him. … Because of the way he's lived — he doesn't seem to know what things are. I mean, things you and I take for granted, common everyday objects, simple ideas. I just don't think he's ever been exposed to them. He's about the most well-read teenage kid you could ever meet, but in other ways, I think he's a lot like a little child."

"She didn't go some place… your wife. I felt her go. Not "away", just "out" — everywhere."

"She says she believes in miracles now, and that you should too. … She thinks I'm an angel. Come to take her home, and to bring you and Steven together again, and remind you of how much you still are in each other's hearts."

"Have you ever listened to people from the inside? Listened so close you can hear their thoughts — and all their memories. Hear them think from places they don't even know they think from?"

"They were afraid to touch me after a while — my grandma and grandpa. They got really scared."

"I want to go home. Do you understand that? I want to go home. … I saw that I don't like what you do. Any of you. … You pretend to be my friend, the way you pretend everything. A friend doesn't lock you up. A friend doesn't take you away from your home, and say that its for your own good. How long do you really think I'll let you keep me here?"

"I could never watch television."

"Ellie Kendrick - Tina"

"Matthew Beard - Graham"

"Sally Hawkins - Sarah Goldman"

"Cara Seymour - Marjorie Mellor"

"Alfred Molina - Jack Mellor"

"Olivia Williams - Miss Stubbs"

"Emma Thompson - Miss Walters"

"Rosamund Pike - Helen"

"Dominic Cooper - Danny"

"Peter Sarsgaard - David Goldman"

"Carey Mulligan - Jenny Mellor"

"Innocence of the Young."

"Someone told me that in about 50 years, no one will speak Latin, probably. Not even Latin people."

"Knowing a famous author is better than becoming one. It shows you're connected."

"The life I want, there is no shortcut."

"Max von Sydow - Thor Carlsson"

"Jeremy Irons - Father Gabriel"