"Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words."

"It's a lie. It's a bunch of sad strangers photographed beautifully, and... all the glittering assholes who appreciate art say it's beautiful 'cause that's what they wanna see. But the people in the photos are sad, and alone... But the pictures make the world seem beautiful, so... the exhibition is reassuring, which makes it a lie. And everyone loves a big fat lie."

"Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off... but it's better if you do."

"Hello, stranger."

"Giovanni Ribisi - Narrator"

"Hayden Christensen - Jake Hill Conley"

"Danny DeVito - Dr. Horniker"

"Scott Glenn - Father Moody"

"Michael Paré - adult Trip Fontaine"

"Jonathan Tucker - Tim Weiner"

"Noah Shebib - Parkie Denton"

"Robert Schwartzman - Paul Baldino"

"Lee Kagan - David Barker"

"Anthony Desimone - Chase Buell"

"Chelse Swain - Bonnie Lisbon"

"Leslie Hayman - Therese Lisbon"

"Hanna R. Hall - Cecilia Lisbon"

"A.J. Cook - Mary Lisbon"

"Josh Hartnett - Trip Fontaine"

"Kirsten Dunst - Lux Lisbon"

"Kathleen Turner - Mrs. Lisbon"

"James Woods - Mr. Lisbon"

"Beautiful, mysterious, haunting, invariably fatal. Just like life."

"Love Sex Passion Fear Obsession"

"Trip Fontaine: You're a stone fox."

"When she jumped, she probably thought she could fly."

"What we have here is a dreamer. Someone completely out of touch with reality."

"I liked her a lot, but it was different out on the field. I never saw her again."

"She was the still point of the turning world, man."

"So much has been said about the girls over the years. But we have never found an answer. It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls... but only that we had loved them... and that they hadn't heard us calling... still do not hear us calling them from out of those rooms... where they went to be alone for all time... and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together."

"Given Lux's failure to make curfew everyone expected a crackdown, but few anticipated it would be so drastic. The girls were taken out of school, and Mrs. Lisbon shut the house in maximum-security isolation."

"We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy. And how you ended up knowing what colors went together."

"Almost every day, and even when she wasn't keeping an eye on Cecilia, Lux would suntan wearing a swimsuit that caused the knife sharpener to give her a 15-minute demonstration for free."

"Collecting everything we could of theirs, the Lisbon girls wouldn't leave our minds but they were slipping away. The color of their eyes was fading along with the exact locations... of moles and dimples. From five, they had become four, and they were all the living and the dead, becoming shadows. We would have lost them completely if the girls hadn't contacted us."

"No one could understand how Mrs. Lisbon and Mr. Lisbon, our math teacher, could produce such beautiful creatures."

"We knew that they knew everything about us, and that we couldn't fathom them at all."

"We knew the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love, and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them."

"In the end we had pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained. Oddly shaped emptiness mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name. What lingered after them was not life, but the most trivial list of mundane facts. A clock ticking on the wall, a room dim at noon, the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself."

"Palazzolo jumped off the roof over that rich bitch Porter. How stupid can you be?"

"[voiceover, reading from her diary] The trees, like lungs, filling with air. My sister - the mean one - pulling my hair."

"[voiceover, reading from her diary] Lux lost it over Kevin Haynes, the garbageman. She'd wake up at 5 in the morning and lay about on the front porch like it wasn't completely obvious! She wrote his name in marker in all her bras and underwear and mum found them and bleached out all the Kevins. Lux has been crying on her bed all day"