"First of all, it was October, a rare month of boys; full of cold winds, long nights, dark promises. Days get short. The shadows lengthen. The wind warms in such a way, you want to run forever through the fields, because up ahead, ten thousand pumpkins lie waiting to be cut. It was the October of my 12th year when the seller of lightning rods came along the road toward Green Town, Illinois, sneaking glances over his shoulder. Somewhere not far back was a terrible storm. Even now, on those special autumn days, when the air smells like smoke, and the twilights are orange and ash gray, my mind goes back to Green Town, the place where I grew up. In my memory, I'm back on Main Street again, among the neighbors who gave me my first glimpses into the fearful needs of the human heart."

"Something frightening. Something strange. Something different."

"For my father, being old was all right now. He had freed himself from the shadows, and liberated our town. So, I think he knew on that bright morning, that he'd made a memory that would live as long as sons tell sons about fathers they love."

"[hearing a clock chime] Three o'clock. They call it the soul's midnight..."

"[to Will, who is crying] Tears, that's what they like! My God, how they like tears! Look, that's no way to save young Jim, Jump around, eh? Whoop and holler, Come on, look at me, eh? Look at me. I'm the great whooping crane. Whoop, whoop, whoop."

"What would you give a man who could make your deepest dreams come true?"

"Jason Robards - Charles Halloway"

"Yvonne Sciò - Deanna Petrie"

"Jimmi Simpson - Kevin Bollinger"

"Tsidii Le Loka - Sukeena"

"Julia Campbell - Ellen Gilchrist-Rimbauer"

"Emily Deschanel - Pam Asbury"

"Laura Kenny - Patricia Waterman"

"Judith Ivey - Cathy Kramer"

"Melanie Lynskey - Rachel "Sister" Wheaton"

"David Dukes - Dr. Carl Miller"

"Matt Ross - Emery Waterman"

"Julian Sands - Nick Hardaway"

"Kevin Tighe - Victor "Vic" Kandinsky"

"Kimberly J. Brown - Annie Wheaton"

"Rose Red won't let you have what you want, Joyce. It won't let anyone have what they want. Ellen Rimbauer designed it to break hearts as hers was broken, to hurt as she was hurt."

"[to sister] Sweetheart, taking Annie into a genuinely haunted house? I mean, that's like using your cigarette lighter to see how full your gas tank is!"

"Houses... are alive. This is something we know. News from our nerve endings. If we're quiet, if we listen, we can hear houses breathe. Sometimes, in the depth of the night, you can even hear them groan. It's as if they were having bad dreams. A good house cradles and comforts; a bad one fills us with instinctive unease. Bad houses hate our warmth and our human-ness. That blind hate of our humanity is what we mean when we use the word 'haunted'."

"It isn't finished until you say. Until you say."

"You could get out of the way or you could get run over; those were the options. In the year of 1906, you were on your own."

"The final official addition to Rose Red was the Tower Folly, built in the 1950's. A few additional sections were built according to the will of Ellen Rimbauer. From there on, Rose Red grew on its own."

"Nancy Travis - Joyce Reardon"

"How beautiful you are, Rose Red."

"I've got the makings of a good group. But these people are candles. Annie Wheaton's a searchlight. If anyone can wake up Rose Red, she can."

"Matt Keeslar - Steve Rimbauer"

"Disciples of the Watch- I stand before you; in the name of the one True God, who was cast out from heaven, but is alive in me. Do you hear me? [Crowd answers: "We hear and obey."] I command you now to seek out and destroy the Nazarene child. Slay the Nazarene and I reign forever. Fail, and I perish. Slay the Nazarene and you, my disciples, shall truly inherit this earth! Fail and you will be condemned to a numbing eternity in the flaccid bosom of Christ. Do you hear me? Disciples of the Watch: there must be no delay. Slay the Nazarene and victory shall be ours, now and forevermore. Do you hear me?"

"Most people confuse evil with their own trivial lusts and perversions. Now, true evil is as pure as innocence."

"Nazarene, charlatan, what can you offer humanity? Since the hour you vomited forth from the gaping wound of a woman, you have done nothing but drown man's soaring desires in a deluge of sanctimonious morality. You've inflamed the pubertal mind of youth with your repellent dogma of original sin. And now you absolve in denying them the ultimate joy beyond death by destroying me? But you will fail, Nazarene, as you have always failed. We were both created in man's image, but while you were born of an impotent god, I was conceived of a jackal. Born of Satan, the desolate one. Your pain on the cross was but a splinter compared to the agony of my father. Cast out of heaven, the fallen angel, banished, reviled. I will drive deeper the thorns into your rancid carcass, you profaner of Isis. Cursed Nazarene. Satan, I will avenge thy torment, by destroying the Christ forever."

"[Last words] Nazarene, you have won... nothing. [Collapses and dies]"

"Troy Evans - Deputy Charlie Bloch"

"Wendy Kaplan - Tina Williams"

"Tamara Glynn - Samantha Thomas"