"I was slipping away, that's what it felt like, life was leaving me, but I wasn't afraid; then I remembered: "There was something I was meant to do; somewhere I was meant to be.""

"Carolyn Dando - Ruth Connors"

"Jake Abel - Brian Nelson"

"Amanda Michalka - Clarissa"

"Charlie Saxton - Ronald Drake"

"Reece Ritchie - Ray Singh"

"Christian Thomas Ashdale -Buckley Salmon"

"Michael Imperioli - Detective Len Fenerman"

"Susan Sarandon - Grandma Lynn"

"Stanley Tucci - George Harvey"

"Rose McIver - Lindsey Salmon"

"Rachel Weisz - Abigail Salmon"

"Mark Wahlberg - Jack Salmon"

"Saoirse Ronan - Susie Salmon"

"The story of a life and everything that came after..."

"Grandma Lynn predicted I would live a long life because I had saved my brother. As usual, Grandma Lynn was wrong."

"I was in the blue horizon between heaven and earth. The days were unchanging and every and every night, I dream the same dream. The smell of damp earth. The scream no one heard. The sound of my heart beating like a hammer against cloth and I would hear them calling, the voices of the dead. I wanted to follow them to find a way out but I would always come back to the same door. And I was afraid. I knew if I went in there I would never come out."

"Holly said there was a wide, wide heaven beyond everything we knew; where there was no cornfield, no memory, no grave... but I wasn't looking beyond yet, I was still looking back."

"I wasn't lost, or frozen, or gone... I was alive; I was alive in my own perfect world."

"My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. I took his photo once; he stepped out of nowhere and ruined the shot. He ruined a lot of things."

"There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child."

"Always, I would watch Ray; I was in the air around him, I was in the cold winter mornings he spent with Ruth Connors; and sometimes Ray would think of me, but he began to wonder maybe it was time to put that memory away, maybe it was time to let me go."

"From a secret world no one could see...came a crime no one could believe."

"She is most unreasonable. Why could not mother die? Dozens of people are dying all the time, thousands, so why not mother? And father too."

"[voiceover, from her diary] We have decided how sad it is for others that they cannot appreciate our genius."

"[narrating] We realized why Deborah and I have such extraordinary telepathy and why people treat us and look at us the way they do. It is because we are MAD. We are both stark raving MAD!"

"[from her diary] My new year's resolution is a far more selfish one than last year. It is to make my motto, eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow, you may be dead."

"[narrating] This notion is not a new one but this time it is a definite plan which we intend to carry out. We have worked it out carefully and are both thrilled by the idea. Naturally we feel a trifle nervous, but the pleasure of anticipation is great."

"[narration] The next time I write in this diary, Mother will be dead. How odd... yet how pleasing."

"It's a three act story with a tragic end."

"Only the best people fight against all obstacles in pursuit of happiness."

"All the best people have bad chests and bone diseases. It's all frightfully romantic."

"Affairs are much more exciting than marriages. [pause] As Mummy can testify."

"Stick it up your bottom!"

"[about the murder of Honora Parker] I think she knows what's going to happen. She doesn't appear to bear us any grudge."

"Not all angels are innocent."

"The true story of a crime that shocked a nation."

"Melanie Lynskey - Pauline Parker"

"Kate Winslet - Juliet Hulme"

"Sarah Peirse - Honora Parker"

"Diana Kent - Hilda Hulme"

"Clive Merrison - Dr. Henry Hulme"

"Simon O'Connor - Herbert Rieper"

"Jed Brophy - John ("Nicholas")"

"Peter Elliott - Bill Perry"

"Gilbert Goldie - Dr. Bennett"

"Elizabeth Moody - Miss Waller"

"Undertaker: [as Vera's eyes pop out and green slime sprays out] Cranial blowout!"

"Intellectual: [defending himself against oncoming zombies] Some of my best friends are Pedophiles! [His famous last words]"

"Intellectual at party: [struggling against an attack by Void] I take it back! [Void snarls] I'm sorry I called Nabokov a pedophile!"