"The voice you hear is not my speaking voice - but my mind's voice. I have not spoken since I was six years old. No on…"

"I teach piano now in Nelson. George has fashioned me a metal finger tip, I am quite the town freak which satisfies! I…"

"At night I think of my piano in its ocean grave, and sometimes of myself floating above it. Down there everything is …"

"One day when my mother and father were singing together in the forest, a great storm blew up out of nowhere. But so p…"

"[to Ada] Do you know how to bargain, nod if you do. [she doesn't move] There's a way you can have your piano back. Do…"

"[to Ada] I have given the piano back to you. I've had enough. The arrangement is making you a whore, and me, wretched…"

"Ada, I am unhappy because I want you, because my mind has seized on you and thinks of nothing else. This is how I suf…"

"[to Baines] Understand me. I am here for her, for her I wonder that I don't wake, that I am not asleep to be here tal…"

"Holly Hunter - Ada McGrath"

"Harvey Keitel - George Baines"