"Doldrums. Doldrums. Eviler than the Devil. Boredom makes men to villains, and the water goes quick, lad, vanished. The only med'cine is drink. Keeps them sailors happy, keeps 'em agreeable, keeps 'em calm…"

"Who are you again, Tommy? I'm probably a figment of yer imagination. This rock is a figment of yer imagination, too. Yer probably wanderin' through a grove of tag alders, up north in Canady, like a frostbitten maniac talkin' to yerself, knee-deep in the snow, the blizzard overtakin' ye."

"Valeriia Karaman as mermaid"

"And I had ‘im handy and helpless. Alone. Too far downstream. And I wanted to do ‘im in. I admit I did. Seein’ the back of his head. One swipe of the cant hook’d be all. It was... I didn’t... but I didn’t... I did not. The day was long as hell on that drive. I was lead-tired. I admit it. But I saw him slippin’, not me. And we saw the jam comin’. And I stood and he slipped. He shouted up. And I just stood. “Tom, you dog!” And I stood, is all. Just stood and watched ‘im git swallowed down by them logs. All I thought when he was done is, “I could use me a smoke.” That’s it. So, I packed up his kit and fixins, as if they was mine. And, well, Ephraim Winslow has a spiffy clean slate. Thomas Howard, he don’t. No prospects. How else am I gonna find respectable work?"

"If I had a steak... I'd fuck it."

"I'm damn-well wedded to this here light, and she's been a finer, truer, quieter wife than any alive-blooded woman."

":Cf. Lydia Sigourney, "Sailor's Hymn, at Parting""

"Why’d ya spill yer beans?"

"O what Protean forms swim up from men's minds, and melt in hot Promethean plunder, scorching eyes, with divine shames and horror... And casting them down to Davy Jones. The others, still blind, yet in it see all the divine graces and to Fiddler's Green sent, where no man is suffered to want or toil, but is... Ancient... Mutable and unchanging as the she who girdles 'round the globe. Them's truth."

"And if I tells ye to yank out every single nail from every molderin' nail-hole and suck off every speck of rust till all them nails sparkle like a sperm whale's pecker, and then carpenter the whole light station back together from scrap, and then do it all over again, you'll do it! And by God and by golly, you'll do it smilin', lad, 'cause you'll like it. You'll like it 'cause I says you will! Contradict me again, and I'll dock your wages."

"Rob Pattinson as Ephraim Winslow"

"Willem Dafoe as Thomas Wake"

"How long have we been on this rock? Five weeks? Two days? Where are we? Help me to recollect."

"Should pale death with treble dread Make the oceän caves our bed, God who hear'st the surges roll, Deign to save our suppliant soul."

"Lugene Sanders — Meg Hubbard"

"Susan Gordon — Sandy Hubbard"

"Juli Reding — Vi Mason"

"Joe Turkel — Nick"

"Lillian Adams — Mrs. Ellis"

"Harry Fleer — Frank Hubbard"

"Vera Marshe — Mrs. Hubbard"

"Gene Roth — Mr. Nelson"

"The She-Ghost of Haunted Island!"

"A Terrifying Story of Supernatural Passion!"

"Richard Carlson — Tom Stewart"

"From across the still water came the languorous perfume of oleanders and orange blossoms."

"Please be nice to me, Millie. Something terrible will happen if you're not."

"Life is so dreadfully in the dark. There are maps to guide us to strange places, but none for souls."