"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."

"Wentworth Miller - David Scott"

"Tyron Leitso - Karl Scott"

"David Thewlis - Cyrus Crabb"

"Katie Carr - Marion Waldo"

"Jim Carter - Mayor Waldo Seville"

"Alice Krige - Rosemary Waldo"

"Colin Salmon - Oonu"

"Hannah Yelland - Romana Denison"

"Lee Evans - Zippeau (voice)"

"Terry Jones - Messenger Bird (voice)"

"Stuart Wilson - Frank Scott"

"Anna Maguire - Samantha"

"Geraldine Chaplin - Grandmother Oriana"

"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."

"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."

"How beautiful you are, Rose Red."

"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'."

"[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!"

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

"Nancy Travis - Joyce Reardon"

"Matt Keeslar - Steve Rimbauer"

"Julian Sands - Nick Hardaway"

"Kimberly J. Brown - Annie Wheaton"

"David Dukes - Dr. Carl Miller"

"Judith Ivey - Cathy Kramer"