"Do you really think it's so crazy to draw parallels between the power of the atom bomb and the power of black magic? Do you really think that a weapon capable of destroying cities in seconds and killing thousands of people is so far removed from the Devil's work? To me it was obvious. I saw that the two different powers could be bought together and do what they had never done before."

"If I told you everything I'm about to tell you now, my reputation, everything I've worked for, would disappear overnight. It makes no sense. Not in the real world, anyway. Susan Ashwood may have seemed eccentric to you. You might have thought she was a fraud. However, I'm telling you she was right. There is another world. We are surrounded by it. There is an alternative history as alive in the streets of twenty-first century London as it was many thousands of years ago, when it all began. But only cranks and lunatics are meant to believe in it, because you see, that way everyone feels safer..."

"(Sarcastically, to Professor Dravid) Let me get this straight, Professor. A very long time ago, the world was ruled by evil creatures called the Old Ones. However, five kids appeared and threw them out. The kids erected a barrier, which became known as Raven's Gate. Unfortunately the stones that marked the gate were knocked down by Medieval peasants who didn't know any better. But that doesn't matter that much because the gate is still there after all. Is that about it?"

"I'm going to put them down."

"Nice dogs... Stay!"

"(About Matt's trainers) Are you kidding? The washing machine hasn't been built that could handle all that muck!"

"You seem like a nice enough kid, Matthew."

"But the police came and nothing was there and so, maybe, you imagined the whole thing."

"OK, yes. I've heard of Omega One. They built it as a sort of prototype... Before they started building the real things. But they shut it down before I was born. There's nothing there now. It's just an empty shell."

"Well look... What you've just told me is complete... Crap! Lanes that go round in circles| Strange looks from the villagers! I know I said I wanted a story, Matt! But I didn't mean a fairy story!"

"How Matthew? ...Do you watch a lot of TV?"

"You're just lucky I didn't stay for another pint."

"That's when I heard someone shouting for help and then I found you."

"(To Matt) There were some parts of your story... Well, I couldn't get them out of your head. So I went by to investigate."

"(To Superintendent Stephen Mallory) You told me the LEAF project was voluntary. Well, I'm volunteering myself out. I don't care where you send me. You can lock me up in Alcatraz if you want to. But this place sucks and I want to go."

"(To his "friend" Kelvin when Kelvin stabs the security guard) I know that! But you didn't have to stab him! Do you realize what you've done? Do you realize what you are?"

"(About Jayne Deverill) She had a picture of an ancestor. She said she got burned. Maybe she was burned as a witch... Anyway, if there were witches there four thousand years ago, why can't there be witches there now?"

"(To Richard) So you don't believe in magic?"

"So maybe next time when I turn up floating face down in a river, maybe you'll decide it's worth investigating. And I'm telling you now, I won't have died from bad eyesight."

"You saw the dogs! Did you think they'd come from the Battersea Dog's Home?"

"There's been a murder. A man named Tom Burgess. He's dead. I saw the body."

"OK, Mr Cole. I can see I've wasted my time coming here."