"[to Miss Lumley] This tragedy is little more than a week old and already three, three mark you, sets of parents have written advising me that their daughters will not be here next term. Now the newspapers have something further to sensationalise about. Newspapers all over the world have headlined our morbid affair Miss Lumley. I mean, you realise that I suppose."

"Au revoir mes enfants. Au revoir. Au revoir."

"[to Irma] I thought you had gone for ever."

"[to Mrs. Appleyard] Madam, something terrible has happened."

"The mountain comes to Muhammad, and Hanging Rock comes to Mr. Hussey."

"It stopped at twelve. It never stopped before. Must be something magnetic."

"This we do for pleasure, so that we may shortly be at the mercy of venomous snakes and poisonous ants. How foolish can human creatures be."

"Only a million years ago. Quite a recent eruption really. The rocks all round - Mount Macedon itself - must be all of 350 million years old. Siliceous lava, forced up from deep down below. Soda trachytes extruded in a highly viscous state, building the steep sided mamelons we see in Hanging Rock. And quite young geologically speaking. Barely a million years."

"Miranda knows lots of things other people don't know. Secrets. She knew she wouldn't come back."

"[to Minnie] She was afraid I'd run away, so she shaved my head. I bit her arm - it bled. So she painted my head with gentian violet."

"Waiting a million years, just for us."

"I remember - nothing! Nothing! I remember nothing!"

"Sara reminds me of a little deer Papa brought home once. I looked after it, but it died. Mama always said it was doomed."

"Miranda. Miranda. Miranda, don't go up there! Come back!"

"Except for those people down there, we might be the only living creatures in the whole world."

"Blanche says Sara writes poetry- in the dunny! She found one there on the floor, all about Miranda."

"Why can't we just sit on this log, and look at the ugly old rock from here? It's nasty here. I never thought it would be so nasty, or I wouldn't have come!"

"[first lines] What we see and what we seem are but a dream, a dream within a dream."

"Everything begins and ends at the exactly right time and place."

"Look! Not down at the ground, Edith. Way up there in the sky."

"You must learn to love someone else, apart from me, Sara. I won't be here much longer."

"Mr. Whitehead: There's some questions got answers and some haven't."

"Mrs. Fitzhubert: Don't go too far... and be careful! There could be snakes."

"Michael Fitzhubert: [repeated line] I think I'll just... eh... stretch my legs a bit."

"Miss Lumley: I believe Mrs. Appleyard's decided you're not to go to the picnic, Sara. That makes two of us."

"Albert Crundall: The old man hired me to look after the horses. I'm buggered if I'm gonna be likin' a bloody garden party."

"Marion: A surprising number of human beings are without purpose, though it is probable that they are performing some function unknown to themselves."

"A recollection of evil."

"We shall only be gone a little while..."

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"On St. Valentine's Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls set out to picnic at Hanging Rock. ...Some were never to return."

"Rachel Roberts as Mrs. Appleyard."

"Helen Morse as Mademoiselle de Poitiers."

"Kirsty Child as Miss Lumley."

"Jacki Weaver as Minnie."

"Martin Vaughan as Ben Hussey."

"Vivean Gray as Miss McCraw."