- Lewis Venable: In that fearfully incredible moment I knew I had plunged off a precipice into the past. That here was Juliana beyond belief, beautiful, alluring, alive. How strange this was, this Tina, who walked dead among the living and living among the dead, filling me with a nameless fear! I had a sudden impulse to turn and leave, and then I remembered the letters.
- Father Rinaldo: [Describing Miss Juliana's medical condition] From a medical point of view she's dying, but then she's been dying for many years.
- Lewis Venable: Had Jeffrey Ashton once lived in this cold, forbidding house? I felt the past close in around me like a fog. The door to the present shut behind me.
- Lewis Venable: Miss Bordereau, I shouldn't like to come here against your will.
- Tina Bordereau: [Referring to Juliana] It's her will that counts.