- Nick Bannister: Nothing is more addictive than the past. Who wouldn't want to be reunited with a loved one? Or relive the most meaningful moments of their life? But memories, even good ones, have a voracious appetite. If you're not careful, they consume you.
- Nick Bannister: You're going on a journey. A journey through memory. Your destination? A place and time you've been before. To reach it, all you have to do is follow my voice.
- Mae: Maybe memory fades for a reason. If we just dwelled on the bad things in the past, we'd never get over them. And if we just dwelled on the good, we might never match it again.
- Nick Bannister: Dying men always want closure. Some last, happy thought to cling to before they die.
- Nick Bannister: People love their secrets. They think secrets are the one thing they can take with them when they go.
- Nick Bannister: Forgotten things can always be fished up and dusted off. But the lost, those things people never really took much notice of until they were gone. They're defined by their absence.
- Emily 'Watts' Sanders: Missing people is a part of this world. Without that sadness you can't taste the sweet.
- Emily 'Watts' Sanders: The problem with going dry is the mind is clear. But the hands... they shake.
- Nick Bannister: [Nick and Emily are sharing a medicinal drink] I've got my leg, what's your excuse ?
- Emily 'Watts' Sanders: I work for you.
- Titch: Grandma, you miss him, don't you?
- Emily 'Watts' Sanders: Missing people is a part of this world. Without that sadness, you can't taste the sweet. A long time ago we both chose our endings. He turned back, and I looked ahead. I like to think that we both chose right for ourselves.
- Nick Bannister: [narrating] The barons stay afloat by drowning everyone else. They say the only ones to survive the Titanic were the rich and the rats. The barons are both.
- Mae: Tell me a story.
- Nick Bannister: A story? What kind of story?
- Mae: One with a happy ending.
- Nick Bannister: No such thing as a happy ending. All endings are sad, especially if the story was happy.
- Mae: Then tell me a happy story, but end it in the middle.
- Mae: [to Nick] People like us don't fall in love. We plummet to places, deep and dark. But love? Love is the thing we climb to.
- [last lines]
- Nick Bannister: I thought of story. It's a tragedy. But only if you stop at the end. Ever hear of Orpheus and Eurydice? They were a couple very in love. Until one day Eurydice died.
- Mae: That's a horrible story.
- Nick Bannister: I'm not in the middle yet. Orpheus descended to Hell, begged the Devil to release her, until finally the Devil agreed, with one condition. He couldn't look back until they had escaped.
- Mae: And what happened?
- Nick Bannister: Orpheus took her by the hand and led her back to life.
- Mae: And they lived happily ever after?
- Nick Bannister: What other ending could there be?
- Nick Bannister: [narrating] The past can haunt a man. That's what they say. That the past is just a series of moments. Each one perfect. Complete. A bead on the necklace of time.
- Nick Bannister: The past doesn't haunt us. Wouldn't even recognize us. If there are ghosts to be found, it's us who haunt the past. We haunt it, so we can look again. See the people we miss, and the things we missed about them.
- Emily 'Watts' Sanders: [putting a tie on him] You're late.
- Nick Bannister: Late is a construct of linear time. We don't deal in that.
- Emily 'Watts' Sanders: And yet, we charge by the hour. Your first appointment's already in.
- Nick Bannister: [narrating] Most burners are torn apart by the worlds they straddle, the real one around them, and the one playing in their mind. Only the rich mold the world to meet their delusions.