- Derek Barnes: It's times like this that you crave the strange. It helps make the world make more sense. It makes the crazy normal, and the unreal real. Because, the unthinkable, without it...all you've got left is reality.
- Vince Elsing: Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night thinking something is in your house? You know, heard a noise you couldn't quite make out? So you get up, turn the whole damn place upside-down, 'cause you gotta make sure that your little world is still safe and sound, still just the way you left it? That ever happen to you, Mr. Barnes?
- Derek Barnes: Yes.
- Vince Elsing: Well, now suppose that all those times you thought you heard a footstep, or flash of something out of the corner of your eye, you really did.
- Derek Barnes: Like what?
- Vince Elsing: Like... something else. Something fearsome. They fed on it, the fear. Like sharks to blood. The only way to stay safe is to push that terror back down, deep inside your belly. Because the second you feel it, the second you let it rise back up into your soul, that's when they come.
- [In a dream]
- Adam Barnes: I've been calling you. Why haven't you been answering my calls?
- Derek Barnes: You're dead.
- Adam Barnes: Oh yeah...that.