- Carlo's friend: [in response to his lecture] What a wonderful future you've shown us.
- Doctor Génessier: The future, madame, is something we should have started on long ago.
- Louise: [in response to Christiane calling Jacques] Do you realize how reckless you're being?
- Christiane Génessier: I know. The dead should keep quiet. Then let me be dead for good. Please let me die. I can't stand it anymore!
- Louise: She's happy this time. She has faith.
- Doctor Génessier: Finally.
- Louise: I showed her how nicely it's healing. I changed the bandages. It looks fine. Much better than yesterday.
- Doctor Génessier: I'm so afraid.
- Louise: Don't be. I have faith this time, too.
- Doctor Génessier: All I can do is hope.
- Doctor Génessier: A new face, a new identity.
- Louise: You're more beautiful than ever. There's something angelic about you now.
- Christiane Génessier: Angelic? I don't know about that. When I look in a mirror, I feel I'm looking at someone who looks like me, but seems to come from the beyond, from the beyond.
- L'inspecteur Parot: It's a strange business, but that's how it looks to me. When Génessier's daughter vanished from the clinic, her face was an open wound.
- Le docteur Lherminier - médecin légiste: The missing facial tissue confirms your theory. The car accident, the facial burns, the long immersion in the river.
- L'inspecteur Parot: And the rats, Doctor. Don't forget the rats.
- Le docteur Lherminier - médecin légiste: Something doesn't quite make sense.
- L'inspecteur Parot: What's odd is the body was fished out naked - in a man's coat.
- Le docteur Lherminier - médecin légiste: Why should Génessier's daughter, distraught at her disfigurement, feel the need to strip naked in mid-winter before drowning herself?
- Doctor Génessier: There's no reason for you to doubt me. I know my abilities, don't I? You'll have a real face. I promise you.
- Christiane Génessier: I see horrible things. I'm living them! What have you done now?
- Doctor Génessier: What had to be done. For your own good. Always for your good, Christiane.
- L'homme de la fourrière: This morning, bargemen fished a girl's body out fo the Seine. The time of drowning coincides with that of your daughter's disappearance. The description also fits. The damaged face - only the eyes are intact.
- Le docteur Jacques Vernon: A pearl choker?
- L'inspecteur Parot: That ring a bell?
- Le docteur Jacques Vernon: Hold on. Yes, it reminds me of someone.
- Paulette Meroudon: What do I have to do?
- L'inspecteur Parot: Bleach your hair, for starters.
- Paulette Meroudon: You're kidding.
- L'inspecteur Parot: No. That's not our style. You have to be much blonder.
- Paulette Meroudon: It won't suit me.
- L'inspecteur Parot: It doesn't matter.