- Pizza Delivery Guy: Hey, this is some place, huh? Is it haunted?
- Emery: Yeah. By the ghosts of delivery men who asked too many stupid questions and never escaped.
- Joyce: Houses... are alive. This is something we know. News from our nerve endings. If we're quiet, if we listen, we can hear houses breath. Sometimes, in the depth of the night, you can even hear them groan. It's as if they were having bad dreams. A good house cradles and comforts, a basd one fills us with instinctive unease. Bad houses hate our warmth and our human-ness. That blind hate of our humanity is what we mean when we use the word 'haunted'.
- Mr. George Wheaton: [to Sissy] Sweetheart, taking Annie into a genuinely haunted house? I mean that's like using your cigarette lighter to see how full your gas tank is!
- Nick: You'd have thought after all these years, she would've had Rose Red eat at least one half-way decent carpenter.
- Joyce: I've got the makings of a good group. But these people are candles. Annie Wheaton's a searchlight. If anyone can wake up Rose Red, she can.
- Nick: Rose Red won't let you have what you want, Joyce. It won't let anyone have what they want. Ellen Rimbauer designed it to break hearts as hers was broken, to hurt as she was hurt.
- Emery: Where are Nick and Cathy, they should've been back by now. Why'd she have to go off on her own, anyway? That was extremely stupid!
- Emery: Oh, no. I don't think so. No, no, no, you wouldn't wanna hear it from me. Every time I open my mouth something wickedy-wickedy-wicked comes out!
- Emery: [Running out of the house] First thing I want is a morphine milkshake!
- Mrs. Kay Waterman: [Unseen] Emery?
- Emery: Second thing I wanted...
- Mrs. Kay Waterman: [Comes out of a mirror as a ghost now] Come here, Emery! I wanna see if you've been cleaning your nails! I wanna look behind your ears. I wanna look at your teeth. And what about down there? Come to Mommy Emmy! Come to Momma! Have you been doing that nasty thing again? I hear you in your room at night. Mommy hears everything!
- Emery: [to Cathy] Help me, for God's sake! Help me!
- Cathy: Emery, for once in your miserable life fight her!
- Emery: Not there, not there, not there!
- Mrs. Kay Waterman: [pulling him back into the mirror] Come to Momma, Emmy. Emers, no! I'll always be there for you. After all I'm your mother!
- [Disappears into the mirror]
- Emery: Not there!
- [Steve pulls Emery out]
- Nick: What if Rose Red is the equivalent of the Energizer Bunny and keeps growing and growing and growing?
- Joyce: [Joyce cut her finger and smears blood all over Professor Miller's face] Check yourself into hospital in case you need an AIDS test.
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