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Robert Mallory: There have been other sightings. The boys believe...
Florence Cathcart: Boys believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. I'm sure some of them even believe in God.
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[first lines]
Vera Flood: [answering the door] Miss Simpson? Are you prepared?
Florence Cathcart: [yes] I brought this.
[shows photograph of a soldier]
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Maud Hill: There's no place on earth people understand loneliness better than here.
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[last lines]
Florence Cathcart: Not seeing them, it's not the same as forgetting. Is it?
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Robert Mallory: [holding newspapers] What about these?
Florence Cathcart: Those are footprint catchers.
Robert Mallory: Ghosts have footprints?
Florence Cathcart: No. People pretending to be ghosts do.
Robert Mallory: They must hate you.
Florence Cathcart: Who? The spiritualists?
Robert Mallory: No. The ghosts.
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Florence Cathcart: Without Science, people don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
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Maud Hill: I never asked anything of the world,but it's a perfect hell on earth to give a woman children to love and to rob her of them.
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Robert Mallory: It's never darker than when we close our eyes, and yet we keep them shut. Why is that?
The Awakening Quotes
Extended Reading
