- Victoria Winters: My name is Victoria Winters. Collinwood, a strange dark mansion, brooding on the crest of a lonely hill. It's my home now, and the outside world seems a million miles away. Yet I know there are homes in warmth in Collinsport. I know there are people with hopes and dreams and unexpressed fears.
- Carolyn Stoddard: Saw the light under the door and thought I might borrow a cup of sugar.
- Victoria Winters: You're Carolyn.
- Carolyn Stoddard: Uh-huh. And you're Victoria. Or is it Vicki?
- Victoria Winters: Either one. Doesn't make any difference. Whichever you like.
- Carolyn Stoddard: Well, Vicki, on behalf of myself and my kooky family, I bid you welcome to the house of Usher.
- Burke Devlin: You're an ambitious kid, Joe. You want to get ahead. Work for yourself. I like that. But you're a dead duck as far as Carolyn Stoddard is concerned. And you know it. As long as she lives in that house on the hill.
- Joe Haskell: She doesn't want to leave her mother alone up there. That makes sense, doesn't it?
- Burke Devlin: Does it? Does that make sense, Joe? A woman stays in that hill for 18 years. She could walk off anytime. But she won't do it. How long you gonna wait? Another 18 years?
- Carolyn Stoddard: Vicky you seem like a nice person. Do yourself a favor, go back home to New York.
- Victoria Winters: You know I've been hearing that every hour on the hour since I got here. Why does everyone want me to go home?
- Carolyn Stoddard: Oh I didn't say I want you to go. Heck no, it'll be a ball having somebody around here to talk to. But you've been in this mausoleum a couple of hours, do you think it will be fun and games?
- Victoria Winters: I'm willing to find out.
- Carolyn Stoddard: Victoria Winters, I think I'm gonna like you.
- Victoria Winters: That door, I'm sure I closed it tightly when we came in here.
- Carolyn Stoddard: Looks like you didn't.
- Victoria Winters: I know I did.
- Carolyn Stoddard: When in doubt... . Look.
- [Carolyn walks to drawing room door and opens both doors wide]
- Carolyn Stoddard: Must of been the wind blew it open.
- Victoria Winters: There's no wind in here.
- Carolyn Stoddard: Vicky, you're going to have to try to get used to doors like that. It isn't easy I know. But you'll have to try.
- Carolyn Stoddard: [Smiling and holding head up high - Carolyn walks back to center of drawing room] Now where were we
- Burke Devlin: Mr. Malloy, when I was a kid, I used to go up to Collinwoood to look for ghosts. We all used to think it was haunted. Well, I didn't find any then, but they're there. You know it and I know it. They creep out of every corner, and hide under every bed. Well, I didn't put them there, Mr. Malloy, but I'm sure gonna do everything I can to dig them out.
- Bill Malloy: What good it'll do ya?
- Burke Devlin: It might give me back a lot of time I've lost.