“- Ann Carrington: What's that sound?
- Lillian - the Housekeeper: It's the waves. Angry waves. Day after day, night after night, they beat with savage fury against the black rocks below. For twenty years they've been calling... calling to someone who never answers.”
Carole Landis - Ann Carrington
Rafaela Ottiano - Lillian - the Housekeeper

“- Richard Blake: Makes a nice sound, doesn't it, coming across a continent.
- Edward Creighton: It's music.”

Robert Young - Richard Blake
Dean Jagger - Edward Creighton

“Those sounds come from inside, not outside. Then only when you're concentrating, when you believe strongly in something.”

Eric Portman - Thomas Colpeper, JP

“I am thinking of the piano. She does not play the piano like we do, Nessie. She is a strange creature. And her playing is strange, like a mood that passes into you. Your playing is plain and true, and that is what I like. To have a sound creep inside you is not at all pleasant.”

Kerry Walker - Aunt Morag

“I don't know how to pronounce it: Miró. I don't know why, but I just adore it. The feeling it gives. I know that sounds terribly vague.”

Julianne Moore - Cathy Whitaker