- Sarah Hughes: Paul, it's only a game!
- Paul Ashworth: Don't say that! Please! That is the worst, most stupid thing anyone could say! 'Cause it quite clearly isn't "only a game". I mean, if it was do you honestly think I'd care this much?
Ruth Gemmell - Sarah Hughes
Colin Firth - Paul Ashworth

“Maybe there's a big bit of you that's gone missing somewhere, maybe everyone should want something they've always wanted.”

Colin Firth - Paul Ashworth

“- Will Graham: He dreams about being wanted and desired. So he changes people into beings who want and desire him.
- Jack Crawford: Changes?
- Will Graham: It's a word. Killing and arranging the people to imitate it.”

William Petersen - Will Graham
Dennis Farina - Jack Crawford

“If our boy imitates being wanted and desired enough times, he believes he will become one who is wanted and desired and accepted. It'll all come true.”

William Petersen - Will Graham

“We came through a valley and into this great hubbub of noise. And for a minute I saw it all very clearly. The family I was about to join. A country in turmoil. And my own life turned upside down. And then I thought, it's why you came. It's what you wanted. And that's how it all began.”

Polly Walker - Mary Lavelle