“Something Wicked This Way Comes” quotes

“- Mr. Dark: It's a thousand years to Christmas, Mr. Holloway.
- Charles Halloway: You're wrong. It's here, in this library tonight, and can't be spoiled.
- Mr. Dark: Did Will and Jim bring it with them on the soles of their shoes? Then, we shall have to scrape them.”

Jonathan Pryce - Mr. Dark
Jason Robards - Charles Halloway

“- Charles Halloway: I know who you are. You are the autumn people. Where do you come from? The dust. Where do you go to? The grave.
- Mr. Dark: Yes. We are the hungry ones. Your torments call us like dogs in the night. And we do feed, and feed well.
- Charles Halloway: To stuff yourselves on other people's nightmares.”
Jason Robards - Charles Halloway
Jonathan Pryce - Mr. Dark

“- Mr. Dark: All that time spent living only through other men's lives. Dreaming only other men's dreams. What a waste.
- Charles Halloway: Sometimes a man can learn more from other men's dreams than he can from his own.”
Jonathan Pryce - Mr. Dark
Jason Robards - Charles Halloway

“- Charles Halloway: A father should be able to play baseball with his son.
- Mrs. Halloway: Baseball's not necessary, not with a heart like yours, he'll forgive you that.”

Jason Robards - Charles Halloway
Ellen Geer - Mrs. Halloway

“- Charles Halloway: You are known in this town. My father knew you.
- Mr. Dark: Your father? The preacher? That half-man?
- Charles Halloway: He lived on goodness.”
Jason Robards - Charles Halloway
Jonathan Pryce - Mr. Dark

“Three o'clock. They call it the soul's midnight.”
Jason Robards - Charles Halloway

“Funerals, bad marriages, lost loves, lonely beds. That is our diet. We suck that misery and find it sweet. We search for more always. We can smell young boys ulcerating to be men a thousand miles off. And hear a middle-aged fool like yourself groaning with midnight despairs from halfway around the world.”

Jonathan Pryce - Mr. Dark

“- Will Halloway: If you're a good person, then demons can't harm you, can they? Am I? Am I a good person?
- Charles Halloway: Well, I wouldn't count on your mother's answer right now, but I think you are.”
Vidal Peterson - Will Halloway
Jason Robards - Charles Halloway