Gena Rowlands credited as playing...
Violet Devereaux
- Violet Devereaux: I bet they don't have gardens like this is New Jersey.
- Caroline Ellis: Actually, it's "The Garden State".
- Violet Devereaux: I very much doubt that!
- Violet Devereaux: [to Caroline Ellis] You think too much about the time you have left. You don't spend it living.
- Violet Devereaux: We've been waiting for you, Caroline. Waiting for you to believe. It doesn't work if you don't believe.
- Caroline Ellis: I don't... I don't... I don't believe. I don't...
- Violet Devereaux: Oh, I think you do.
- Violet Devereaux: You think I'm senile, don't you?
- Caroline Ellis: I just don't understand. Why would the ghosts put a spell on Ben and not me? I've been in that room too.
- Violet Devereaux: Maybe because you don't believe them.
- Caroline Ellis: I'm going into town for a while. Shopping.
- Violet Devereaux: For what, Caroline? Caroline! For what?
- Caroline Ellis: ...you'll just have to see.
- Caroline Ellis: So was that the storm or the ghosts?
- Violet Devereaux: Well, say what you will about spirits, I always thought you could learn something from them.
- Caroline Ellis: Like a spell? I have great respect for your husband. And whatever he thinks happened to him he's fighting it. What have you done?
- Violet Devereaux: You haven't touched your gumbo.
- Caroline Ellis: What have you done to him?
- Violet Devereaux: I've made that special for you and you haven't even touched it.
- Caroline Ellis: What have you done?
- Violet Devereaux: He is my husband and I am his wife I will do whatever I want to him.
- Caroline Ellis: What have you done to him?
- Violet Devereaux: Oh, you've done something.
- Caroline Ellis: He's not safe in this house; not with you.
- Violet Devereaux: This is my house.
- Caroline Ellis: I'm taking him, Violet.
- Violet Devereaux: NO!
- [after extracting Luke's whereabouts from a terrified Caroline]
- Violet Devereaux: [to Luke] Don't scratch her up any more than she already is.
- Violet Devereaux: You're not from the south. You wouldn't understand. That room up there?
- [points]
- Violet Devereaux: You don't just go in there and throw things out of a room like that. You leave them just where you found them. The house is theirs just as much as ours.
- Caroline Ellis: The house is whose? Whose things are in that room?
- Caroline Ellis: I thought the key opens everything.
- Violet Devereaux: The key? What key?
- Caroline Ellis: The key you gave me for the house. There is a door in the attic it doesn't work for.
- Violet Devereaux: Oh, the attic, it's never opened that.
- Caroline Ellis: I saw the room.
- Violet Devereaux: What room?
- Caroline Ellis: The room you said you've never seen
- Violet Devereaux: Well, I see the children are getting acquainted.
- Luke: Oh, Violet. You know you're the only woman in my life.
- Violet Devereaux: I know no such thing, and remove your perspirations.