- Polly Wright: I don't know which frightens me more, that the children are lying or that they are telling the truth.
- Polly Wright: Frances, I've been down the beck a hundred times. Why haven't I ever seen any of them?
- Frances Griffiths: Grownups don't know how to believe.
- Arthur Wright: There are two things that I know: no trickery was used in my dark room, and there are no fairies living at the bottom of my garden.
- Edward Gardner: The girls will be herding the fairies back this way. I'm certain both girls are clairvoyant, and perhaps mediums as well. Together, they create an etheric field which allows the fairies to metabolize subtle amounts of ectoplasm into their bodies. That's how they're able to capture them on film. Do you see? No. Well, uhm... Well I don't expect you to understand.
- Frances Griffiths: I think I know what it means when they say that my Daddy's missing.
- Elsie Wright: It means they don't know where he is.
- Harry Houdini: I've fought against those who seek to make a profit out of the grief, the pain, and the loneliness of their fellow human beings. I stand against fraud. Against the exploitation of suffering mothers whose dead children are puppeteered in front of their grieving eyes. But I don't see any of that here. I see only joy.
- Judith: Is it true all Africans are cannibals?
- Frances Griffiths: I've never met one. Do you have anymore stupid questions?