Lauren Bacall as Nora Temple

Through the years, we all will be together If the fates allow Hang a shining star upon the highest bough And have yourself a merry little Christmas now...

Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about… they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well, in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!

"You don't know what it means… like I do… to find myself in the… middle of a room… the middle of a busy street… or in some house I'm working in. A thing like that happens, I wonder where I am… what I'm doing. And sometimes I'm… I'm looking down at someone… somebody that's been hurt. And they've been hurt very badly. And I wonder if I've done it, if what I'm looking at is real or, it's only in my mind."

CLASSIC HORROR ANTI-HEROINES & VILLAINESSES

Bette Davis as Jane "Baby Jane" Hudson in WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962) dir. Robert Aldrich

Mists gather here, and sea fog and eerie stories. That's not because there are more ghosts here than in other places, mind you. It's just that people who live hereabouts are strangely aware of them. You see, day and night, year in, year out, they listen to the pound and stir of the waves. There's life and death in that restless sound... and eternity too.

We can't lose each other now. We must be together always, with no secrets, no shadows.

When I came here, my eyes were big blue question marks. Now they're big green dollar marks.