- Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler: Remember how I told you when I was little, I was afraid of the dark? Well, my mother gave me a candle to light at the bedside before I went to sleep. It was just a tiny little thing, a birthday candle. Somehow it made it all right. I've loved candles ever since.
- Vincent: This is no ordinary candle. This is for Winterfest. It's a special time for us. We have other celebrations, all the holidays and traditions we share with your world, but... Winterfest is our own. It's a time to remember the past. Dream of the future. Each year, we deliver these candles to our helpers in the world above. Without their light, our world would be dark. Our lives would be cold without their warmth. The candles are our way of saying that they are a part of us. Everyone, the entire community is agreed. This year's Winterfest will be incomplete unless you are there.
- Jacob 'Father' Wells: [getting bested in chess by one of the young children] I'm looking forward to Winterfest. There are a few helpers I can still beat.
- Vincent: Don't think of yourself as a bad player, Father. Only a very good teacher.
- Vincent: You're smiling.
- Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler: Our worlds are so different. Every day, I see people who work just for a paycheck, but Pascal and his pipes...
- Vincent: That tapping is the sweetest music in the world for Pascal.
- Jacob 'Father' Wells: Peter, those, uh, journals you gave me are quite fascinating. Some of the results they're getting with laser surgery these days is incredible.
- Dr. Peter Alcott: Makes you wish you had a laser down here, doesn't it?
- Jacob 'Father' Wells: Oh, I'd give anything.
- Mouse: Build you one!
- Jacob 'Father' Wells: Uh... no. No, thank you, Mouse.
- Sebastian: Ah, chess. The game of kings! Not to mention rooks and pawns.
- [he laughs]
- Sebastian: Come on, set them up, set them up. Time for your annual humiliation.
- Jacob 'Father' Wells: Never again. Last year, he took my king.
- Sebastian: Well, isn't that the whole idea?
- Jacob 'Father' Wells: No, the whole idea is that you capture the pieces. You do not make them disappear. Peter, would you care for a game?
- Dr. Peter Alcott: Oh, Jacob, have you ever considered consulting a psychologist about this streak of masochism?