- Laura Karnstein: We rarely have visitors here. It's like living in a tomb... or somewhere at the very edge of the world.
- Friedrich Klauss: I love these ancient castles... they have such an air of mystery.
- Lyuba: It's so beautiful here. Perhaps nature has purposely set the stage and is waiting for the actors to enter. But who knows if the play is farce ... or tragedy. This is a spot where one could come for pleasure ... or for death.
- Hunchback: In some houses, Death is a tenant. They found a girl last Monday, she was like wax. Preparing her for burial, they couldn't find a drop of blood in her body.
- Hunchback: I've journeyed many long years. I remember well the faces. A hundred years, two hundred, three hundred... what are they? A blink of eternity's eyelid.