Line #5 Quotes/StrangerThings


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3	[[folder:Meta Quotes]]
4	-> ''"Evil never ends, it evolves. And friendship is always stronger than fear"''
5	-->--Promotional tagline from season 2
6
7	-> ''"Our show is an anthem for the marginalized and imperfect, precisely because the Duffer brothers know from experience that character, grit, connection, and soul are bred in the same moments that challenge us most."''
8	-->-- '''Producer Creator/ShawnLevy'''
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10
11	[[folder:Character Quotes]]
12	-> ''"Mornings are for coffee and contemplation."''
13	-->-- '''Jim Hopper''', "The Vanishing of Will Byers"
14
15	-> ''"Science is neat, but I'm afraid it's not very forgiving."''
16	-->-- '''Mr. Clarke''', "The Flea and the Acrobat"
17
18	-> ''"Friends don't lie."''
19	-->-- '''Eleven''', "The Bathtub"
20
21	-> ''"Something is coming. Something hungry for blood."''
22	-->--'''Mike Wheeler''', "The Vanishing of Will Byers"
23
24
25	-> ''"If anyone asks where I am, I've left the country!"''
26	-->--'''Mike Wheeler''', "The Bathtub"
27
28	-> ''"He likes it cold."''
29	-->--'''Will Byers''', "Will the Wise"
30
31	-> ''"I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but I have to go back. My friends... my friends are in danger."''\
32	''"Your mother sent you here for a reason, remember? We belong together. There's nothing for you back there; they cannot save you, Jane."''\
33	''"No. But I can save them."''
34	-->--'''Eleven and Kali''', "The Lost Sister"
35
36	->''[[AC:"He can't hear you. You shouldn't have looked for me. Because now I see you. Now we can all see you. You let us in. And now, you are going to have to let us stay. Don't you see? All this time, we've been building it! We've been building it for you. All that work. All that pain. All of it for you. And now it's time. Time to end it. And we're going to end you. And when you are gone, we are going to end your friends. And then we are going to end... '''everyone.'''"]]''
37	-->--'''The Mind Flayer''' speaking through Billy, "E Pluribus Unum"
38
39	-> ''"Feelings. Jesus. The truth is, for so long, I'd forgotten what those even were. I've been stuck in one place - in a cave, you might say. A deep dark cave. And then, I left some Eggos out in the woods and you came into my life and... for the first time in a long time, I started to feel things again. I started to feel happy. But lately, I guess I've been feeling... distant from you. Like you're pulling away from me or something. I miss playing board games every night, making triple-decker Eggo extravaganzas at sunrise, watching westerns together before we doze off. But I know you're getting older, growing, changing. And I guess... if I'm being really honest, that's what scares me. I don't want things to change. So I think maybe that's why I came here, to try to maybe... stop that change. To turn back the clock. To make things go back to how they were. But I know that's naive. It's just... not how life works. It's moving. Always moving whether you like it or not. And yeah, sometimes it's painful. Sometimes it's sad. And sometimes... it's surprising. Happy. So you know what? Keep on growing up, kid. Don't let me stop you. Make mistakes, learn from 'em, and when life hurts you - because it will - remember the hurt. The hurt is good. It means you're out of that cave. But, please, if you don't mind, for the sake of your poor old dad, keep the door open three inches."''
40	-->-- '''Hopper''''s speech for Eleven regarding her relationship with Mike, [[spoiler: read by her after Hopper seemingly perished in the Russian base]].
41
42	-> ''"I'll tell your the truth, Anthony -- may I call you Anthony? These aren't actually my clothes. I borrowed them because I wanted you to take us seriously, because'' no one ''takes girls seriously in this field, they just'' don't! ''We don't look the part, or whatever, but can I tell you a story? [[ActorAllusion 1978]], [[Film/FearStreet I was at summer camp]], and my counselor, Drew, told me and everyone in Cabin C the true story of the Victor Creel massacre. And little Petey [=McHugh=] -- You know Petey, right, Ruth? [...] Yeah, little Petey [=McHugh=] started sobbing right there on the spot, full on hyperventilating, and all the other campers, they couldn't sleep for weeks! And I couldn't sleep either, but not because I was scared, because I was obsessed with the question, "What would drive a human being to commit such unimaginable acts?" Other kids, they wanted to astronauts, basketball players, rockstars, but I wanted to be'' you! ''I wanted to be you, so forgive me if I'll now try anything in my power, including wearing this ridiculous outfit, if I get the chance to speak to the man that ignited my passion and learn a little bit more about how his twisted but, let's face it, totally fascinating mind works. So, yes, we don't have the "official" paper work. But don't tell me that crybaby Petey [=McHugh=] wouldn't have gotten an audience with Victor in a matter of moments if he'd asked politely, because we both know that he would! So... Ten minutes with Victor. It's all I ask."''
43	-->-- '''Robin''''s speech as she and Nancy attempt to gain access to Victor Creel
44
45	-> '''One''': Why do you cry for them, Eleven? After everything they did to you, hm? You think you need them, but you don't. You don't. Oh, but I know you're just scared. I was scared once, too. I know what it's like to be'' different. ''To be alone, in this world. Like you, I didn't fit in with the other children. Something was wrong with me, all the teachers and the doctors said I was... broken. They said. My parents thought a change of scenery, a fresh start in Hawkins, might just cure me. It was absurd. As if the world would be any different here! But then, to my surprise, our new home provided a discovery. And a newfound sense of purpose. I found a nest of Black Widows living inside a vent. Most people fear spiders... They detest them. And yet, I found them endlessly fascinating. More than that, I found a great comfort in them -- a kinship.\
46	Like me, they are solitary creatures and deeply misunderstood. They are gods of our world. The most important of all predators. They immobilized and feed on the weak, bringing balance and order to an unstable ecosystem. But the human world was disrupting this harmony. You see, humans are a unique type of pest, multiplying and poisoning our world, all while enforcing a structure of their own. A deeply unnatural structure. Where others saw order, I saw a straight jacket. A cruel, oppressive world dictated by made up rules -- seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, each life a faded, lesser copy of the one before! Wake up, eat, work, sleep, reproduce and'' '''''die!''''' ''Everyone is just waiting. Waiting for it all to be over, all while performing in a silly, terrible play, day after day. I could not do that. I could not close off my mind and join in the madness, I could not pretend. Then I realized... I didn't have to.\
47	I could make my own rules. I could restore balance to a broken world -- a predator, but for good. As I practiced, I realized I could do more than I possibly imagined. I could reach into others, into their minds, their memories. I became an explorer. I saw my parents as they truly were. To the world, they presented themselves as good, normal people. But like everything else in this world, it was all a lie. A terrible lie. They had done things, Eleven. Such awful things. I showed them who they really were. I held up a mirror. My naive father believed it was a demon cursing them for their sins. But my mother somehow knew. Knew it was I who was holding up that mirror, and she despised me for it. She called a doctor, an expert. She wanted him to lock me away, to fix me, even though it wasn't I who was broken. It was them. And so she left me with no choice. No choice but to act. To break free. With each life I took, I grew stronger. More powerful. They were becoming a part of me. But I was still a child. And I did not yet know my limits. And it nearly killed me. He was arrested, blamed for the death of my sister and mother, just as I had planned. But I was far from free. I woke up from my coma only to find myself placed in the care of a doctor, the very doctor I had hoped to escape. Dr. Martin Brenner. Papa. But the truth... the truth is he did not just want to study me. He wanted more. He wanted to control. When Papa finally realized he could not control me, he tried to recreate me. He began a program. And soon, others were born. You were born. And I am so glad you were, Eleven. So very glad. They're not gone, Eleven. They're still with me. In here.\
48	'''Eleven''': You tricked me.\
49	'''One''': Tricked you? No, I saved you. You are a prisoner here, just like me. To your papa, you are nothing more than an animal, a monster, a lab rat to be tamed. But the truth, Eleven, the truth is just the opposite. You are better than they are. Superior. That is why you frighten him. If you come with me, for the first time in your life, you will be free. Imagine what we could do together. We could reshape the world, remake it however we see fit. Join me.
50	-->-- '''One, aka [[spoiler: The Orderly / Henry Creel / Vecna]]''' trying to rationalize his crimes, "The Massacre at Hawkins Lab"
51
52	-> ''"These past few months, [Eleven]'s been so lost without you. It's just, she's so different from other people, and... when you're... when you're different, sometimes... you feel like a mistake. [[YouAreNotAlone But you make her feel like she's not a mistake at all.]] [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre Like she's better for being different.]] [[ThePowerOfLove And that gives her the courage to fight on.]] If she was mean to you or she seemed like she was pushing you away, it's because she's scared of losing you, like you're scared of losing her. And if she was going to lose you, I think she'd rather just get it over with quick, like ripping off a Band-Aid. So yeah, El needs you, Mike. And she always will."''
53	-->-- '''Will''''s oblique confession of his feelings for Mike
54
55	-> ''"He showed me things that haven't happened yet. The most awful things. I saw a dark cloud spreading over Hawkins. Downtown on fire. Dead soldiers. And this giant creature with a gaping mouth. And this creature wasn't alone. There were so many monsters. An army. And they were coming into Hawkins. Into our neighborhoods. Our homes. And then... he showed me my mom. And Holly. Mike. And they... they were all... [...] There was something else. He showed me gates. Four gates. Spreading across Hawkins. And these gates, they looked like the one outside of Eddie's trailer, but they didn't stop growing. And this wasn't the Upside Down Hawkins. This was our Hawkins. Our home."''
56	-->-- '''Nancy''''s vision from Vecna
57
58	-> ''"At first, I believed you had sent me to my death, to Purgatory. But I was wrong, I was somewhere new. I became an explorer. An explorer of a realm unspoiled by mankind. I saw so many things. And one day, I found the most extraordinary thing of all. Something that would change everything. I saw a means to realize my potential, to transcend my human form, to become the predator I was always born to be."''
59	-->-- '''Vecna''' to '''Eleven''' revealing what he was upto after [[spoiler:Eleven sent him to the Upside Down and revealing he is behind the Mind Flayer]]
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61
62	[[folder: Songs]]
63	-> ''[[SequelHook Every breath you take]]''
64	-> ''[[{{Determinator}} Every move you make]]''
65	-> ''[[LoveTriangle Every bond you break]]''
66	-> ''[[CharacterDevelopment Every step you take]]''
67	-> ''[[ParanoiaFuel I'll be watching you.]]''
68
69	-> ''[[TimeSkip Every single day]]''
70	-> ''[[PluckyComicRelief Every word you say]]''
71	-> ''[[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Every game you play]]''
72	-> ''[[DarkWorld Every night you stay]]''
73	-> ''[[TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive I'll be watching you.]]''
74
75	-> ''[[TheCorruption Oh can't you see]]''
76	-> ''[[MultiversalConqueror You belong to me?]]''
77	-> ''[[ItsPersonal How my poor heart aches with every step you take.]]''
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79	-> ''[[ImplacableMan Every move you make]]''
80	-> ''[[DemonicPossession Every vow you break]]''
81	-> ''[[CreepyChild Every smile you fake]]''
82	-> ''[[TheChessMaster Every claim you stake]]''
83	-> ''[[SealedEvilInACan I'll be watching you.]]''
84	-->--'''Music/ThePolice''', ''Every Breath You Take'', "The Gate"
85
86	-> ''[[ItsPersonal We'll meet again]]''
87	-> ''[[NothingIsScarier Don't know where, don't know when]]''
88	-> ''[[ThisMeansWar But I know we'll meet again some sunny day]]''
89	-> ''[[StepfordSmiler Keep smiling through]]''
90	-> ''[[RagtagBunchOfMisfits Just like you always do]]''
91	-> ''[[HopeSpot 'Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away]]''
92
93	-> ''[[TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive So will you please say hello]]''
94	-> ''[[AssimilationPlot To the folks that I know]]''
95	-> ''[[TheChessmaster Tell them I won't be long]]''
96	-> ''[[BrainwashedAndCrazy They'll be happy to know]]''
97	-> ''[[RoaringRampageOfRevenge That as you saw me go]]''
98	-> ''[[OmnicidalManiac I was singing this song]]''
99
100	-> ''[[WeWillMeetAgain We'll meet again]]''
101	-> ''[[BestServedCold Don't know where, don't know when]]''
102	-> ''[[{{Determinator}} But I know we'll meet again some sunny day.]]''
103	-->--'''Music/VeraLynn''', ''We'll Meet Again'', "The Sauna Test"
104
105	-> ''[[ThemeMusicPowerUp It doesn't hurt me.]]''
106	-> ''[[HeroicSecondWind Do you want to feel how it feels?]]''
107	-> ''[[ThePowerOfLove Do you want to know that it doesn't hurt me?]]''
108	-> ''Do you want to hear about the deal that I'm making?''
109	-> ''[[TalkToTheFist You, it's you and me.]]''
110
111	-> ''[[KillItWithFire If I only could,]]''
112	-> ''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu I'd make a deal with God,]]''
113	-> ''[[{{Determinator}} And I'd get him to swap our places,]]''
114	-> ''[[ScreamingWarrior Be running up that road,]]''
115	-> ''[[OffWithHisHead Be running up that hill,]]''
116	-> ''[[DestinationDefenestration Be running up that building.]]''
117	-> ''[[PyrrhicVictory If I only could...]]''
118
119	-->--'''Music/KateBush''', ''Running Up That Hill'', "Dear Billy" & "The Piggyback"
120
121	-> ''End of passion play, crumbling away''\
122	''I'm your source of self-destruction''\
123	''Veins that pump with fear''\
124	''Sucking darkest clear''\
125	''Feeding on your death's construction''\
126	\
127	''Taste me and you will see''\
128	''More is all you need''\
129	''Dedicated to''\
130	''How I'm killing you''\
131	\
132	''Come crawling faster''\
133	''Obey your master''\
134	''Your life burns faster''\
135	''Obey your master''\
136	''Master''\
137	\
138	''Master, master''\
139	''Where's the dreams that I've been after?''\
140	''Master, master''\
141	''You promised only lies''\
142	''Laughter, laughter''\
143	''All I hear and see is laughter''\
144	''Laughter, laughter''\
145	''Laughing at my cries''
146	--> --'''Music/{{Metallica}}''', ''Master of Puppets'', "Piggyback"
147
148	->''I'm an angel, I'm a demon, I'm a new born fawn''\
149	''I'm the bobcat on the far side of the breaking dawn''\
150	''I'm the ocean, I'm the black stone you have cast alone''\
151	''I'm the vulture, I'm an eagle, I'm a debutant''\
152	\
153	''Before the devil comes for you''\
154	''Make sure you have paid your dues''\
155	\
156	''I'm the devotion to the preacher, I'm the priest you want''\
157	''I'm on the front side of the fire side in the moonlit dark''\
158	''I'm an angel, I'm the patron of the crash of sword''\
159	''I'm an omen, I'm a showman, I'm the holy lord''\
160	\
161	''Before the devil comes for you''\
162	''Make sure you have paid your dues''\
163	\
164	''I'm a vulture, I'm an eagle, I'm the crow you seek''\
165	''I'm the morning, I'm a groaning underneath your feet''\
166	''I'm for the witches covered in stitches holy matricide''
167	--> --'''Creator/JamieCampbellBower''', ''I Am''
168
169	-> ''Lying in my bed, I hear the clock tick and think of you''[[note]]Mike and Eleven think of each other all the time during their year apart between the first two seasons.[[/note]]\
170	''Caught up in circles''\
171	''Confusion is nothing new''[[note]]El is frequently confused by other people because she never had the chance to learn normal social behavior while being raised as a specimen in the Hawkins National Lab.[[/note]]\
172	''Flashback, warm nights''[[note]]Especially relevant to the month or so El spent sleeping outside before Hopper took her in – she would remember the few nights she spent in the blanket fort Mike made for her in his basement, perhaps the only nights of her life when she could feel not only warm but ''safe.''[[/note]]\
173	''Almost left behind''[[note]]El almost does leave Mike behind when she makes her journey to find her mother and then her "sister" Kali, after seeing him with Max in the gym and misinterpreting their interaction as romantic.[[/note]]\
174	''Suitcase of memories''\
175	''Time after''\
176	\
177	''Sometimes you picture me''\
178	''I'm walking too far ahead''\
179	''You're calling to me, I can't hear''\
180	''What you've said''[[note]]This verse especially could almost have been written about Mike and Eleven, though she is able to hear him calling to her; she just can't answer, since revealing herself would endanger them both.[[/note]]\
181	''Then you say, "go slow"''\
182	''And I fall behind''\
183	''The second hand unwinds''\
184	\
185	''If you're lost you can look and you will find me''[[note]]The chorus, where Cyndi Lauper's soprano line is backed by Rob Hyman's tenor, is a near-perfect expression of what Mike and El mean to each other. They first met by finding each other when she was lost in the woods, and they each feel lost without the other. El, at least, can always find Mike using her clairvoyance.[[/note]]\
186	''Time after time''\
187	''If you fall, I will catch you, I'll be waiting''[[note]]El literally caught Mike with telekinesis when he stepped off the cliff over the quarry pond to protect Dustin, and there's a scene in Season 3 where she collapses into his arms after fighting the Mind Flayer-possessed Billy.[[/note]]\
188	''Time after time''\
189	''If you're lost, you can look and you will find me''\
190	''Time after time''\
191	''If you fall, I will catch you, I will be waiting''\
192	''Time after time''\
193	\
194	''After my picture fades and darkness has''\
195	''Turned to gray''\
196	''Watching through windows''[[note]]Glimpsing her through the window while the agents were interrogating him just after the climax of Season 1 gave Mike hope that El was still alive, even if he couldn't be certain that he'd really seen her.[[/note]]\
197	''You're wondering if I'm okay''[[note]]Mike's overriding concern during those 353 days of separation.[[/note]]\
198	''Secrets stolen from deep inside (deep inside)''[[note]]This line could refer to El's power to view others' memories, or to the memories she herself lost during the events revealed through the Nina project in Season 4.[[/note]]\
199	''And the drum beats out of time''\
200	\
201	''If you're lost you can look and you will find me''\
202	''Time after time''\
203	''If you fall I will catch you, I'll be waiting''\
204	''Time after time''\
205	''If you're lost, you can look and you will find me''\
206	''Time after time''\
207	''If you fall, I will catch you, I will be waiting''\
208	''Time after time''\
209	''Time after time''\
210	\
211	''I've got a suitcase of memories that I almost left behind''\
212	''Time after time''\
213	''Time, time, time''\
214	''But you say to go slow but I fall behind''\
215	''Time after time after time (after time, oh)''\
216
217	-->--'''Music/CyndiLauper,''' ''Time After Time'', "The Gate"
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