Jonathan quotes from Stranger Things

Jonathan

People don't say what they're really thinking.

Jonathan

Don’t take it so personally, okay? I don’t like most people. He’s in the vast majority.

Sam Owens

"Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind." George Sarton said that. You guys know who George Sarton is? Doesn't really matter. The point is, mistakes have been made, yes.

Nancy

"Mistakes?!"

Sam Owens

Yes.

Nancy

You killed Barbara!

Sam Owens

"Abundant mistakes". But, the men involved in those mistakes, the ones responsible for what happened to your brother and... Ms. Holland's death, they're gone. They're gone, and for better or for worse, I'm the schmuck they brought in to make things better. But I can't make things better without your help.

Nancy

You mean, without us shutting up?

Sam Owens

[To Jonathan, indicating Nancy] She's tough, this one. You guys been together long?

Jonathan

We're not together.

Sam Owens

Wanna see what really killed your friend?

Sam Owens

Teddy, I brought you an audience today. Hope you don't mind.

The more the merrier, sir.

Sam Owens

[Gestures at the tendrils coming out of the portal] I call it, "One Hell of a Mistake." Wouldn't you? See, the thing is, we can't seem to... erase our mistake. But we can stop it from spreading. It's like pulling weeds. But, imagine for a moment, if a foreign state, let's say, the Soviets, if they heard about our mistake. Do you think they would even consider that a mistake? What if they tried to replicate that?

Sam Owens

The more attention we draw to ourselves, the more... the more people like the Hollands know the truth, the more likely that scenario becomes. You see why I have to stop the truth from spreading, too... same as those weeds, there. By whatever means necessary.

Sam Owens

So... we understand each other now. Don't we?

Joyce

[To a possessed Will] Do you know what March 22nd is? It's your birthday. Your birthday. When you turned eight, I gave you that huge box of crayons, do you remember that? It was 120 colors. And all your friends, they got you Star Wars toys, but all you wanted to do was... draw with all your new colors. And you drew this big spaceship, but it wasn't from a movie, it-it was your spaceship. A "rainbow ship" is what you called it. And you, you must have used every color in the box. I... I took that with me to Melvald's, and I put it up, and I told everyone who came in, "My son drew this." And you were so embarrassed. [Chuckles tearfully] But I was so proud. I was so, so proud.

Jonathan

[Going to sit opposite him] Do you remember the day Dad left? We stayed up all night, building Castle Byers, just the way you drew it. And it took so long, because you were so bad at hammering. You'd miss the nail every time. And then it started raining, but we stayed out there anyway. We were both sick for like a week, after that. But we just had to finish it, didn't we? We just had to.

Mike

Do you remember the first day we met? It was... it was the first day of kindergarten. I knew nobody. I had no friends, and...I just felt so alone, and so scared, but... I saw you on the swings, and you were alone, too. You were just swinging by yourself. And I just walked up to you, and...I asked. I asked if you wanted to be my friend. And you said yes. You said yes. It was the best thing I've ever done.

Joyce

Will, baby... if you're in there, just please... please talk to us. Please, honey, please, can you do that for me? Please. I love you so much.

Will

[As the Shadow Monster] Let me go.

Jonathan

Have you forgotten what he showed Nancy? Hawkins on fire. Karen, Holly, everyone -- dead!

Steve

Yeah, man, he also showed Max her brother walking around with a big hole in his chest. That's what he does; he gets in your head and he tries to scare you.

Nancy

Yeah, well he did a good job, because I am scared! And you should be scared too, because if he's still out there, he's planning to end our world, so...

Mike

...we don't stop looking, even if it takes a hundred more crawls -- a thousand! We don't stop until we're goddamn sure that wrinkled, rotting, noseless bastard is dead and gone and never coming back. [He holds out his hand.] Everyone in?

Dustin

I wanna see Vecna's heart on a platter. Just wish I could do it myself. For Eddie.

For Eddie!

Lucas

On three, "Kill Vecna". One, two, three...

Kill Vecna!

Jonathan

I just thought that, tonight of all nights, you would give it a rest.

Steve

Give what a rest?

Jonathan

This bullshit macho competition for Nancy's affection.

Steve

What are you talking about?

Jonathan

What am I talking about?

Steve

Yeah.

Jonathan

Really? Dude, ever since I got back from Lenora, you are constantly showing off for her. How you’re better than me. Which is shitty enough on a normal day, but now her parents are fighting for their lives, her sister is missing, and all you can think about is giving her flowers. You selfish, chauvinistic meathead!

Steve

You know what, Byers? You're totally right. Me worrying about my good friend, my friend, that makes me the selfish one here. Or maybe, just maybe, you're the problem, dude. Ever since you got back, you've been acting like a paranoid pothead weirdo. And maybe if you stopped focusing on me and started focusing on her, maybe then the two of you would finally be happy. Because right now, the only one who's more miserable in that relationship than you... is Nance!

Will

I… I… I haven’t told any of you this because… Because I… I don’t… I don’t want you to see me differently. But the truth is… The… The truth is I am. I am different. I just… I just pretended like I wasn’t because… because I didn’t want to be. I wanted to be like everyone else. I wanted to be like my friends and… And I am like you. I’m like you in… in almost every way. We… We like playing D&D late into the night. And we like that old-person smell in Mike’s basement. And we… we like biking to Melvald’s for malted milkshakes. And we like getting lost in the woods, and getting lost in Family Video and arguing about what to rent and settling on Holy Grail for the millionth time. And… And we like Milk Duds in our popcorn with extra butter. And we like drinking Coke with Pop Rocks. And we like bike races and trading comics and NASA and Steve Martin and Lucky Charms and… Literally all the same things. I just… I just… I… I just… I… I… I… I don’t like girls. I mean… I mean I do. Just… Just not like you guys do. And I, uh, I had this… this crush on someone, even though I know… I know they’re not like me. But… But then I realized he’s just my Tammy. And by Tammy, I mean it was never about him. It was… It was about me. And I thought I was finally okay with myself, but… but then today… Today Vecna showed me what would happen if I did this, if I told you guys the truth. He showed me a future, and in this future, some of you are just… are just worried for me. Worried that things will be harder for me. And it just makes me feel like something’s wrong with me. So I… So I push you away. And for the rest of us, we just drift apart more and more and more and more and more until I’m alone. And I know none of that has happened, and Vecna can’t see into the future. But he can see into our minds, and he knows things. And it just felt so real. It felt so real.

Joyce

Will. You gotta listen to me. That will never ever happen. You’ll never lose me. Ever.

Will

Okay. Okay.

Jonathan

And you’ll never lose me. [goes to hug him]

Lucas

Or me. [goes to hug him]

Dustin

Or me. [goes to hug him]

Mike

Or me. [goes to hug him]

Eleven

Or me. [goes to hug him]

Robin

Or me.

Robin

Guess you didn’t need truth serum, huh?

Max

Sorry. This sucks, but you’re gonna have to hug me.

Will

Oh, Max. [goes to hug her]

Max

Just imagine I’m hugging you really tight, okay?

Will

Okay. [lets go of hug] El. I know you’re strong enough to defeat Vecna. But he can retreat to the physical world, and we need to be ready to fight him there too. We have bullets and fire, but none of that helped those soldiers. I need to be there. And I’m ready. I’m ready to show him I’m not afraid anymore.