Updated: January 1, 2026
Here’s a collection of quotes from the Netflix series, Stranger Things 5 (2025):
Episode 1
“Should I stay or should I go now? If I go, there will be trouble. And if I stay, it will be double.” – Will
“At long last, we can begin.” – Vecna
“You and I, we are going to do such beautiful things together, William. Such beautiful things.” – Vecna
“What is it about your presence that brings out their inner Neanderthal?” – Robin
“We don’t stop looking. Even if it takes 100 more crawls, 1,000. We don’t stop until we’re sure that wrinkled, noseless, rotting bastard is dead and gone and never coming back.” – Mike
“I want to see Vecna’s heart on a platter. Just wish I could do it myself. For Eddie.” – Dustin
“People are dying. Innocent people. I need the girl.” – Dr. Kay
“I’m nuts. But I’m not that nuts.” – Hopper
“I saw it. The Demagorgon. It’s coming. It’s coming for them.” – Will
Episodes 2-3
“Vecna doesn’t leave things unfinished. He doesn’t hold back.” – Lucas
“Only more intense. It’s like I was there. I was right there. It’s like I was the Demagorgon. I was seeing what it was seeing and thinking what it was thinking.” – Will
“I don’t think it was ever truly severed. Ever since he took me, it’s like I was permanently changed.” – Will
“Maybe you’re like a receiver. You know, like a radio receiver, just a magical human version.” – Robin
“We can still catch it. And not emotion. Instinct.” – Eleven
“The final battle. I feel like it started tonight.” – Lucas
“You might call them brave, but there’s a fine line between bravery and stupidity.” – Hopper
“I’ve just been around long enough to know that you can’t count on anything in this life.” – Hopper
“I don’t trust doctors who smoke or call me sweetheart.” – Nancy
“The death of a loved one is the painful but necessary reminder that life is delicate, precious, that one must not take those around us for granted, that one must strengthen bonds.” – Murray
“The military. They have him. They have Vecna.” – Eleven
“Trust is a two-way street.” – Joyce
“Vecna’s seen. He knows where we are.” – Will
Episode 4
“In a memory, which exists inside a world of 1,000 memories. I know it might look nice, but it’s not. This place, this world, it’s a prison. Henry’s prison.” – Max
“This is not training. This is a real-life situation.” – Hopper
“Vecna’s curse. It never goes away. It never leaves you. With each victim that he took, he created a new gate.” – Max
“When you’re a prisoner in a messed up prison world, you really only have a few doors open to you. Door one, you take your own life. Door two, accept your fate. Or door three, you escape. I chose door three.” – Max
“Music has a way of finding you, even in the darkest of places.” – Max
“Hop, thank you. For teaching me and trusting me.” – Eleven
“In real life, you’re more like a sorcerer because your powers don’t come from a book of spells. They’re innate.” – Mike
“This wall is a circle. A circle completely surrounding the Upside Down.” – Dustin
“Because it’s not about the circle. It’s about the center.” – Dustin
“I’ll never forget the look on his face that day. He was scared. More than scared, he was terrified. There’s something about this cave, this memory. He won’t come in. In here, I’m safe. So I turned it into my sanctuary. My home.” – Max
“Dr. Kay. I know who you are. I know who you’ve taken. And I also know that you and your men are going to die.” – Eleven
“It’s best not to struggle. The greater the perceived threat, the more aggressive its response.” – Dr. Kay
“So you’re the reason. The reason she’s been so hard to track. The thorn in my side.” – Dr. Kay
“Why risk her life for the other? What do you know that I don’t?” – Dr. Kay
“That heat you feel, weakens it. But in the cold, it thrives.” – Dr. Kay
“From here on out, I want you to know how proud I am of you. I am so proud of you. I am so proud of what you’ve overcome. I’m proud of who you are. I love you, Jane.” – Hopper
“Can you see them, William? Can you see the children? Do you know why? Why I chose them to reshape the world? It’s because they are weak. Weak in body and mind. Easily broken. Easily reshaped. Controlled. The perfect vessels.” – Vecna
“And you, Will. You were the first. And you broke so easily. You showed me what was possible, what I could achieve. Some minds, it turns out, simply do not belong in this world. They belong in mine.” – Vecna
“I was looking for the answers in somebody else, but I had all the answers. I just needed to stop being so scared. Scared of who I really was. And once I did that, I was so free. It’s like I could fly.” – Robin
Episode 5
“This place, my home, is now your home, too. Your sanctuary. As long as you do not venture into the woods where the monsters live, you will be safe here.” – Vecna / Henry
“An evil darkness is spreading across not just Hawkins, but the whole world, and soon it will be too late to stop it.” – Vecna / Henry
“November 6th. The day all this started is the day it ends.” – Lucas
“You didn’t fail tonight. What you did was extraordinary.” – Joyce
“I’m not Dipshit Derek anymore. I’m Delightful Derek.” – Derek
“We throw two darts and pray for a bullseye.” – Joyce
“I just want you to stop running away from me. Start being honest with me.” – Jonathan
“It was not drugs that gave us our powers, Jane. It was Henry.” – Kali
“There are no happy endings, Jane. Not for us.” – Kali
“At long last, the fox is caught.” – Vecna
Episode 6
“This place, the Upside Down, it isn’t another dimension. It’s not another world. It’s a wormhole. A bridge between two points in time and space, between our world and another.” – Dustin
“But remember, I am the one. The one who invited you in. You were my vessel. My spy. My builder.” – Vecna
“There is so much power within you. But make no mistake, boy. They are my powers and they are stronger than ever before. Much stronger.” – Vecna
“Now, at last, it is time. Time for my vessels to lead us into a new world. A better world.” – Vecna
“There are ways to smoke a fox from its den, William. And you are going to help me. You are going to be my spy one last time.” – Vecna
“You don’t remind me of your brother. You are your brother!” – Max
“Killing Henry won’t end this.” – Kali
“Joyce, one of the joys of being a parent is that you’ll have a constant reminder your whole life that every choice you’ve made has been wrong.” – Hopper
“This isn’t like one of your campaigns. You don’t get to write the ending. Not this time.” – Eleven
“Maybe I don’t. But we do. You, me, Lucas, Will, and Dustin. Because this is our story. And it starts with getting Will back.” – Mike
“If you go on there, you’re gonna die, and I can’t deal with it again. You can’t die ’cause I can’t deal with it again.” – Dustin
“I hate it most of all when you’re high and I’m drunk.” – Nancy
“Steve’s a good guy. He makes me laugh. And, he has better hair than you. Like, way better. But no. No, it was never like that with him. We’re just different people.” – Nancy
“Six kids? That’s like a Happy Meal.” – Jonathan
“But my point is, he knows what he wants, and that’s great. But I don’t.” – Nancy
“One last confession. A big one. I figure that I’ve screwed up enough with you. It’d be nice to get something right for once in the end. Here.” – Jonathan
“Nancy Wheeler. Will you not marry me?” – Jonathan
“I tried to convince myself that this would somehow fix everything. But it was just gonna make things worse. Which is why it has been sitting like a cannonball in my pocket for the last two days.” – Jonathan
“Do you accept my un-proposal?” – Jonathan
“I accept your un-proposal.” – Nancy
“I will find him. I will bring him home.” – Eleven
“Holy the Heroic is not just a toy. She’s you, Holly. She’s you.” – Max
Episode 7
“I saw you waiting for me and playing my song.” – Max
“I was his vessel. A vessel to channel his powers, to spy, and to build.” – Will
“We don’t need a magic bean to climb.” – Steve
“We can end our brother together.” – Kali
“Underneath all those scars, he’s still human. A psychopath with a serious god complex, but human. I guess we’re all scared of something, right?” – Max
“You die, I die.” – Steve
“It’s a cycle. A terrible, vicious cycle. But we can stop it. Tonight.” – Kali
“He sees everything, mom. He sees my thoughts. He sees my memories. And he sees my secrets.” – Will
“But the truth is I am different. I just pretended like I wasn’t because I didn’t want to be. I wanted to be like everyone else. I wanted to be like my friends and I am like you. I’m like you in almost every way. I just.. I don’t like girls.” – Will
“I’m ready to show him I’m not afraid anymore.” – Will
Episode 8
“One last fight, and this whole nightmare, it’ll be over. It’ll finally be over.” – Mike
“This isn’t intro to Science. This situation demands cussing.” – Erica
“If something does go wrong, I need you to promise me you won’t pull me out.” – Eleven
“Let’s end this, kid.” – Hopper
“Does this officially make us space travelers?” – Nancy
“Look, just because I don’t like you, doesn’t mean I want you dead.” – Jonathan
“I am many things, but I am not a liar. I have seen into her mind, and now I have seen into yours. What rage it holds!” – Vecna
“You are as you fear. You are the curse.” – Vecna
“If I’m alive, then so is Henry. I have to end the cycle.” – Eleven
“Life has been so unfair to you, so cruel. But you never let it break you. And I need you to fight, kid. I just need you to fight one last time.” – Hopper
“Fight for the happy days on the other side of this. Fight for a world beyond Hawkins. Fight for that day that you have a kid of your own, and you give her the life that you never had.” – Hopper
“I know you don’t believe you can have any of this. But I promise you we will find a way to make it real. You will find a way to make it real. Because you have to. Because you deserve it.” – Hopper
“When I was a kid, and you found me in the woods, I was scared. Really scared. I didn’t derstand the world. I didn’t understand people. You took me in. Raised me. Protected me. You became my dad. But I’m not a kid anymore. And I’m not Sara. She didn’t have a choice to make. But I do. And I need you to trust me to make the right choice.” – Eleven
“You must resist it. It will consume you. It will consume all.”
“You’re just like me, Henry. A vessel. But you can resist it. Help us fight it. Don’t let it win, Henry, please. Don’t let it win.” – Will
“It showed me the truth. It showed me that this world is broken. That man is broken.” – Henry /Vecna
“It has never controlled me. And I never controlled it.” – Henry /Vecna
“Don’t you see, William? I could have resisted it. But I chose to join it. It needs me. And I need it. We are one.” – Henry /Vecna
“I’m not afraid anymore. We’re not afraid of you.” – Will
“I will always be with you. I love you.” – Eleven
“Goodbye, Mike.” – Eleven
“I think the Hawkins curse has finally lifted. But at the same time, this isn’t even the Hawkins that I remember. It feels so different. But maybe it’s not the town. Maybe it’s me that’s changed. We probably all have.” – Robin
“El made her choice. Now it’s time to make yours.” – Hopper
“When you get to know people who are different from you, you begin to learn more about yourself. You change. You grow. I’m a better person now. I’m a better person because of them, because of my friends.” – Dustin
“To nothing ever keeping us apart.” – Steve
“Joyce Byers, will you spend the rest of your life with a tired, grumpy, stubborn old man who loves you very much?” – Hopper
“My story was always going to end here. But yours doesn’t have to.” – Kali
“The mage you saw die was not real. She was an illusion.” – Mike
Genre: Science fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy
Synopsis: When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one strange little girl.
Created by: The Duffer Brothers
No. of seasons: Season 1 (2016), Season 2 (2017), Season 3 (2019), Season 4 (2022), Season 5 (2025)
No. of episodes: 8 (Season 1), 9 (Season 2), 8 (Season 3), 9 (Season 4), 8 (Season 5)
Cast: Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, Priah Ferguson, Brett Gelman, Cara Buono, Jamie Campbell Bower, Joe Chrest, Amybeth McNulty, Linda Hamilton, Jake Connelly, Nell Fisher
Country of origin: United States
Network: Netflix
Release date: July 15, 2016 (Season 1), October 27, 2017 (Season 2), July 4,, 2019 (Season 3), May 27, 2022 (Season 4), November 26, 2025 (Season 5)
Subtitle / Images: Netflix
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