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C-O-M-promise. Compromise? How ’bout that’s your word for the day, yeah? It’s something that’s kinda in-between, something like… half-way happy.

- Jim Hopper

Make mistakes, learn from them and when life hurts you, because it will, remember the hurt. The hurt is good. It means you’re out of that cave.

- Jim Hopper

After Sara... I saw her too. And I heard her. I didn’t know what was real. And then I figured out that it was in my mind, and I had to pack all that away... otherwise I was gonna fall down a hole, that I couldn’t get out of.

- Jim Hopper

I was wrong this whole time. I wasn't cursed. I am the curse.

- Jim Hopper

If you don’t mind, for the sake of your poor old dad, keep the door open three inches.

- Jim Hopper

Just curious why all of a sudden you look like some MTV punk.

- Jim Hopper

It's always the ones you least suspect, the ones you trust the most, that hurt you. They wait until your guard is down and then wham! In my case, it was tequila.

- Ella Lopez

It's really not a good day for…your…Luciferness.

- Chloe Decker

Feelings. The truth is, for so long, I'd forgotten what those even were. Ive been stuck in that place, in a cave, you might say. A deep, dark cave.

- Jim Hopper

My life imploded because of you. My marriage, my Job, my snacks. I know you ate my pudding. It was labelled!

- Dan Espinoza

But I never told you what I want. I want you. All in. The whole deal. So there.

- Dan Espinoza

I mean, God works in mysterious ways. So you just got to believe that when He crushes your nuts, He does it for a reason.

- Ella Lopez

When you have children, you always have family. They will always be your priority, your responsibility. And a man, a man provides. And he does it even when he's not appreciated or respected or even loved. He simply bears up and he does it. Because he's a man.

- Chloe Decker

Say you fall in love with a woman who has a cat. What are you gonna do? You accept the cat.

- Dan Espinoza

Classic Chloe. Only you would make a point of remembering the exact amount of time you can't remember.

- Dan Espinoza

You know, if you spent as much time appealing to suspects as you do annoying me, things might go a lot faster.

- Chloe Decker

Rule number two: only open the door, if you hear my secret knock.

- Jim Hopper

Why don't you tell me something? How did she end up dying in a hailstorm of bullets and you get away without a scratch? I think that's interesting, don't you?

- Chloe Decker

You know, joining each other at crime scenes, bantering over dead bodies. And where does that leave you, right?

- Ella Lopez

Mornings are for coffee and contemplation.

- Jim Hopper