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Clark: I found something..

Mary: What'd you find?

Clark: I found a place...I found a place.

Clark: All these places and buildings, rooms, misremembering themselves. It's a real mess, but also beautiful in a way, no?

Clark: For starters, they can't feel anything. Can you imagine how good that must feel? I mean, there's no thoughts, no pain, no ego. No fear. They simply... exist. Like furniture.

Clark: Sometimes I'm scared I'll get lost.

Clark: I've been here every night since I found the place and I still barely scratched the surface.

Clark: All these rooms, this place builds them.

Clark: It's like a maze, it just goes on and on.

Clark: Keep up. It only gets better.

Clark: It's beautiful. Am I right?

Clark: Okay, I'm gonna come back here with proof.

Clark: Look, I know how this sounds but you gotta understand, it's massive in there.

Trywell Kamkwamba: The government doesn't want us to make noise. The opposition people need our support.

Trywell Kamkwamba: Democracy. Democracy is just like imported cassava. It rots quickly.

Luke: [his final words after being told the baby is a girl] A girl? I had a sister.

Luke: I was carrying the baby up the stairs. I started crying. I'd forgotten what they looked like. They're so beautiful. They're so tiny. Julian was wrong! She thought it could be peaceful! But how can it be peaceful when they try to take away your dignity?

Solomon Northup: [Epps has just whipped Patsey within an inch of her life] Thou devil! Sooner or later, somewhere in the course of eternal justice thou shalt answer for this sin!

Edwin Epps: No sin! There is no sin! A man does how he pleases with his property. At the moment, Platt, I am of great pleasure. You be goddamn careful I don't come to wantin to lightenin my mood no further.

Edwin Epps: [Having awakened Solomon in the middle of the night, Epps coaxes him outside, puts his arm around him as if consoling a friend, and guides him into the woods] Well, boy. I understand I've got a larned nigger that writes letters and tries to get white fellows to mail em. Well, Armsby tol me today the devil was among my niggers. That I had one that needed close watchin or he would run away. When I axed him why, he said you come over to him and waked him up in the middle of the night and wanted him to carry a letter to Marksville. What have yah got to say to that?

Solomon Northup: There is no truth in it.

Edwin Epps: You say.

Solomon Northup: How could I write a letter without ink or paper? There is nobody I want to write to cause I hain't got no friends living as I know of. That Armsby is a lying drunken fellow. You know this, just as you know that I am constant in truth. Now, master, I can see what that Armsby is after, plain enough. Didn't he want you to hire him for an overseer? That's it. He wants to make you believe we're all going to run away and then he thinks you'll hire an overseer to watch us. He believes you are soft soap. He's given to such talk. I believe he's just made this story out of whole cloth, cause he wants to get a situation. It's all a lie, master, you may depend on't. It's all a lie.

Edwin Epps: [reveals a pocket knife he'd had pressed against Solomon's gut the entire time] Well I'll be damned... Were he not free and white, Platt. Were he not free and white.

Solomon Northup: [Solomon awakens Armsby in the middle of the night. He offers him a handful of coins] The proceeds of my fiddling performances. A few picayunes, but all I have in the world. I promise them to you if you will do me the favor I require. But I beg you not to expose me if you cannot grant the request.

Armsby: What do you ask?

Solomon Northup: First, your word, sir.

Armsby: On my honor.

Solomon Northup: It is a simple enough request. I ask only that you deposit a letter in the Marksville post office. And that you keep the action an inviolable secret forever. The details of the letter are of no consequence. Even at that, there would be an imposition of much pain and suffering were it known I was the author. A patron is what I require, sir.

Armsby: Where is the letter now?

Solomon Northup: It is not yet written. I will have it in a day. Two at most, my skill with composition as poor as it is.

Armsby: I will do it. And will accept whatever payment is offered.

Mary Epps: Where you from, Platt?

Solomon Northup: I have told you.

Mary Epps: Tell me again.

Solomon Northup: Washington.

Mary Epps: Who were your Master?

Solomon Northup: Master name of Freeman.

Mary Epps: Was he a learned man?

Solomon Northup: I suppose so.

Mary Epps: He learn you to read?

Solomon Northup: A word here or there, but I have no understanding of the written text.

Mary Epps: Don't trouble yourself with it. Same as the rest, Master bought you to work, that's all. Any more'll earn you a hundred lashes.

Ford: I believe Tibeats is skulkin about the premises somewhere. He wants you dead, and he will attempt to have you so. It's no longer safe for you here. And I don't believe you will remain passive if Tibeats attacks. I have transferred my debt to Edwin Epps. He will take charge of you.

Solomon Northup: Master Ford, you must know; I am not a slave.

Ford: I cannot hear that.

Solomon Northup: Before I came to you I was a free man.

Ford: I am trying to save your life! And... I have a debt to be mindful of. That, now, is to Edwin Epps. He is a hard man. Prides himself on being a "nigger breaker." But truthfully I could find no others who would have you. You've made a reputation of yourself. Whatever your circumstances, you are an exceptional nigger, Platt. I fear no good will come of it.

Robert: I say we fight.

Solomon Northup: The crew is fairly small. If it were well planned, I believe they could be strong armed.

Clemens: Three can't stand against a whole crew. The rest here are niggers, born and bred slaves. Niggers ain't got the stomach for a fight, not a damn one.

Robert: All I know, we get where we traveling we'll wish we'd died trying.

Clemens: Survival is not about certain death, it is about keeping your head down.

Solomon Northup: Days ago I was with my family, in my home. Now you tell me all is lost. "Tell no one who I really am" if I want to survive. I don't want to survive, I want to live.

Solomon Northup: We need a sympathetic ear. If we have an opportunity to explain our situation...

Clemens: Who in your estimation is that sympathetic ear?

Solomon Northup: The two men I journeyed with. I'm certain they're making inquires at this very moment.

Clemens: I would be just as certain they are counting the money paid for delivering you to this place.

Solomon Northup: They were not kidnappers. They were artists. Fellow performers.

Clemens: You know that? You know for certain who they were?

Clemens: How I reckon the situation: whatever past we had... well, that's done now. The reality to come is us being transported southward. New Orleans if I were to venture. After we arrive, we'll be put to market. Beyond that... Well, once in a slave state I suppose there's only one outcome.

Birch: Well well well, my boy, how yah feel now?

Solomon Northup: [[w:Solomon Northup|Solomon Northup; [w:Free Negro|a free man; https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/joseph-trammells-freedom-papers papers.] I am ]. I am ]; a resident of Saratoga, New York. The residence also of my wife and children who are equally free. I have You have no right whatsoever to detain me...

Birch: Yah not any...

Solomon Northup: [[w:Kidnapping_into_slavery_in_the_United_States#Prevention_and_rescue|my liberation] And I promise you - I promise - upon ] I will have satisfaction for this wrong.

Birch: Resolve this. Produce your papers.

Birch: [[w:Fugitive slaves in the United States|runaway] Yah no free man. And yah ain't from Saratoga. Yah from Georgia. Yah ain't a free man. Yah nuthin but a Georgia ]. Yah a runaway nigger from Georgia.

Solomon Northup: [Upon meeting his family again after 12 years; [w:Treatment of slaves in the United States#Living conditions|I have had a difficult time] I apologize for my appearance. But ] these past several years.

Solomon Northup: [[despair; [freedom] I will not fall into ]. I will keep myself hardy, till ] is opportune!

Vincent Kapoor: How's he doing?

Mindy Park: Uh... He asked us to call him Captain Blondebeard.

Vincent Kapoor: Well technically Mars is international waters..

Mindy Park: Yeah, I know. He explained it to us.

Annie Montrose: But if something goes wrong?

Vincent Kapoor: Then we lose the crew.

Bruce Ng: So what, we either have a high chance of killing one person, or a low chance of killing six people. How do we make that decision?

Vincent Kapoor: [pointing to Teddy] We don't. He does.

Mitch Henderson: Yeah, bullshit. It should be Commander Lewis call.

Teddy Sanders: We still have a chance to bring five astronauts home safe and sound. I'm not risking their lives.

Mitch Henderson: Let them make that decision.

Teddy Sanders: Mitch, we are going with option one.

Mitch Henderson: You goddamn coward.

Mitch Henderson: He's not even got to the bad parts yet.

Vincent Kapoor: Well, let's get to the bad parts.

Bruce Ng: We need to remove the nose LR, the windows, and the whole of panel 19.

Vincent Kapoor: You want to take the front of the ship off?

Bruce Ng: Sure. The nose alone is 400 kilograms.

Vincent Kapoor: You want to send a man into space without the front of his ship?

Bruce Ng: Well, no. We are going to have him cover it with HAB canvas. The hull is mostly there to keep air in. Mars atmosphere is so thin, you do not need a lot of streamlining. By the time the ship is going fast enough for air resistance to matter, it'll be high enough that there will be practically no air.

Vincent Kapoor: You want to send him into space under a tarp?

Bruce Ng: Yes. Can I go on?

Vincent Kapoor: NO!

Annie Montrose: What the hell is "Project Elrond?

Vincent Kapoor: I had to make something up.

Annie Montrose: But "Elrond?

Mitch Henderson: Because it's a secret meeting.

Annie Montrose: How do you know that; why does Elrond mean secret meeting?

Bruce Ng: [[The Lord of the Rings] The Council of Elrond. It's the... it's... it's... from ]. It's the meeting where they decide to destroy the One Ring.

Teddy Sanders: If we are going to call something Project Elrond, I would like my code name to be Glorfindel.

Annie Montrose: Okay, I hate every one of you.

Pangborn: Can I help you?

Mordo: They carried you into Kamar-Taj on a stretcher. Look at you now, Pangborn.

Pangborn: Mordo. So what can I do for you, man?

Mordo: I've been away for many months now, and I've had a revelation. The true purpose of a sorcerer is to twist things out of their proper shape. Stealing power. Perverting nature. Like you.

Pangborn: I've stolen nothing. This is my power. Mine.

Mordo: Power has a purpose.

Pangborn: Why are you doing this?

Mordo: Because I see, at long last, what's wrong with the world. Too many sorcerers.

Strange: She's dead.

Mordo: You were right. She wasn't who I thought she was.

Strange: She was complicated.

Mordo: Complicated. The Dark Dimension is volatile, dangerous. What if it overtook her? She taught us it was forbidden while she drew on its power to steal centuries of life.

Strange: She did what she thought was right.

Mordo: The bill comes due. Don't you see? Her transgressions led the Zealots to Dormammu. Kaecilius was her fault, and here we are in the consequence of her deception. A world on fire.

Mordo: [Bursting in] STOP! Tampering with continuum probability is forbidden!

Strange: I was just doing exactly what it said in the book!

Wong: And what did the book say, about the dangers of performing that ritual?

Strange: I don't know, I hadn't gotten to that part yet.

Mordo: Temporal manipulations can create branches in time. Unstable dimensional openings! Spatial paradoxes, time loops! You want to get stuck experiencing the same moment over and over again forever, or never having existed at all?!

Strange: They really should put the warnings before this stuff.

Strange: [After Mordo hands him a card that reads "Shamballa"] What is this? My mantra?

Mordo: It's the Wi-Fi password. We're not savages.

Adrian Helmsley: Mr. Curtis, this is Dr. Adrian Helmsley. We met at Yellowstone.

Jackson Curtis: [in a slowly flooding chamber] That's great! Open the goddamned door!

Adrian Helmsley: Ladies and gentlemen, this is Dr. Adrian Helmsley, chief science adviser to the late President Wilson.

German Chancellor: Could you please turn up the volume, Mr. Hoffmann?

Helmsley: I know we've all been forced to make difficult decisions to save our human civilization, but to be human means to care for each other and civilization means to work together to create a better life. If that's true, then there's nothing human and nothing civilized about what we're doing here.

Carl Anheuser: Dr. Helmsley's passion is admirable, but I will remind you that we have very limited resources and extremely limited time.

Helmsley: [glares at Anheuser] Ask yourselves, can we really stand by and watch these people die? I read a quote two days ago. The author is probably dead by now, but he said: "The moment we stop fighting for each other, that's the moment that we lose our humanity.

Anheuser: And in order to save the human race, we have an obligation to stick to this plan, which every nation on this flotilla has signed up for.

Helmsley: We have to let these people in-

Anheuser: [to comms officer] They're in God's hands now! Officer, you turn that off. That is an order, sailor! TURN IT OFF!

Professor West: [aims cane] Don't you dare touch that button, young man!

Anheuser: [points to countdown] Have you completely lost your mind?! LOOK AT THE CLOCK! WE HAVE BARELY 15 MINUTES LEFT! Do you wanna be responsible for the extinction of the human race? Can you handle that, Adrian?

Helmsley: There's a young astrophysicist from India who's the reason we're all here.

Anheuser: Oh, for God's sake.

Helmsley: [gets more emotional] He's the one who discovered it all. He connected all the dots. We all owe him our lives. I just learned that he was killed with his family in a tsunami in eastern India. He was my friend, and he died in vain. Everybody out there has died in vain if we start our future with an act of cruelty. What would you tell your children? What will they tell theirs?

Laura Wilson: If my father were here, he would open the gates.

Russian President: [looks to fellow heads of state] The people of Russia along with China and Japan, agree... to open the gates.

German Chancellor: The United Kingdom, Spain, France, Canada, Germany and I believe I may also speak for the Italian prime minister, we vote to let these people come in.

Helmsley: Captain Michaels. Please.

Capt. Michaels: [contemplates, then reaches for radio mike; crowd cheers] This is the captain. In a few moments, we will open the gates and get you people in. Please step back and clear the platform.

Scotty: It's been upgraded to a 10.9 by the guys at Harvard.

Adrian Helmsley: What does Caltech have to say?

Professor West: [turns on map; [w:Joshua Tree National Park|Joshua Tree; map then zooms to part of the San Andreas Fault; [w:Point Reyes|Point Reyes] The entire city of Pasadena was wiped out, just a few minutes ago. This is coming in live from Coachella Valley, near ]. That huge canyon, wasn't there this morning. And four hundred miles north, at ]. Same thing.

Helmsley: The San Andreas Fault is shifting.

West: [[w:Pacific Plate|Pacific Plate] Yes. And all sister faults in the Bay Area as well. The whole ] is destabilizing.

Carl Anheuser: [about Laura Wilson] She's a smart girl, she'll understand.

Adrian Helmsley: That thing in Paris, we're not involved in any of that, are we?

Anheuser: We"? Who's "we", what are you talking about? What we need to do is focus on the timeline.

Helmsley: So when do we let the country know?

Anheuser: What?

Helmsley: The people, sir. They need to know.

Anheuser: Well, of course they do. Listen, your job is to figure out when this is all gonna fall apart, my mission is to figure out how to retain some semblance of government after it falls apart, and until then, we don't have time for anything except for doing those jobs, okay? Now, you call me the moment you get any news from Yellowstone.

Helmsley: [turns to go] Yes, sir.

Anheuser: Cute girl, eh?

Helmsley: Sir?

Anheuser: The First Daughter. I saw you looking at her.

Helmsley: I wasn't looking at her.

Anheuser: Better move fast, kid. The end is near.

General Strickland: There's something else out here!

Dr. Payne: Something else?

Strickland: He said this would happen! I just lost three people!

Dr. Payne: Can you collect any samples?

Strickland: Samples...