‘Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short.’
The Ancient One
‘We never lose our demons, Mordo. We only learn to live above them.
The Ancient One
Dr. Stephen Strange: What’s this? My mantra?
Dr. Stephen Strange & Mordo
Mordo: The Wi-Fi password. We’re not savages.
Wong: Mr. Strange.
Dr. Stephen Strange & Wong
Dr. Stephen Strange: Uh, Stephen, please. And you are?
Wong: Wong.
Dr. Stephen Strange: Wong. Just Wong? Like Adele?
[Wong just stares a him]
Dr. Stephen Strange: Or Aristotle. Drake. Bono. Eminem.
Wong: This section is for masters only, but at my discretion, others may use it. You should start with Maxim’s Primer. How’s your Sanskrit?
Wong & Dr. Stephen Strange
Dr. Stephen Strange: I’m fluent in Google Translate.
[after Strange has been caught reading the text Kaecilius stole and learning to bend time with the mystical Eye of Agamotto]
Mordo, Wong & Dr. Stephen Strange
Mordo: Stop! Tampering with continuum probabilities is forbidden.
Dr. Stephen Strange: I was just doing exactly what it said in the book.
Wong: What did the book say about the dangers of performing that ritual?
Dr. Stephen 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 reliving the same moment over and over forever or never having existed at all?
Dr. Stephen Strange: They really should put the warnings before the spell.
Wong: Your curiosity could have gotten you killed. You weren’t manipulating the space-time continuum, you were breaking it. We do not tamper with natural law, we defend it.