Christine Palmer Quotes in Doctor Strange (2016)

Christine Palmer: Where have you been?

Dr. Stephen Strange: Well, after Western medicine failed me, I headed east, and I ended up in Kathmandu.

Christine Palmer: Kathmandu?

Dr. Stephen Strange: Yeah.

Christine Palmer: What? Like the Bob Seger Song?

Dr. Stephen Strange: 1975, Beautiful Loser, side A. Yeah. And I went to a place called Kamar-Taj and I... talked to someone called "The Ancient One." And I...

Christine Palmer: Oh. So you joined a cult.

Dr. Stephen Strange: No, I didn't. No, not exactly. No. I mean... They did teach me to tap into powers that I never even knew existed.

Christine Palmer: Yeah. That sounds like a cult.

Dr. Stephen Strange: It's not a cult.

Christine Palmer: Well, that's what a cultist would say.

Christine Palmer: [inscription on Strange's watch] Time will tell how much I love you.

Dr. Stephen Strange: I'm talking tonight at a Neurological Society dinner. Come with me.

Christine Palmer: Another speaking engagement? So romantic.

Dr. Stephen Strange: You used to love coming to those things with me. We had fun together.

Christine Palmer: No, you had fun. They weren't about us, they were about you.

Dr. Stephen Strange: Not only about me.

Christine Palmer: Stephen. Everything is about you.

Christine Palmer: Hey. It's OK. It's gonna be OK.

Dr. Stephen Strange: [looking at his injured hands] Wha... What did they do?

Christine Palmer: They... rushed you in a chopper. But it took a little while to find you. The golden hours for nerve damage went by while you were in the car.

Dr. Stephen Strange: What... did they do?

Christine Palmer: Eleven stainless steel pins in the bones. Multiple torn ligaments... severe nerve damage in both hands. You were on the table for eleven hours.

Dr. Stephen Strange: [sobs] Look at these fixators.

Christine Palmer: No one could have done better.

Dr. Stephen Strange: I could have done better.

[Lucian's astral form approaches while Christine operates on Doctor Strange]

Dr. Stephen Strange: I'm gonna have to vanish now.

Christine Palmer: What?

Dr. Stephen Strange: Keep me alive, will you?

Christine Palmer: Stephen, you always spent money as fast as you can make it, but now you're spending money you don't even have. Maybe it's time to consider stopping.

Dr. Stephen Strange: No, now is exactly not the time to stop, because, you see, I'M NOT GETTING ANY BETTER!

Christine Palmer: But this isn't medicine anymore, this is mania. Somethings just can't be fixed.

Dr. Stephen Strange: A life without my work...

Christine Palmer: Is still a life. This isn't the end, there are other things that can give your life meaning.

Dr. Stephen Strange: [bitter] Like what? Like you?

Christine Palmer: ...and this is the part where you apologise.

Dr. Stephen Strange: This is the part where you leave.