• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
MovieQuotesandMore

MovieQuotesandMore

  • Home
  • A-Z Manual
  • Movies
  • Television
  • Lists
  • Reviews
  • Trailers
  • Contact
Home / Best Quotes / Needle in a Timestack (2021) Best Movie Quotes

Needle in a Timestack (2021) Best Movie Quotes

by MovieQuotesandMore.com

FacebookTweetPinLinkedIn

Copyright Notice: It’s easy to see when our selected quotes have been copied and pasted, as you’re also copying our format, mistakes, and movie scene descriptions. If you decide to copy from us please be kind and either link back, or refer back to our site. Please check out our copyright policies here. Thanks!

Starring: Leslie Odom Jr., Cynthia Erivo, Orlando Bloom, Freida Pinto, Jadyn Wong

OUR RATING: ★★½

Story:

Sci-fi romance written and directed by John Ridley. Set in the near future, Needle in a Timestack (2021) follows Nick and Janine (Leslie Odom, Jr. and Cynthia Erivo), who live in marital bliss, until Janine’s ex-husband, Tommy Hambleton (Orlando Bloom), warps time to try to tear them apart using Nick’s college girlfriend, Alex Leslie (Frieda Pinto). As Nick’s memories and reality disappear, he must decide what he’s willing to sacrifice in order to hold onto, or let go of everything he loves.

 

Our Favorite Quotes:

'Happiness is the only thing more fleeting than time.' - Tommy Hambleton (Needle in a Timestack) Click To Tweet

 

Best Quotes


 

Janine Mikkelsen: Love is drawn in the form of a circle. No one knows where it begins. And it never really ends. You and I, we are just forever. Always, and all ways.


 

Nick Mikkelsen: Sometimes when you’re not looking, I watch you from across the room. And I ask myself, if I didn’t know you, would I still fall in love with you?
Janine Mikkelsen: And what’s the answer?


 

Zoe Mikkelsen: You and Janine should come rock climbing with us.
Nick Mikkelsen: No. No. I don’t like doing things where I could potentially…
Zoe Mikkelsen: Have fun?
Nick Mikkelsen: Get killed.


 

Nick Mikkelsen: Who are you married to?
Janine Mikkelsen: I’m married to you, Nicholas Perry Mikkelsen. See? Nothing’s changed. We’re okay. We’re fine, we’re still together. You can’t panic over every little time shift, okay?


 

Nick Mikkelsen: That’s weird, don’t you think?
Janine Mikkelsen: What?
Nick Mikkelsen: Sibila and Zoe. Having a best friend who doesn’t speak English.
Janine Mikkelsen: That’s not weird. It’s different. Different doesn’t make it weird.


 

Janine Mikkelsen: Tommy used to be your friend.
Nick Mikkelsen: That was before. That was way before. He wants you back, Janine. He wants you back! And now he’s going jaunting through time, to make us never happen!


 

Janine Mikkelsen: [to Nick] The only reason we’re together is because of Tommy. I never marry Tommy, I never meet you. Never.


 

Nick Mikkelsen: Something’s not right.
Janine Mikkelsen: Will you stop it? Please. We’ve been married for five years. We have a cat, Charlie, who we adore. We have each other. You always say to me that even if you didn’t know me, you would still love me. No one can make us not happen. No one.


 

Zoe Mikkelsen: Honestly, to me the part that’s a little pathetic is you and him fighting over Janine. You’re like cavemen.
Nick Mikkelsen: Yeah, well, she’s my wife.
Zoe Mikkelsen: She was Tommy’s wife first.
Nick Mikkelsen: They got a divorce!


 

Zoe Mikkelsen: [to Nick, referring to Tommy and Janine] Maybe you changed their lives a little. I’m not saying on purpose, but maybe there’s something that you did that changed them just enough for them to not be a couple anymore.


 

Zoe Mikkelsen: Sometimes change isn’t a bad thing. Remember Alex? You used to be so sure that you were going to marry her.
Nick Mikkelsen: Alex was long before I met Janine. I’m not losing my wife to her ex-husband.


 

Zoe Mikkelsen: You talk about Tommy being obsessed. You are so worried about life not changing, you are going to end up losing what you have.
Nick Mikkelsen: You’ve got a lot of advice for somebody who’s never actually been in a relationship.


 

Tommy Hambleton: You never been jaunting? It’s amazing. Time traveling. The past doesn’t just belong to old photos and history books anymore. Now, we can live it. Touch it. Be part of it.
Nick Mikkelsen: Change it.
Tommy Hambleton: Nobody can really change the past. Just clean up the present a little.


 

Nick Mikkelsen: I’m afraid that one day I’ll wake up and Janine won’t be there, I won’t remember her, or being married to her. I’m worried somebody’s trying to break me and Janine up.
Tommy Hambleton: Why would that surprise you? Janine’s an amazing person. As soon as we got divorced, she couldn’t wait to marry you.


 

Nick Mikkelsen: I didn’t steal Janine from you.
Tommy Hambleton: Nobody belongs to anybody, Nick. But you meet a person, you become their partner. And once you’re together, you alter maybe a dozen other timelines. None of them ever happened, because one relationship negates all other possibilities.


 

Tommy Hambleton: Love is its own kind of crime, and every time we fall in love, we’re just stealing a person from somebody else, and all the possibilities that come with them.


 

Tommy Hambleton: Let me tell you something. I was lucky one time in my life. The day I met Janine. And if I’d really known that, I never would’ve let our marriage fall apart. So, you know, from the man who lost her, to the man who’s with her, cherish the day, Nick. Be happy. Happiness is the only thing more fleeting than time.


 

Janine Mikkelsen: [referring to Tommy] I was married to him. You don’t just stop caring about the people you used to love.

 

'Don't regret the past. The past is what brings us to where we need to be.' - Alex Leslie (Needle in a Timestack) Click To Tweet

 

Janine Mikkelsen: I know you used to be friends with Tommy, and because you despise him you think I should just be able to hate him too. But it’s different for me. You’ve never been married before. I spent almost eight years with Tommy, and that doesn’t just go away. I don’t love him, but I don’t not care about Tommy, and I can’t forget about the time we spent together. Because the good, bad, the everyday things, because every day led to the moment that I met you.


 

Janine Mikkelsen: The money Tommy spends on going back in time to try to break us up. He can’t undo us. Only we can do that. Love is drawn in the form of a circle. No one knows when it begins. And it never really ends. You and I, we’re just, we’re forever. Always, and all ways.


 

Nick Mikkelsen: [to Zoe] I used to joke with Janine I didn’t get it. I didn’t get it, how you have a best friend, you don’t speak the same language. But that’s how tight you two were. You didn’t need to speak the same language to be with one another, care about one another. And when you care about somebody, that’s all that matters.


 

Zoe Mikkelsen: I didn’t have a clue what it was like to lose somebody you love. Hold onto her, Nick. With everything you’ve got. Hold onto your wife.


 

Nick Mikkelsen: [to Janine] Just be with me always. And all ways.


 

Nick Mikkelsen: [after another timeshift] Wherever you are, whenever you are, I will find you. Okay? We’ll find our way back. Alright? Janine?


 

Nick Mikkelsen: [referring to Janine] I’m starting to forget my wife. I’m starting to lose her.


 

Alex Leslie: There’s something different with us. I know things don’t change overnight, but it feels like they have. We’re just becoming so distant, and I don’t know why. And I miss spending time with Nick.


 

Tommy Hambleton: [referring to Nick] We’re not really that close anymore. He and I, we kind of had a falling out.
Janine Mikkelsen: [referring to Alex] Over her?
Tommy Hambleton: Why did you say it like that?
Janine Mikkelsen: Because when guys have a falling out, usually it’s over a woman.
Tommy Hambleton: It wasn’t over her. I always wanted them together. I thought they’d be good for each other. I really thought they’d be happy.


 

Alex Leslie: [to Nick] Look, if it’s over, just tell me. Because something is different, and I can feel it. I know things change. But I always thought you and I would be timeless. I come home at night, and you’re there, and I’m here, and I just don’t see us. I don’t. So it needs to get better, or it needs to be done, but I’m not going to put up with not knowing which. Because I shouldn’t have to. I deserve better than that.

See more Needle in a Timestack Quotes


 

Donna: That’s what changes the most. You have a kid, and you don’t get to be selfish anymore. You’ve got to be about something besides yourself. It’s hard, but it’s special. It’s really special. I was starting to think I would never have the opportunity to experience what it would be like to be a family. But sometimes things work out the way they’re meant to.


 

Zoe Mikkelsen: Is there any other thing in life where the point is to limit your opportunities to one? It scares me.
Alex Leslie: Well, it’s also what makes relationships really exciting. Every day is an adventure.
Zoe Mikkelsen: Skydiving is an adventure. Monogamy is just misery with company. Although Valentine’s Day seems like a nice idea.


 

Alex Leslie: Tommy’s human. He has feelings just like everybody else, and he hurts, just like everybody else. Now, all the money in the world, it’s no good for loneliness.


 

Nick Mikkelsen: I’m not sure I’m supposed to be with Alex.
Zoe Mikkelsen: Oh, my God. You are literally the noise in the back of my head that reminds me why I don’t get into relationships.


 

Zoe Mikkelsen: You hear what you want to hear because your ears are tuned to the sound of your own bulls**t. You and Alex are happy together. I don’t understand what’s changed.
Nick Mikkelsen: No one knows what’s changed anymore. Yesterday stopped being yesterday when they figured out how to travel through time.


 

Zoe Mikkelsen: My life was wrecked. It was wrecked. And now it’s good, and I wouldn’t change it for anything.
Nick Mikkelsen: But you did change it. You changed it because it didn’t feel right.
Zoe Mikkelsen: You and Alex have been together forever.
Nick Mikkelsen: Have we?


 

Zoe Mikkelsen: You love Alex.
Nick Mikkelsen: What if I love someone else more?
Zoe Mikkelsen: Who? What is this person’s name? Where are they?


 

Zoe Mikkelsen: [to Nick] What if you go back and change your past, but you end up with no future? If you do change the past, I won’t know what happened or why. So I need you to remember that I love you. And I’ll always be here for you.


 

Nick Mikkelsen: [to Alex] I always just wanted you to be happy.


 

Nick Mikkelsen: [to Tommy, referring to Alex] She really cares about you, and I think if it wasn’t for me, you two might be together. So I’m going to take myself out of the picture. I have no idea what Alex is going to think about it, or what she’s going to feel, but if she still cares what I think, I’m going to tell her that you are absolutely the best person she could find. And that’s the truth. Me, and Donna, and Tate, we never cared who your dad was, or how much money you had. You’re our friend. And we love you. We just want, I just want you to be happy. Both of you.


 

Nick Mikkelsen: [after he’s time traveled and changed the past] Have I always been lonely?
Zoe Mikkelsen: This is really hard for me, Nick. I spent a lot of years just watching you collapse on yourself, and I don’t know why. I just want it to stop. I just want you to be happy.


 

Tommy Hambleton: Look. I don’t know how to say this. We’re concerned about you. I’m concerned about you.
Nick Mikkelsen: You shouldn’t be.
Tommy Hambleton: You were my best friend. How can I not be? Every good thing I have in my life is because of you.
Nick Mikkelsen: I think you were doing alright before you met me.
Tommy Hambleton: I mean it. These past few years have been the best.


 

Tommy Hambleton: I’m happy in myself, and that’s because of you. You’re the one who told me to be good with who I am. Nick, we miss you. We just want you to be happy.


 

Alex Leslie: We all miss seeing you, Nick. Do you stay away because of me? Look. I was really hurt when you broke things off. I really was. But over time, I think you were right. You know, we could’ve kept going, one year, five years maybe. I don’t know if you would’ve lasted. And if we hadn’t broken up, I wouldn’t be with Tommy. And if I wasn’t with Tommy…
[she puts Nick’s hand on her stomach, indicating she’s pregnant]


 

Alex Leslie: Don’t regret the past. The past is what brings us to where we need to be. We’ve missed you so much, Nick.
[then as Nick is about to leave he sees Janine and they feel their connection]

 


 

Trailer:



Filed Under: Best Quotes

Primary Sidebar

Looking for Something?

Lists

Copyright © 2023 | All Rights Reserved | All images are copyright of their respective owners | Stock images by Depositphotos

  • About
  • Contact
  • Site Policies
  • Blog
  • Twitter
  • Facebook