‘The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. Hey. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t necessarily spoil the good things or make them unimportant.’
THE DOCTOR, VINCENT AND THE DOCTOR
‘I only take the best.’
THE DOCTOR, THE LONG GAME
‘How do you do? Have you met Miss Smith? She’s my best friend.’
THE DOCTOR, THE SEEDS OF DOOM
‘The Doctor sort of travels through time and space and picks people up. God, I make us sound like stray dogs. Maybe we are.’
MARTHA, UTOPIA
‘I’ve seen a lot of this universe. I’ve seen fake gods and bad gods and demi-gods and would-be gods, and out of all that, out of that whole pantheon, if I believe in one thing, just one thing, I believe in her.’
THE DOCTOR ON ROSE, THE SATAN PIT
BARBARA: We worked upwards from the three Rs . . . Reading, writing, ’rithmetic.
VICKI: Oh, it was a nursery school.
BARBARA: It was not!
THE WEB PLANET
‘I’m being extremely clever up here, and there’s no one to stand around looking impressed! What’s the point in having you all?’
THE DOCTOR, THE IMPOSSIBLE ASTRONAUT
THE VALEYARD: I have calculated on a random Matrix sample that the Doctor’s companions have been placed in danger twice as often as the Doctor.
THE DOCTOR: Well, there have been many companions, but only one me.
THE TRIAL OF A TIME LORD: MINDWARP
‘Anything you have to say to me, you can say in front of Clara. Well, quite a lot of it. Probably about half. Maybe a smidge under. Actually, Clara, would you mind waiting out here, please?’
THE DOCTOR, THE TIME OF THE DOCTOR
SARAH: What you’re trying to say is that you’re busy and you’d like us to push off.
THE DOCTOR: I’d phrase it more elegantly myself, of course. But yes.
THE SONTARAN EXPERIMENT
ROSE: You’re not keeping the horse.
THE DOCTOR: I let you keep Mickey.
THE GIRL IN THE FIREPLACE
‘Exotic alien swords are easy to come by. Aces are rare.’
THE DOCTOR, BATTLEFIELD
‘What you need, Doctor, as Miss Shaw herself so often remarked, is someone to pass you your test tubes and to tell you how brilliant you are. Miss Grant will fulfil that function admirably.’
THE BRIGADIER, TERROR OF THE AUTONS
THE DOCTOR: Sarah. What are you doing here?
SARAH: Rescuing you, actually. For a change.
THE ANDROID INVASION
‘Well, look round. Ask questions. People like it when you’re with a baby. Babies are sweet. People talk to you. That’s why I usually take a human with me.’
THE DOCTOR, CLOSING TIME
DONNA: I’m sorry. I’m going home.
THE DOCTOR: Really? . . . I had so many places I wanted to take you. The fifteenth broken moon of the Medusa Cascade. The lightning skies of Cotter Palluni’s World. Diamond coral reefs of Kataa Flo Ko. Thank you. Thank you, Donna Noble. It’s been brilliant. You’ve . . . you’ve saved my life in so many ways. You’re . . . you’re just popping home for a visit, that’s what you mean.
DONNA: You dumbo.
THE SONTARAN STRATAGEM
ROMANA: My name is Romanadvoratrelundar.
THE DOCTOR: I’m so sorry about that. Is there anything we can do?
THE RIBOS OPERATION
‘Is that why you travel round with a human at your side? It’s not so you can show them the wonders of the universe, it’s so you can take cheap shots?’
DONNA, PLANET OF THE OOD
ROMANA: I don’t like ‘Romana’.
THE DOCTOR: It’s either ‘Romana’ or ‘Fred’.
ROMANA: All right, call me ‘Fred’.
THE DOCTOR: Good. Come on, Romana.
THE RIBOS OPERATION
‘Your mind is beginning to work. It’s entirely due to my influence, of course. You mustn’t take any credit.’
THE DOCTOR TO HARRY, THE ARK IN SPACE
‘Do you think that for once in your life you could manage to arrive before the nick of time?’
THE DOCTOR TO THE BRIGADIER, THE MIND OF EVIL
STEVEN: You know, I’m beginning to like the idea of being a crewmember on a time machine.
VICKI: A crewmember? You’ll be lucky. He’s the crew. We’re just the passengers.
THE TIME MEDDLER
THE DOCTOR: I wanted to see how you were. You know me, I don’t just abandon people when they leave the TARDIS. This Time Lord’s for life. You don’t get rid of your old pal, the Doctor, so easily.
AMY: Hmm. You came here by mistake, didn’t you?
THE DOCTOR: Yeah, bit of a mistake.
AMY’S CHOICE
THE DOCTOR: How do you feel now?
TEGAN: Groggy, sore and bad-tempered.
THE DOCTOR: Oh, almost your old self.
THE VISITATION
THE DOCTOR: Well, come on, old girl. There’s quite a few millennia left in you yet.
ROMANA: Thank you, Doctor.
THE DOCTOR: Not you, the TARDIS.
THE HORNS OF NIMON
‘Sometimes I do worry about you, though. I think once we’re gone, you won’t be coming back here for a while, and you might be alone, which you should never be. Don’t be alone, Doctor.’
AMY, THE ANGELS TAKE MANHATTAN
ROSE: He’s your dad.
TOMMY: He’s an idiot.
ROSE: Of course he is. Like I said, he’s your dad.
THE IDIOT’S LANTERN
‘Weak and strong. It’s a translation. Translated from the base code of nature itself. You and I, Cyril, we’re weak. But she’s female. More than female, she’s Mum. How else does life ever travel? The Mother ship.’
THE DOCTOR, THE DOCTOR, THE WIDOW AND THE WARDROBE
‘There isn’t a little boy born who wouldn’t tear the world apart to save his mummy. And this little boy can.’
THE DOCTOR, THE DOCTOR DANCES
‘Your dad’s trying his best, you know. Yes, I know it’s not his fault he doesn’t have mammary glands. No, neither do I.’
THE DOCTOR, CLOSING TIME
‘Nine hundred years of time and space, and I’ve never been slapped by someone’s mother.’
THE DOCTOR, ALIENS OF LONDON
‘Oh, who needs family? I’ve got the whole world on my shoulders.’
THE DOCTOR, THE AGE OF STEEL
ROSE: This is my fault.
PETE: No, love. I’m your dad. It’s my job for it to be my fault.
FATHER’S DAY
THE DOCTOR: My dear girl, the one purpose in growing old is to accumulate knowledge and wisdom, and to help other people.
SUSAN: So I’m to be treated like a silly little child.
THE DOCTOR: If you behave like one, yes.
THE SENSORITES
‘You’re a mother, aren’t you . . . There’s kindness in your eyes. And sadness, but a ferocity too.’
KAHLER-JEX TO AMY, A TOWN CALLED MERCY
DROXIL: There’s nothing you could say that would convince me you’d ever use that gun.
MADGE: Oh really? Well, I’m looking for my children.
THE DOCTOR, THE WIDOW AND THE WARDROBE
THE DOCTOR: I just want you to know there are worlds out there, safe in the sky because of her. That there are people living in the light, and singing songs of Donna Noble, a thousand million light years away. They will never forget her, while she can never remember. And for one moment, one shining moment, she was the most important woman in the whole wide universe.
SYLVIA: She still is. She’s my daughter.
THE DOCTOR: Then maybe you should tell her that once in a while.
JOURNEY’S END
CRAIG: Yes, I meant on my own with the baby. Yes. Because no one thinks I can cope on my own. Which is so unfair, because I can’t cope on my own with him. I can’t. He just cries all the time. I mean, do they have off switches?
THE DOCTOR: Human beings? No. Believe me, I’ve checked.
CLOSING TIME
VICTORIA: You probably can’t remember your family.
THE DOCTOR: Oh yes, I can when I want to. And that’s the point, really. I have to really want to, to bring them back in front of my eyes. The rest of the time they sleep in my mind, and I forget.
THE TOMB OF THE CYBERMEN
‘Build high for happiness.’
THE KANGS, PARADISE TOWERS
‘I think it does us good to be reminded the universe isn’t entirely peopled with nasty creatures out for themselves.’
THE DOCTOR, CASTROVALVA
‘Happiness will prevail.’
HELEN A, THE HAPPINESS PATROL
‘You want moves, Rose? I’ll give you moves. Everybody lives, Rose. Just this once, everybody lives!’
THE DOCTOR, THE DOCTOR DANCES
‘As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves.’
THE DOCTOR, THE EDGE OF DESTRUCTION
‘Mankind doesn’t need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour, and let’s hope that from now on this, this country can find its heroes in smaller places.’
JOHN SMITH, HUMAN NATURE
THE DOCTOR: I could rule the universe with this, Chancellor.
BORUSA: Is that what you want? Destroy that gun. Destroy all knowledge of it. It’ll throw us back to the darkest age!
SONTARAN: No, Chancellor, forward.
THE INVASION OF TIME
WATSON: They’re the most powerful missiles we have.
THE DOCTOR: On your standards, perhaps. I think we should try much older weapons . . . Speech. Diplomacy . . . Conversation.
THE HAND OF FEAR
MARSHAL: We must have the weapon that will wipe the Zeons clear of our skies once and for all. Can you provide it?
THE DOCTOR: Yes, I think so.
MARSHAL: What is it?
THE DOCTOR: Peace.
THE ARMAGEDDON FACTOR
‘Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair, and the Doctor comes to call, everybody lives.’
RIVER SONG, FOREST OF THE DEAD
‘Brave heart, Tegan.’
THE DOCTOR, EARTHSHOCK
DESTROYER: Pitiful. Can this world do no better than you as their champion?
THE BRIGADIER: Probably. I just do the best I can.
BATTLEFIELD
‘Unless we are prepared to sacrifice our lives for the good of all, then evil and anarchy will spread like the plague.’
THE DOCTOR, THE TRIAL OF A TIME LORD: THE ULTIMATE FOE
‘It was a better life. And I don’t mean all the travelling and seeing aliens and spaceships and things. That don’t matter. The Doctor showed me a better way of living your life. You know, he showed you too. That you don’t just give up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand. You say no. You have the guts to do what’s right when everyone else just runs away, and I just can’t.’
ROSE, THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
OCTAVIAN: I will die in the knowledge that my courage did not desert me at the end. For that I thank God, and bless the path that takes you to safety.
THE DOCTOR: I wish I’d known you better.
OCTAVIAN: I think, sir, you know me at my best.
FLESH AND STONE
‘I’ve a young friend on the Beacon. Sarah Jane, the girl who was here. She risked her life to save mine. The least I can do is accept the same risk for her.’
THE DOCTOR, REVENGE OF THE CYBERMEN
‘Courage isn’t just a matter of not being frightened, you know . . . It’s being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.’
THE DOCTOR, PLANET OF THE DALEKS
THE DOCTOR: I’m going to save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek fleet. And then I’m going to save the Earth, and then, just to finish off, I’m going to wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky!
DALEK: But you have no weapons, no defences, no plan.
THE DOCTOR: Yeah. And doesn’t that scare you to death.
BAD WOLF
JENNY: Madame Vastra will ask you questions. You will confine yourself to single-word responses. One word only, do you understand?
CLARA: Why?
VASTRA: Truth is singular. Lies are words, words, words.
THE SNOWMEN
‘For a lie to work, madam, it must be shrouded in truth.’
THE MASTER, THE TRIAL OF A TIME LORD: THE ULTIMATE FOE
‘I have the two qualities you require to see absolute truth. I am brilliant, and unloved.’
MISS EVANGELISTA, FOREST OF THE DEAD
‘The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don’t alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.’
THE DOCTOR, THE FACE OF EVIL
‘Only in mathematics will we find truth.’
THE DOCTOR, QUOTING BORUSA, THE DEADLY ASSASSIN
‘If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best. My friends have always been the best of me.’
THE DOCTOR, THE WEDDING OF RIVER SONG
THE DOCTOR: I imagine you’d prefer to be alone.
MADGE: I don’t believe anyone would prefer that.
THE DOCTOR, THE WIDOW AND THE WARDROBE
DONNA: That Martha must’ve done you good.
THE DOCTOR: She did, yeah. Yeah. She did. She fancied me.
DONNA: Mad Martha, that one. Blind Martha. Charity Martha.
PARTNERS IN CRIME
‘People fall out of the world sometimes, but they always leave traces. Little things we can’t quite account for. Faces in photographs, luggage, half-eaten meals. Rings. Nothing is ever forgotten, not completely. And if something can be remembered, it can come back.’
THE DOCTOR, THE PANDORICA OPENS
‘You were there for me when I had a bad day. Always like to return a favour. Got a bit glitchy in the middle there, but it sort of worked out in the end. Story of my life.’
THE DOCTOR, THE DOCTOR, THE WIDOW AND THE WARDROBE
‘Love has never been known for its rationality.’
THE DOCTOR, DELTA AND THE BANNERMEN
MARRINER: Without you I am nothing . . . I am empty. You give me being. I look into your mind and see life, energy, excitement. I want them. I want you. Your thoughts should be my thoughts. Your feelings, my feelings.
TEGAN: Wait a minute. Are you trying to tell me you’re in love?
MARRINER: Love? What is love? I want existence.
ENLIGHTENMENT
‘Love and hate, frightening feelings, especially when they’re trapped struggling beneath the surface.’
THE DOCTOR, THE CURSE OF FENRIC
‘You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful and then you actually talk to them, and five minutes later they’re as dull as a brick? Then there’s other people, and you meet them and you think, not bad, they’re OK. And then you get to know them, and their face just sort of becomes them, like their personality’s written all over it. And they just turn into something so beautiful.’
AMY, THE GIRL WHO WAITED
‘I’m going to pull time apart for you.’
AMY, THE GIRL WHO WAITED
AMY: I love you, too. Don’t let me in. Tell Amy, your Amy, I’m giving her the days. The days with you. The days to come.
RORY: I’m so, so sorry.
AMY: The days I can’t have. Take them, please. I’m giving you my days.’
THE GIRL WHO WAITED
CRAIG: The Cybermen. They blew up. I blew them up with love.
THE DOCTOR: No, that’s impossible. And also grossly sentimental and over-simplistic. You destroyed them because of the deeply ingrained hereditary human trait to protect one’s own genes, which in turn triggered a . . . a . . . a . . . Yeah. Love. You blew them up with love.
CLOSING TIME
‘Better a broken heart than no heart at all.’
THE DOCTOR, A CHRISTMAS CAROL
THE DOCTOR: My dear boy, I could kiss you!
BARBARA: Don’t waste it on him, kiss me instead!
THE CHASE
JACKIE: I’m in my dressing gown.
THE DOCTOR: Yes, you are.
JACKIE: There’s a strange man in my bedroom.
THE DOCTOR: Yes, there is.
JACKIE: Well, anything could happen.
THE DOCTOR: No.
ROSE
LAZARUS: That’s an interesting perfume. What’s it called?
TISH: Soap.
THE LAZARUS EXPERIMENT
TASHA: Is that a new body? Give us a twirl.
THE DOCTOR: Tush, this old thing? Please, I’ve been rocking it for centuries.
THE TIME OF THE DOCTOR
ROSE: OK, so he’s vanished into thin air. Why is it always the great-looking ones who do that?
THE DOCTOR: I’m making an effort not to be insulted.
ROSE: I mean, men.
THE DOCTOR: OK, thanks, that really helped.
THE DOCTOR DANCES
‘The thrill is in the chase, never in the capture.’
AGATHA CHRISTIE, THE UNICORN AND THE WASP
THE BRIGADIER: You may not have noticed, but I’m a bit old-fashioned myself.
SARAH: Oh, nonsense, Brigadier. You’re a swinger.
ROBOT
JABE: The gift of peace. I bring you a cutting of my grandfather.
THE DOCTOR: Thank you. Yes, gifts. Er, I give you in return air from my lungs.
JABE: How intimate.
THE DOCTOR: There’s more where that came from.
JABE: I bet there is.
THE END OF THE WORLD
THE DOCTOR: I just want a mate.
DONNA: You just want to mate?
THE DOCTOR: I just want a mate!
DONNA: You’re not mating with me, sunshine!
PARTNERS IN CRIME
‘He saved my life. Bloke-wise, that’s up there with flossing.’
ROSE, THE DOCTOR DANCES
HAWTHORNE: Sergeant, we must do the fertility dance to celebrate.
BENTON: Oh, no, I’m sorry, ma’am. I’m still rather busy.
THE DAEMONS
THE DOCTOR: Your boss, you should just ask her out. She likes you . . . She said that you were a Mister Hottie-ness, and that she would like to go out with you for texting and scones.
RORY: You really haven’t done this before, have you?
THE DOCTOR: No, I haven’t.
THE WEDDING OF RIVER SONG
RORY: There are soldiers all over my house, and I’m in my pants.
AMY: My whole life I’ve dreamed of saying that, and I miss it by being someone else.
THE POWER OF THREE
‘My lonely Doctor. Dance with me . . . There comes a time, Time Lord, when every lonely little boy must learn how to dance.’
REINETTE, THE GIRL IN THE FIREPLACE
CLARA: Do you think I’m pretty?
THE DOCTOR: No. You’re too short and bossy, and your nose is all funny.
NIGHTMARE IN SILVER
‘Nine hundred years old, me. I’ve been around a bit. I think you can assume at some point I’ve danced.’
THE DOCTOR, THE DOCTOR DANCES
‘This is how it all ends. Pond flirting with herself. True love at last.’
THE DOCTOR, TIME
THE DOCTOR: Do you mind flirting outside?
JACK: I was just saying hello!
THE DOCTOR: For you, that’s flirting.
BAD WOLF
ROSE: You just handed me a piece of paper telling me you’re single and you work out.
JACK: Tricky thing, psychic paper.
ROSE: Yeah. Can’t let your mind wander when you’re handing it over.
THE EMPTY CHILD
THE DOCTOR: We were talking about dancing.
JACK: It didn’t look like talking.
ROSE: It didn’t feel like dancing.
THE DOCTOR DANCES
K-9: She is prettier than you, master.
THE DOCTOR: Is she? What’s that got to do with it?
THE PIRATE PLANET
‘A Zygon, yes. Big red rubbery thing covered in suckers. Surprisingly good kisser.’
THE DOCTOR, THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR
‘You’re never short of a snog with an extra head.’
THE DOCTOR, THE TIME OF ANGELS
KAZRAN: I’ve never kissed anyone before. What do I do?
THE DOCTOR: Try and be all nervous and rubbish and a bit shaky . . . Because you’re going to be like that anyway. Might as well make it part of the plan, then it’ll feel on purpose . . . Trust me. It’s this or go to your room and design a new kind of screwdriver. Don’t make my mistakes.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
RORY: Of course I’ve got a job. What do you think we do when we’re not with you?
THE DOCTOR: I imagined mostly kissing.
THE POWER OF THREE
‘We’ve all got to go some time. There are worse ways than having your face snogged off by a dodgy mermaid.’
THE DOCTOR, THE CURSE OF THE BLACK SPOT
JACKIE: What do you need?
THE DOCTOR: Anything with vinegar!
JACKIE: Gherkins. Yeah, pickled onions. Pickled eggs.
THE DOCTOR: And you kiss this man?
WORLD WAR THREE
‘Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing, only there’s a winner.’
IDRIS, THE DOCTOR’S WIFE
THE DOCTOR: She kissed me.
RORY: And you kissed her back.
THE DOCTOR: No. I kissed her mouth.
THE VAMPIRES OF VENICE
THE WAR DOCTOR: Is there a lot of this in the future?
THE DOCTOR: It does start to happen, yeah.
THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR
‘I dated a Nestene duplicate once. Swappable head. It did keep things fresh.’
RIVER SONG, THE BIG BANG
‘You think you know us so well, Doctor. But we’re not abandoned. Not while we have each other.’
BRANNIGAN, GRIDLOCK
THE BRIGADIER: Oh dear. Women. Not really my field.
THE DOCTOR: Don’t worry, Brigadier. People will be shooting at you soon.
BATTLEFIELD
IAN: Where did you get hold of this?
THE DOCTOR: My fiancée.
IAN: I see. Your what?
THE DOCTOR: Yes, I made some cocoa and got engaged.
THE AZTECS
‘I don’t care that you got old. I care that we didn’t grow old together.’
RORY, THE GIRL WHO WAITED
CLARA: Emergency. You’re my boyfriend.
THE DOCTOR: Ding dong. OK, brilliant. I may be a bit rusty in some areas, but I will glance at a manual.
THE TIME OF THE DOCTOR
KAZRAN: When girls are crying, are you supposed to talk to them?
THE DOCTOR: I have absolutely no idea.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
RORY: Amy, I thought I’d lost you.
AMY: What, cause I was sucked into the ground? You’re so clingy.
COLD BLOOD
‘Let me tell you something about those who get left behind. Because it’s hard. And that’s what you become, hard. But if there’s one thing I’ve learnt, it’s that I will never let her down. And I’ll protect them both until the end of my life. So whatever you want, I’m warning you, back off.’
JACKIE TYLER, LOVE & MONSTERS
‘Sometimes it’s like I’ve lived a thousand lives in a thousand places. I’m born, I live, I die. And always, there’s the Doctor. Always I’m running to save the Doctor again and again and again . . . And he hardly ever hears me. But I’ve always been there.’
CLARA, THE NAME OF THE DOCTOR
‘It’s the oldest story in the universe, this one or any other. Boy and girl fall in love, get separated by events. War, politics, accidents in time. She’s thrown out of the hex, or he’s thrown into it. Since then they’ve been yearning for each other across time and space, across dimensions. This isn’t a ghost story, it’s a love story!’
THE DOCTOR, HIDE
‘Hold hands. That’s what you’re meant to do. Keep doing that and don’t let go. That’s the secret.’
THE DOCTOR, HIDE
‘Hello Sweetie!’
RIVER SONG, SILENCE IN THE LIBRARY
CHURCHILL: What’s she like? Attractive, I assume.
THE DOCTOR: Hell, in high heels.
CHURCHILL: Tell me more.
THE WEDDING OF RIVER SONG
‘You know when you see a photograph of someone you know, but it’s from years before you knew them and it’s like they’re not quite finished. They’re not done yet. Well, yes, the Doctor’s here. He came when I called, just like he always does. But not my Doctor. Now my Doctor, I’ve seen whole armies turn and run away. And he’d just swagger off back to his TARDIS and open the doors with a snap of his fingers. The Doctor in the TARDIS. Next stop, everywhere.’
RIVER SONG, FOREST OF THE DEAD
THE DOCTOR: River Song, I could bloody kiss you.
RIVER: Ah well, maybe when you’re older.
FLESH AND STONE
‘It was never going to be a gun for you, Doctor. The man of peace who understands every kind of warfare, except, perhaps, the cruellest.’
RIVER SONG, LET’S KILL HITLER
THE DOCTOR: Doctor Song, you’ve got that face on again.
RIVER: What face?
THE DOCTOR: The ‘he’s hot when he’s clever’ face.
RIVER: This is my normal face.
THE DOCTOR: Yes, it is.
RIVER: Oh, shut up.
THE IMPOSSIBLE ASTRONAUT
RIVER: I’d trust that man to the end of the universe. And actually, we’ve been.
ANITA: He doesn’t act like he trusts you.
RIVER: Yeah, there’s a tiny problem. He hasn’t met me yet.
FOREST OF THE DEAD
‘You, me, handcuffs. Must it always end this way?’
RIVER SONG, FLESH AND STONE
‘It’s a long story, Doctor. It can’t be told, it has to be lived. No sneak previews.’
RIVER SONG, FLESH AND STONE
THE DOCTOR: Can I trust you, River Song?
RIVER: If you like. But where’s the fun in that?
FLESH AND STONE
‘Funny thing is, this means you’ve always known how I was going to die. All the time we’ve been together, you knew I was coming here. The last time I saw you, the real you, the future you, I mean, you turned up on my doorstep, with a new haircut and a suit. You took me to Darillium to see the Singing Towers. What a night that was. The Towers sang, and you cried.’
RIVER SONG, FOREST OF THE DEAD
RIVER: How are you even doing that? I’m not really here.
THE DOCTOR: You are always here to me. And I always listen, and I can always see you.
RIVER: Then why didn’t you speak to me?
THE DOCTOR: Because I thought it would hurt too much.
RIVER: I believe I could have coped.
THE DOCTOR: No, I thought it would hurt me. And I was right.
THE NAME OF THE DOCTOR
‘Living minds are contaminated with crude emotions, organic, irrational, creative, entertaining.’
THE DOCTOR, ENLIGHTENMENT
‘There is no indignity in being afraid to die. But there is a terrible shame in being afraid to live.’
ALYDON, THE DALEKS
‘If you’re so desperate to stay alive, why don’t you live a little?’
THE DOCTOR, NEW EARTH
‘Letting it get to you. You know what that’s called? Being alive. Best thing there is. Being alive right now, that’s all that counts.’
THE DOCTOR, THE DOCTOR’S WIFE