Clara Oswald quotes from Doctor Who

If you don't have a plan, we're dead!

Yes. We are. So just tell me.

Tell you what?

Well, we're about to die. There's no point now. Just tell me who you are.

[puzzled] You know who I am.

No, I don't. I look at you at you every single day, and I don't understand a thing about you. Why do I keep running into you?

Doctor, you invited me. You said —

Before that. I met you at the Dalek Asylum. There was a girl in a shipwreck, and she died saving my life, and she was you.

She really wasn't.

Victorian London. There was a governess who was really a barmaid, and we fought the Great Intelligence together. She died, and it was my fault, and she was you!

You're scaring me.

What are you, eh? A trick? A trap?

I don't know what you're talking about! [She stumbles backwards, and the Doctor clasps her to keep her from falling over the cliff beside them]

...You really don't, do you?

I think I'm more scared of you right now than anything else on that TARDIS.

You're just Clara, aren't you? [he hugs her]

Okay. I don't know what the hell this is about, but the hug is really nice.

What are you going to do?

Rewrite today, I hope. I've thrown this through the time rift before. I need to make sure this time. Gonna take it in there myself. There might be a certain amount of yelling.

Is it going to hurt?

Things that end your life often do that.

Wait! All those things you said. How we've met before, how I died.

Clara, don't worry. You'll forget. Time mends us. It can mend anything.

I don't wanna forget. Not all of it. The library. I saw it. You were mentioned in a book.

I'm mentioned in a lot of books.

You call yourself "Doctor". Why do you do that? You have a name. I've seen it in one corner of that tiny - [He silences her]

If I rewrite today, you won't remember. You won't go looking... for my name.

You'll still have secrets?

It's better that way.

[Emerging from the TARDIS] Okay! So, not London, 1893 – Yorkshire, 1893. Near enough.

You’re making a habit of this. Getting us lost.

Sorry. It’s much better than it used to be. I once spent a hell of a long time trying to get a gobby Australian to Heathrow airport.

What for?

Search me. Anyway— [There is a scream in the distance. They look at each other] Brave heart, Clara.

Right, right, London. We were headed for London, weren't we?

Was there any particular reason?

No! No, just thought you might...like it.

Yeah... Maybe had enough of Victorian values for a bit. [steps into the TARDIS]

You're the boss.

[pokes her head out, bemused] Am I?

[realising what he's just said] No! No! Get in! [Clara does so, smirking]

Hey, Clara! There you are. Now, a quick rundown. What's our weapons strength?

One big gun, five of those hand pulsar units, and a shiny black bomb that implodes the planet.

Yeah, yeah. That one. Now, tell me, does it happen, possibly, to have a sort-of remote triggery thing? [she shows it to him] Brilliant. Pass it here.

No.

Why not?

In case you're not you right now. Or even if you are – just in case.

Oh, don't worry. The Cyber-Planner's hibernating between moves right now. Shh.

Prove you're you. Tell me something only the Doctor knows.

Clara... I suppose... I'm the only one who knows how I... feel about you right now. How funny you are... so funny... and pretty. [she smiles] And the truth is I'm starting to like you in a way that is more than just... [he leans in to kiss her. She slaps him].

Ow! Ow, ow! Yes! It's me! That really hurt! How did you know that was him?

Because even if that was true, which it is... obviously not, I know you well enough to know that you would rather die than say it. Finish your stupid game-- [he suddenly grabs her arm] Doctor, let go!

[struggling] I can't... he's got control of the left arm...!

[scared] Doctor?

He got what he wanted. He destroyed the trigger. My move...

What do you mean, he got what he wanted?

[taking control again] He means... good news, boys and girls! THEEEEEEEEY'RE HEEEEEEEERE!

Ah, hello. Can someone untie me, please?

Do you think I'm pretty?

No. You're too short and bossy, and your nose is all funny.

Good enough.

It's a hell of a monument.

It's the TARDIS.

I can see that.

No. When a TARDIS is dying, sometimes the dimension dams start breaking down. They used to call it a size leak. All the bigger-on-the-inside starts leaking to the outside. It grows. When I say that's the TARDIS, I don't mean it looks like the TARDIS, I mean it actually is the TARDIS, my TARDIS from the future. What else would they bury me in?

[narrating] 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.

Doctor?

Yes? What is it? What do you want?

[narrating] Right from the very beginning.

Sorry, but you're about to make a very big mistake. Don't steal that one, steal this one. The navigation system's knackered, but you'll have much more fun.

[narrating] Right from the day he started running.

Who's that?

Never mind. Let's go back.

But who is he?

He's me. There's only me here. That's the point. Now let's get back.

But I never saw that one. I saw all of you. Eleven faces, all of them you! You're the eleventh Doctor!

I said he was me. I never said he was the Doctor.

I don't understand.

My name, my real name - that is not the point. The name I chose is the Doctor. The name you choose, is like... it's like a promise you make. He's the one who broke the promise.

Clara? Clara! Clara!

He is my secret.

What I did, I did without choice.

I know.

In the name of peace and sanity.

But not in the name of the Doctor!

How many worlds has his regret saved, do you think? Look over there -- humans and Zygons, working together in peace. How did you know?

Your eyes. They're so much younger.

...then it's time I grew up.

Well, gentlemen, it has been a honour and a privilege.

Likewise.

[pointedly] Doctor.

And if I grow to be half the man that you are, [turns to Clara] Clara Oswald, I shall be happy indeed.

That's right. Aim high.

I won't remember this, will I?

The time streams are out of sync. You can't retain it, no.

So I won't remember that I tried to save Gallifrey, rather than burn it. And I have to live with that. [His mood brightens slightly.] But for now, for this moment...I am the Doctor again. Thank you.

I'm the Doctor. I’m a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. I stole a time machine and ran away, and I've been flouting the principle law of my own people ever since! [Claps a hand over his mouth] That wasn't quite what I was meant to say.

I'm an English teacher from planet Earth, and I ran off with a man from space because I really fancy... [claps a hand over her mouth, looking shocked]

I think, perhaps, you should stop talking till you get used to it.

Used to what?

What did you say your name was?

Bubbly-personality-masking-bossy-control-freak! [Claps her hand back over her mouth]

I'm wearing a wig! [Claps hand over mouth. The couple laughs.] No! Ah, I see! Yes, of course. It's a truth field. Oh, that is so quaint. I haven't seen a truth field in years! I'm wearing a wig!

No one can lie in this town, especially this close to the tower.

Doesn't that make life a bit difficult?

Not at all.

Yes!

If you were trying to break through a wall, you'd choose the weakest spot. If you were trying to break into this universe you'd choose this crack, because — No! If you were trying to break back into this universe! [to Handles] You said "Gallifrey"! Why did you say "Gallifrey"?

Analysis of message composition indicates Gallifreyan origin according to TARDIS data banks.

You said Gallifrey was gone.

No, I said it was in another universe. The message is coming through here. The truth field is, too, at a guess. If it's the Time Lords — if it's the Time Lords! [he produces a Gallifreyan seal from his pocket] Seal of the High Council of Gallifrey, nicked it off the Master in the Death Zone. There is an algorithm imprinted in the atomic structure. Use it to decode the message.

Message decoding. Message analysis proceeding. Information available: The message is a request for information.

It's a question! Why can't you just say it's a question?!

It is being projected through all of time and space on a repeating cycle.

[realizing] "The oldest question in the universe, hidden in plain sight."

Warning: Translation will be available to all life forms in range. Translation follows: "Doctor who?" "Doctor who?" "Doctor who?"

It all just disappears, doesn't it? Everything you are, gone in a moment, like breath on a mirror. Any moment now... He's a-comin'.

Who's coming?

The Doctor.

You. You are the Doctor.

Yep, and I always will be. [his hand starts glowing] But times change, and so must I.

Amelia!

Who's Amelia?

The first face this face saw. We all change. When you think about it, we're all different people all through our lives, and that's okay, that's good, you gotta keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be. I will not forget one line of this. Not one day. I swear. I will always remember when the Doctor was me.

Raggedy man... Goodnight.

No, no, no!

Hey... [extends his glowing hand to her]

Please don't change.

Kidneys! I've got new kidneys! I don't like the colour.

Of your kidneys? [The TARDIS starts shaking] What's happening?!

We're probably crashing. Oh!

Into what?!

[pressing buttons] Stay calm! Just one question… Do you happen to know how to fly this thing?