A character in Doctor Who
In 54 of the 1,966 quotes from Doctor Who
Most scenes with: Eleventh Doctor (50), Rory Williams (12), River Song (7)
We evacuate the town, our ship's just over the hills, room for everyone. I'll pop out, bring it back here, Robert's your uncle.
Really!? As simple as that? No crazy schemes? No negotiations?
I've matured. I'm twelve hundred years old now, plus I don't want to miss The Archers.
Oh, so you're not even a tiny bit curious?
Why would I be curious? It's a mysterious space cowboy assassin. Curious? Of course I'm not curious.
[Angrily] Today, I honour victims first; his, The Master's, the Daleks', all the people who died because of my mercy!
See, this is what happens when you travel alone for too long. Well listen to me, Doctor. We can't be like him. We have to be better than him.
[Amy, Rory, and the Doctor are sitting on the couch eating fish fingers and custard.]
If I had a restaurant, this'd be all I'd serve.
Yeah, right! You running a restaurant.
I've run restaurants. Who do you think invented the Yorkshire pudding?
[Laughs, then realises the Doctor is being serious] You didn't?
Pudding, yet savoury. Sound familiar?
Well, there was a time -- there were years when I couldn't live without you, um... When just the whole "everyday" thing would drive me crazy... But since you've dropped us back here, since you've given us this house, y'know, we've built a life! I-- I don't know if I can have both.
Why?
Because they pull at each other. Because they pull at me, and because the traveling is starting to feel like running away.
That's not what it is.
Oh, c'mon, look at you. Four days in a lounge and you go crazy.
I'm not running away. But this is one corner of one country in one continent on one planet that's a corner of a galaxy that's a corner of a universe that is forever growing and shrinking and creating and destroying and never remaining the same for a single millisecond, and there is so much, so much, to see, Amy, because it goes so fast. I'm not running away from things, I am running to them before they flare and fade forever. And it's alright. Our lives won't run the same. They can't. One day, soon maybe, you'll stop. I've known for a while.
Then why do you keep coming back for us?
Because you were the first. The first face this face saw. And you're seared onto my hearts, Amelia Pond. You always will be. I'm running to you and Rory before you fade from me.
The pest-controllers of the universe, that's how the tales went, isn't it?
Wow. That's some seriously weird bedtime story.
You can talk. Wolf in your grandmother's nightdress?
[The Doctor tears a page from the book he's reading]
Why did you do that?
Oh, I always rip out the last page of a book. Then it doesn't have to end. I hate endings!
Where did you get this book?
It was in my jacket.
How did it get there?
How does anything get there? I've given up asking.
That gravestone, Rory's, there's room for one more name, isn't there?
What are you talking about? Back away from the Angel. Come back to the TARDIS. We'll figure something out.
The Angel – would it send me back to the same time, to him?
I don't know. Nobody knows.
But it's my best shot, yeah?
No!
Doctor, shut up! Yes! Yes, it is!
Amy...
Well, then. I just have to blink, right?
No!
It'll be fine. I know it will. I'll- I'll- I’ll be with him, like I should be. Me and Rory together. [She pauses] Melody?
Stop it! Just- Just stop it!
[River comes forward and stands behind Amy, taking her hand]
[Crying] You look after him, and you be a good girl, and you look after him. [River kisses her hand]
You are creating fixed time. I will never be able to see you again!
[Sobbing harder] I'll be fine. I'll be with him.
[Also crying now] Amy, please, just come back into the TARDIS. Come along, Pond, please.
Raggedy man, [Amy turns to look the Doctor in the eye] goodbye!
[Amy vanishes as she is sent to the past by the angel. Amy's name appears alongside Rory's on the gravestone]
[Sobbing] No!
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.
[From the Doctor's perspective, he hears a little girl's laugh and sees a young Amelia Pond runs past him, the TARDIS walls and rails covered with drawings of the Eleventh Doctor and his adventures]
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.
[A vision of an adult Amy walks down the stairs. They touch each other's faces]
Raggedy man... Goodnight.
[The Amy vision disappears. The Doctor slowly takes off his bow tie and drops it on the floor, then closes his eyes in preparation to regenerate.]
No, no, no!
Hey... [extends his glowing hand to her]
Please don't change.
[The Doctor abruptly regenerates.]
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