“The Wedding of River Song” quotes from Doctor Who

Imagine you were dying. Imagine you were afraid and a long way from home and in terrible pain. Just when you thought it couldn't get worse, you looked up.... and saw the face of the Devil himself. [pause] Hello, Dalek.

[Panicked] Emergency! Emergency! Weapon systems disabled! Emergency!

Hush now. I need some information from your data core. Everything the Daleks know about the Silence...

Why Lake Silencio? Why Utah?

It's a still point in time. Makes it easier to create a fixed point. And your death is a fixed point, Doctor. You can't run away from this.

[arrogantly] I've been running all my life, why should I stop?

Because now you know what's at stake. Why your life must end.

Not today.

What's the point in delaying? How long have you delayed already?!

Been knocking about. Bit of a farewell tour. Things to do, people to see. There's always more. I could invent a new colour, save the Dodo, join the Beatles. [On the phone] Hello, it's me! Get him, tell him we're going out and it's all on me except for the money and the driving! [To Dorium, boasting angrily] I have got a time machine, Dorium! It's all still going on! For me, it never stops! Liz the First is still waiting in a glade to elope with me! I could help Rose Tyler with her homework! I could go on all Jack's stag parties in one night!

Time catches up with us all, Doctor!

Well, it has never laid a glove on me! [On the phone again] Hello?

Doctor, I'm so sorry. We didn't know how to contact you. I'm afraid Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart passed away a few months ago. Doctor?

[Shocked] Yes, yes.

It was very peaceful. Talked a lot about you, if that's any comfort. Always made us pour an extra brandy, in case you came 'round one of these days.

Doctor? What's wrong?

Nothing, I... just...[hangs up the phone, sighs, and pulls out the blue envelopes from his pocket]...it's time. It's time.

The loyal soldier, waiting to be noticed, always the pattern: why is that?

Sorry, sir?

Your boss, you should just ask her out. She likes you. She said so.

[Dryly] Really, sir? What did she say?

Ah, she just sort of generally indicated —

[Turns and looks him straight in the eye] What exactly did she say?

[Stuttering] Well, she said you were a Mr. Hottie-ness... and that she would like to go out with you for texting and scones. [Smiles hopefully]

[Stares at him] You really haven't done this before, have you?

No, I haven't.

Those reports of the sunspots and the solar flares, they're wrong. It's not the Sun, it's you. The sky is full of a million million voices saying, "Yes, of course we'll help." You've touched so many lives, saved so many people, did you think when your time came you'd really have to do more than just ask? You've decided that the universe is better off without you. But the universe doesn't agree.

River, no one can help me. A fixed point has been altered. Time is disintegrating.

I can't let you die!

I have to die!

Shut up! I can't let you die — without knowing you are loved — by so many, and so much — and by no one more than me.

River, you and I know what this means. We are Ground Zero of an explosion that will engulf all reality. Billions on billions will suffer and die.

I'll suffer, if I have to kill you.

More than every living thing in the universe?

Yes.

So you're going to do this, let them all think you're dead?

It's the only way. Then they can all forget me. I got too big, Dorium, too noisy. Time to step back into the shadows.

And Doctor Song? In prison, all her days?

Her days, yes. Her nights... well... that's between her and me, eh?

So many secrets, Doctor. [Chuckling] I'll help you keep them, of course.

Well, you're not exactly going anywhere, are you?

But you're a fool, nonetheless. It's all still waiting for you - the fields of Trenzalore, the fall of the Eleventh, and the Question.

[Saluting as he exits] Goodbye, Dorium.

[Shouting after him] The first question! The question that must never be answered! Hidden in plain sight! The question you've been running from all your life! Doctor Who? Doctor Who? Doc — tor — who?!