“The Haunting of Villa Diodati” quotes from Doctor Who

Doctor? What are you doing? Where are going?

You're not leaving us!?

I have to find out what he's looking for. Alone.

You need back up! All of us against one!

One Cyberman but then thousands. Humans like all of you changed into empty, soulless shells. No feeling, no control, no way back. I will not [[w:Bill Potts (Doctor Who)| lose anyone else to that!

You appear courageous but your vital signs betray a heightened state of anxiety.

Or as I like to call it, Tuesday.

Shelley's only one life against all those others.

But is he, Ryan? His thoughts, his words, inspire and influence thousands for centuries. If he dies now, who knows what damage that will have on future history? Words matter! One death, one ripple, and history will change in a blink. The future will not be the world you know. The world you came from, the world you were created in, won't exist, so neither will you. It's not just his life at stake, it's yours. You want to sacrifice yourself for this? You want me to sacrifice you? You want to call it? Do it now. All of you. [None of the companions respond] Yeah. Cos sometimes this team structure isn't flat. It's mountainous, with me at the summit in the stratosphere. Alone. Left to choose. Save the poet, save the universe. Watch people burn now or tomorrow. Sometimes, even I can't win.

You saved Shelley, but what does that mean for the future?

It means I put it in the gravest danger.

Please, tell me that was part of the plan.

Yes. A last-minute, imperfect, all-I've-got plan. Saving Shelley was step one.

What's step two?

Fix the mess I created in step one.

(reading his poem "Darkness.) The world was void, the populous and the powerful was a lump, seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — a lump of death — a chaos of hard clay. Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, and their masts fell down piecemeal: as they dropp'd they slept on the abyss without a surge — the waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before; the winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, and the clouds perish'd; darkness had no need of aid from them — she was the Universe.