“In the Forest of the Night” quotes from Doctor Who

[Sprites suddenly appear] They're lovely! They don't like it when you're holding them. They want you to let them go.

Who are they?

[through Maebh] We are here. Here always since the beginning and until the end.

Here, that's it?

We are the green shoots that grow between the cracks. The grass that grows over the mass graves. After your wars are over, we will still be here. We are the life that prevails.

Why now? Why are you here now?

We hear the call and we come. As we came before to the great north forest, where we lie still in the great circle, as we came to the vast southern forest.

Who's calling you now?

The sun that creates, the sun that destroys. You are hurting us, let us go.

You sent for me. The girl came looking for me. Why? Why me?

We did not… send… pain, did not send for you. We don't know you. We were here before you, and we'll be here after you.

This really is gonna happen, isn't it?

Stars implode, planets grow cold, catastrophe is the metabolism of the universe. I can fight monsters, I can't fight physics.

Why would trees want to kill us? We love trees.

You've been chopping them down for furniture for centuries. If that's love, no wonder they're calling down fire from the heavens.

But we saw the future. Lots of futures. Earth's futures.

They're about to be erased.

If you can't save them all, save what you can. TARDIS. It's a lifeboat, isn't it? Not everybody has to die.

I can save you.

I don't want you to.

What, you don't want to live?

Of course I want to live, I just--

What?

Don't make me say it.

Say what?

I don't want to be the last of my kind.

Then why did you bring us all here?

Because it's the only way to get you back to the TARDIS -- make you think you're saving someone. Well, you know what, Doctor? This time, the human race is saving you. Make it worthwhile.

This is my world, too. I walk your Earth, I breathe your air...

And on behalf of this world, you're very welcome. Now go. Save the next one.

So, trip to space, anyone?

I want my mum.

I slightly want my mum too.

Tell them, Mr. Pink, what an educational opportunity…

You… You go. This… this is enough for me.

What? Coronal ejections, geomagnetic storms, how often do you get a playlist like that?

I was a soldier. I put myself at risk. I didn't try too hard to survive but somehow, here I am. And now I can see what I nearly lost and it's enough. I don't want to see more things, I want to see the things that are in front of me more clearly. There are wonders here, Clara Oswald. Bradley saying "please", that's a wonder. One person is more amazing… harder to understand, but more amazing than universes.

Really? What person is that, then? [They kiss]

It’s the human superpower: forgetting. If you remembered how things felt, you’d have stopped having wars. And stopped having babies.