Doctor Who quotes

Why are you showing me all this?

You followed me, remember. I didn't invite you.

You're nearly a foot taller than I am. You could have reached the ladder without this. [She indicates the umbrella held in her hand] You took it. For me. [She throws him the umbrella] Why?

I never know why. I only know who. [He conjures a TARDIS key up and places it in her hand]

[In 1207 AD, answering the TARDIS phone] Hello?

[In 2013 AD, on her telephone] Ah, hello! I can’t find the Internet.

I'm sorry?

It's gone, the Internet. Can't find it anywhere. Where is it?

The Internet?

Yes, the Internet. Why don't I have the Internet?

It's 1207.

I've got half past three. Am I phoning a different time zone?

Yeah, you really sort of are.

Will it show up on the bill?

Oh, I dread to think.

When you say mobile phone, why do you point at that blue box?

Because it's a surprisingly accurate description!

Okay. We're finished now.

I'm the Doctor. I'm an alien from outer space. I'm a thousand years old, I've got two hearts, and I can’t fly a plane! Can you?

No!

Ooh, fine! Let's do it together!

[out of breath] Would a victory roll be too showy-offy?

But a hundred and one places to see, and you haven’t been to any of them, have you? That's why you keep the book.

I keep the book 'cause I'm still going.

But you don't run out on the people you care about. Wish I was more like that. You know, the thing about a time machine, you can run away all you like and still back in time for tea, so what do you say? Anywhere. All of time and space right outside those doors.

Does this work?

Hey?

[laughs] This is actually what you do? Do you just crook your fingers and people just jump in your snog box and fly away?

It is not a snog box!

I'll be the judge of that.

Starting when?

Come back tomorrow. Ask me again.

Why?

'Cause tomorrow I might say yes. [starts for the doors] Some time after seven okay for you?

It's a time machine. Any time's okay.

Did you just lock us in?

Yep.

With the soul-eating monster?

Yep.

And is there actually a way to get out?

What? Before it eats our souls?

Ideally, yes.

Possibly. Probably. There usually seems to be.

[to Merry] You are unique in the universe. There is only one Merry Gejelh, and there will never be another. Getting rid of that existence isn't a sacrifice, it is a waste.

We don't walk away, but when we're holding onto something precious, we run, and we don't stop running until we're out of the shadows.

[singing] Rest now, my warrior... Rest now, your hardship is over.

[to Akhaten] Okay, then. That’s what I’ll do. I’ll tell you a story.

Live... wake up, wake up, and let the cloak of life cling to your bones...

Can you hear them? All these people who've lived in terror of you and your judgement. All these people whose ancestors devoted themselves, sacrificed themselves, to you. Can you hear them singing?

Wake up, Wake up...

Oh, you like to think you're a god! But you're not a god. You're just a parasite, eaten out with jealous and envy and longing for the lives of others. You feed on them - on the memory of love and loss and birth and death and joy and sorrow! So... so... come on, then. Take mine. Take my memories. But I hope you've got a big appetite, because I've lived a long life, and I have seen a few things...

Live... Wake up, wake up, and let the cloak of life cling to your bones... [Vocalizing] ... To your bones. Wake up, wake up. [song ends]

I walked away from the Last Great Time War. I marked the passing of the Time Lords. I saw the birth of the universe, and I watched as time ran out, moment by moment, until nothing remained. No time, no space – just me! I walked in universes where the laws of physics were devised by the mind of a madman! And I have watched universes freeze and creations burn! I have seen things you wouldn't believe! I have lost things you will never understand! And I know things - secrets that must never be told, knowledge that must never be spoken! Knowledge that will make parasite gods BLAZE! SO COME ON, THEN! TAKE IT! TAKE IT ALL, BABY! HAVE IT! YOU HAVE IT ALL!!!

Still hungry? Well, I brought something for you. This. The most important leaf in human history. The most important leaf in human history! It's full of stories. Full of history. And full of a future that never got lived. Days that should have been and never were. Passed on to me. This leaf isn't just the past, it's a whole future that never happened. There are billions and millions of unlived days for every day we live — an infinity. All the days that never came. And these are all my mum's.

Well? Come on then. Eat up! Are you full? I expect so. Because there's quite a difference, isn't there, between what was and what should have been? There's an awful lot of one, but there's an infinity of the other! And infinity is too much. Even for your appetite.

Are we going to be okay?

Yes.

Is that a lie?

Possibly. Very dangerous time, Clara. East and West standing on the brink of nuclear oblivion. Lots of itchy fingers on the button.

Isn't it always like that?

Sorta. But there are flash points and this is one of them. Hair, shoulder pads, nukes. It's the '80s. Everything's bigger.

We were drilling for oil in the ice. I thought I'd found a mammoth.

It's not a mammoth.

No.

What is it, then?

It's an Ice Warrior! A native of the planet Mars. And we go way back. Way back.

Martian? You can't be serious!

I'm always serious. With days off.

Doctor.

Just keeping it light, Clara. They're scared.

They're scared? I'm scared!

The TARDIS! Where's the TARDIS? You never explained.

Oh, well, don't worry about that.

Stop saying that. Where is it?

Yeah. Well, I wasn't to know, was I?

Know what?

I've been tinkering, breaking her in. I'm allowed.

What did you do?

[mumbling] I reset the HADS.

Huh?

I reset [suddenly quieting his voice] the HADS.

The what?

The HADS! The Hostile Action Displacement System! If the TARDIS comes under attack, gunfire, time winds, the... sea, it... relocates!

Oh, Doctor...

Haven't used it in donkey's years. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Well, never mind, it's bound to turn up somewhere. [The Doctor's sonic screwdriver is heard whirring in his pocket] Ooh. Ha! See? Right on cue. [He examines his screwdriver's readings] Brilliant.

Brilliant.

The TARDIS is at the Pole.

Not far, then.

[sheepish] The South Pole.

Ah.

[to Captain Zhukov, embarrassed] Could we have a lift? [Both Clara and Zhukov laugh as they head back into the submarine; the Doctor laughs sarcastically after them]

Back in a mo'. You alright?

Totally. Peachy keen.

Okay, then. Well, don't press any buttons or pull any levers or make funny faces. Actually, don't move. Stand completely still. Don't breathe. Well... you can breathe, but shallow breaths.

Have we just watched the entire life cycle of Earth, birth to death?

Yes.

And you're okay with that?

Yes...

How can you be?

The TARDIS. She's... time. We... wibbly vortex and so on.

That's not what I mean.

Okay. Some help? Context? Cheat sheet? Something?

I mean one minute you're in 1974 looking for ghosts, but all you have to do is open your eyes and talk to whoever's standing there. To you, I haven't been born yet. And, to you, I've been dead a hundred billion years. [Clara looks at the ruined Earth of the distant future displayed on the TARDIS scanner] Is my body out there somewhere? In the ground?

Yes. I suppose it is.

But here we are, talking, so I am a ghost. To you, I'm a ghost. We're all ghosts to you. We must be nothing.

No. No. You're not that.

Then what are we? What can we possibly be?

You are the only mystery worth solving.