Sarah Jane Smith quotes from The Sarah Jane Adventures

Rani

We could go through there, into another time. Might never get the chance again.

Clyde

Can't we just have a look? Five minutes?

Sarah Jane

No! I'm sorry Clyde, but it's too dangerous. You've seen it in the movies - you go back, you change one tiny thing, and there's terrible consequences.

Rani

But you've travelled through time in the TARDIS.

Sarah Jane

With the Doctor, who knew what he was doing... most of the time.

Sarah Jane

We lived in a village called Foxgrove – that's where I was born. One afternoon, in August 1951, they got in their car, drove off, and they never came back.

Luke

There was an accident?

Sarah Jane

A tractor had broken down in the lane. They went straight into it.

Luke

You got out ok.

Sarah Jane

I wasn't with them. They left me behind – in my pram, at the side of the road, alone.

Luke

They must have had a reason.

Sarah Jane

To leave a three-month-old baby on its own?

Luke

So, your Aunt Lavinia brought you up.

Sarah Jane

Dad's sister, the family genius. She did the best she could, but she was always so busy, never in one place long enough to lick a stamp. She always said my mum and dad were the best parents in the world. But I couldn't help thinking – was she covering up for them? Because that day they just upped and left their baby alone. Left me behind.

Luke

Where'd you get the clothes?

Sarah Jane

Back of my wardrobe. Simple, classic, they'll do the job.

Luke

You used to wear that?! Seriously?!

Sarah Jane

Listen kid, the fifties came back in the seventies, I remember when this was quite the thing!

Sarah Jane

Luke, I have saved the lives of so many people, people I didn't even know, I don't know – miners on Peladon, all the people drinking BubbleShock, without a second thought, but this is my mum and dad!

Luke

You know you're not meant to!

Sarah Jane

Why? Why can't I? Why shouldn't I save them too?

Luke

What about the way you were brought up? If you changed it, then what if you never meet the Doctor? What if you never meet me?

Sarah Jane

I only want to look through the fissure, see what my life becomes if they survive. If there's anything wrong, we come back and set it right again!

Luke

Unless this is the trap.

Sarah Jane

Why do we have to think this is something terrible? What if this is a good thing? All these years I've been putting other people first – there has to be something at the end of it, doesn't there? Something for me? What if this is it? My reward!

Sarah Jane

It's all my fault!

Luke

All we have to do to change things back is repair the car.

Sarah Jane

And then what? I order my mother and father inside, I send them off to their deaths?

Luke

It's the only way.

Sarah Jane

I can't do it! If it was me, Luke, could you? I won't kill them! There must be another way, there's always another way!

If we get in the car and drive away now, then that's the end of that thing under the arch. I know I'm right.

Sarah Jane

No, you musn't! Don't go!

We've got to. But not Sarah Jane, not our baby. Take her. Look after her.

Luke

This is why they left that day. They didn't abandon you Mum, they saved you!

One thing though, it's important. Sarah Jane, our baby. Is she safe? Does she have a good life?

Sarah Jane

Yes! So many incredible things, things you wouldn't believe... don't go!

We've got to though, havn't we?

Like he worked any of it out! I said, didn't I? I don't understand it, but sometimes the heart knows things the mind can't explain.

Sarah Jane

[sobbing] Oh Mum... Dad...

Come here, come here. [he pulls Sarah Jane and Barbara into his arms]

Look at you, older than us!

And you came all that way to see us!

Sarah Jane

I thought you'd left me behind... I never knew you, I never had the chance, it was so unfair!

Who said life was fair, eh?

You... have denied me... my hunger!

Sarah Jane

I have done nothing! That was my Mum and Dad, saving the world! Something us Smiths just can't help doing!

But you couldn't do it, I knew you could never do it!

Sarah Jane

You were right, I couldn't send them off, but you didn't count on one thing - they were brilliant! They worked it out by themselves! My Mum and Dad defeated you!

Clyde

I'll be off home then. Huh, today I've been to an alternative timeline and now I'm saying "I'll be off home then".

Sarah Jane

That's the life we lead. Sometimes it brings you such joy and sometimes it brings you the worst things in the world.

Sarah Jane

That's all I ever had of them. But life goes on... it has to... Oh Luke, they were my Mum and Dad... [pulls Luke into a hug and sobs, smiling] ...and they were wonderful!

Luke

It's made me realise - I'm so lucky, because I've got my Mum. I've got you!

Clyde Langer

13 Bannerman Road is Sarah Jane Smith lives. And it's home to things way beyond your imagination. There's an extra-terrestrrial super computer in the wall, a genetically engineered boy genius in the attic. A schoolgirl investigator across the road. And a whole universe of adventure right here on the doorstep.

Sarah Jane

-Ready

Clyde Langer

-Always

Sarah Jane

Blackhole, easy.

Sarah Jane

Mr Smith, I need you.

Mr Smith

Yes, Sarah Jane.

Sarah Jane

Well, actually, for once, it's not you I need, it's K-9.

Mr Smith

[scoffs] Your robot dog?

Sarah Jane

That's the one, patch me through Mr Smith.

Mr Smith

Boosting telephone signal, connecting now.

Greetings Mistress!

Sarah Jane

K-9? Can you hear me?

Affirmative, Mistress!

Sarah Jane

K-9, you're coming home, for good this time...! K-9, I'm in a spaceship under a beach on the south coast. The spaceship needs a blackhole, reckon you can help?

Affirmative Mistress. Spaceship? Can you read me...? I am currently generating a shield around the blackhole.

If you send me your coordinates, I can absorb the energy.

Sending coordinates now! My Mission is completed.

Greetings, Mr Smith.

Mr Smith

It's good to see you, K-9... will you be staying here now?

Affirmative!

Mr Smith

[sarcastically] Oh, good.

Sarah Jane

What are you all doing here!

Clyde

We have a test coming up-

Rani

And Luke's helping us revise.

Sarah Jane

Why is Mr Smith still on?

Mr Smith

Sarah Jane's car is now outside the house.

Clyde

Big Mouth! You did that on purpose.

Sarah Jane

K-9 What's going on here?

I have been told to withhold information.

Sarah Jane

What exactly was that information?

I was told by Mistress Rani to not tell you that you were being followed.

Rani

The gob on you!

Sarah Jane

Is this the last time I'm ever going to see you?

[Brief pause] I don't know. I hope not.

Sarah Jane

[Smiling] Goodbye, Doctor, until the next time.

Don't forget me, Sarah Jane.

Sarah Jane

No-one's ever going to forget you.

Clyde

You were right. He is amazing!

Sarah Jane

Who is that woman?

Mr. Smith

Phyllis Trupp, personal assistant to the gallery's curator. Her most detalied personal profile can be found on peapod-soulmates.com, where she lists her interests as salsa dancing. She says she's "open minded and willing to try-"

Sarah Jane

Thank you Mr Smith, that will do.

Clyde

Ta-da. Shepherd's pie. I made that.

Shepherds are a delicacy on Earth?

Clyde

Yeah, but... you couldn't eat a whole one.

Sarah Jane

It's just the name of the dish.

[gobbles the pie noisily] Mmm! More delicious than the land prawns of Clom!

Clyde

Might apply for MasterChef after all...