Quotes

“As my mum told me once - don't put anything off until tomorrow... Except giving up.”

“Merry Christmas, Davina McCall.”

“Oh! Pssh! They are not time travellers. Excuse me. Time travellers are great. Like the best. Like, wow. This lot just bimble.”

“Intelligent gloves. One each. Should work. Put it on. Cos I thought to myself, "What's the problem with hanging on?" It's all the friction and the weight and the burn, so I got rid of that. The glove's a kind of super-kinetic transfer of mass. Ah, that's better. The glove takes all my weight. All the weight is in the glove. So nothing burns. Nothing pulls. Nothing hurts. Ta-da!”

“He can eat me. He makes me swoon.”

“Can't get a cup of tea round here for love nor money.”

“We three queens of the sky up here in the attic.”

“Okay. Name - the Doctor. Occupation - not a doctor. Current status - just passing by. Employer - myself. Address - that blue box over there. Now, if you don't mind, I just got snowmanned, and I would like to go home.”

“I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Just er... What I mean is... they phoned. From the TV show. When you were out this morning. But they didn't find anything. Just... No mum. No dad. No brothers or sisters. No cousins. Just... just... nothing.”

“We've got a baby, we can feast. We can dine three days at least. Baby blood and baby bones. Baby butter for the baby scones.”

DOCTOR: You have got the biggest family in the world.

RUBY: I have. What about you?

DOCTOR: Er, I've got no one.

DOCTOR: I'd better go. Merry Christmas.

FLOOD: Who are you, anyway?

DOCTOR: No one. Just passing by.

FLOOD: Well, you take care.

RUBY: Wait, how did you do that?

DOCTOR: I spent a long, hot summer with Harry Houdini.

DOCTOR: What the hell are you doing?!

RUBY: I'm... just... There's...

DOCTOR: But what did you do that for? Who sees a ladder and just pops on? A ladder in the sky and you thought, "Yeah, I'll give that a go, babes"?

RUBY: They've got the baby!

“I've given up on that cuppa and opted for a life of abstinence.”

DOCTOR: I'm adopted.

RUBY: Are you?

DOCTOR: Yeah, yeah. I, er... I only found out recently.

“Bad luck. Ever since that day, it's never stopped. I've been hit, I've been thrown, I've been bumped. I fell off a boat on dry land. I've been in accidents, collisions. I've even been trampled by a moose! And I can't help thinking it all comes back to when I met you.”

FLOOD: Busy man, sweetheart. You and your box of tricks. You look like you've lost a pound and found a sixpence. What's wrong?

DOCTOR: Just wondering. Maybe I'm the bad luck.

RUBY: He went back. He said he went back. What did he mean, he went back? When was Houdini?

CARLA: What?

RUBY: When was Houdini? Houdini was, like, 1900s, 1920? How could he...? And then he spoke about time travellers and then he...

“Oh, Merry Christmas, Abdul. Stop making such a fuss. Never seen a TARDIS before?”

“Once upon a time, late on Christmas Eve, a stranger came to the church on Ruby Road. She carried in her arms the most precious gift of all. A newborn child. A baby girl. Just before midnight, she left her daughter on the steps of the church. The child was taken in, and they named her Ruby, after the place where she was found. As for the mother, she was never seen again. No one ever knew her name, until that night a time traveller came to call. A traveller known as the Doctor.”

“This is a brand new science for me, and I love it. The language of luck. Cos what is a coincidence but a form of accident? Two things bumping together unexpectedly. Like you and me.”

“Health and safety. Gin and tonic division.”

DOCTOR: It's not magic. It's a language. It's a different form of physics.

RUBY: Yes. Like magic.

RUBY: Who are you?

DOCTOR: I'm the Doctor.

LUKE: It’s just like old times, isn’t it? The three of us, in the attic of Bannerman Road.

CLYDE: Except there’s one thing missing.

LUKE: Mum. Sarah-Jane.

RANI: She’s still with us though, in spirit. I can still hear her voice sometimes, you know. “You go girl. Take on the world. Get to the truth. Don’t let anyone stand in your way”.

CLYDE: Rani takes on the world. I’ll tell you what- I don’t fancy the world’s chances much.

“Years ago, when we lost Sarah-Jane, it felt like the story was over. And it was. But there are always other stories to be told. There are always more wonders to see, more friendships to make, and more injustices to be fought. Like Sarah-Jane always said.. Life on Earth is an adventure too. And it’s an adventure that never ends.”

HAYDEN: It is a necessary evil.

DOCTOR: Oh I've met evils you wouldn't believe, gods and devils, warewolves and vampires, every monster every child's ever imagined creeping out from under the bed and you know what? They're all real. But a necessary evil - that's the only one that's a fiction.

“I know what it's like to lose someone! The grief? Oh, that comes easy. The hard part is realising you can't change the past!”

“The funny thing is, I fought all those battles for all those years, and now I know what for. This. I've never been so happy in my life.”