DOCTOR: Confusing, isn’t it? When you don’t know who the bad guys are.

DOCTOR: Sometimes, if you stare at a painting for too long and get too close to it, all you can see are the brushstrokes. The harder you stare, the more formless and meaningless it seems to become.

NYSSA: And that’s your analogy for the whole of the universe, is it? A painting you don’t want to look at too closely in case it doesn’t mean anything?

DOCTOR: I don’t know. Sometimes I think of it that way, yes.

DOCTOR: As for making a difference, I don’t think we really influenced anything at all.

DOCTOR: It’s all a matter of perspective, isn’t it?

GILBROOK: My great-grandfather was just a kid, working in the fields when it happened.

BRODLIK: When what happened?

GILBROOK: Fields. Can you imagine that? Huge areas of land where crops would grow. Crops that could feed dozens of people. And my great-granddad. He looked up into the sky. And so he told his son, and so he told my dad. He saw that Koteem ship explode. He saw it… He said it was like paint spilling across a table. It seemed that fast… He said.. He said it was almost beautiful.