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Doctor Who S4 • Episode 8

Silence in the Library

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Quotes

DOCTOR: I love biographies.

DONNA: Yeah, very you. Always a death at the end.

DOCTOR: You need a good death. Without death, there'd only be comedies. Dying gives us size.

Silence in the Library

“I never land on Sundays. Sundays are boring.”

— Tenth Doctor, Silence in the Library

“Oh, I'm thick! Look at me, I'm old and thick. Head's too full of stuff. I need a bigger head.”

— Tenth Doctor, Silence in the Library

RIVER: Got a problem with archaeologists?

DOCTOR: I'm a time traveller. I point and laugh at archaeologists.

RIVER: Ah. Professor River Song, archaeologist.

Silence in the Library

“Almost every species in the universe has an irrational fear of the dark. But they're wrong, because it's not irrational. It's Vashta Nerada.”

— Vashta Nerada, Silence in the Library

RIVER: Sorry, you're not allowed to see inside the book. It's against the rules.

DOCTOR: What rules?

RIVER: Your rules.

Silence in the Library

“He hasn't met me yet. I sent him a message, but it went wrong. It arrived too early. This is the Doctor in the days before he knew me. And he looks at me, he looks right through me and it shouldn't kill me, but it does.”

— River Song, Silence in the Library

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