Stories Audio Drama Gallifrey Spirit 1 image Back to Story Quotes Add Quote Link to Quote Favourite LEELA: I was so alone in the world of dreams when you left… The wildlands were dark and so quiet. I… I do not wish to be alone. ROMANA: There will be a place for you with me. For always. Whatever face I wear. — Spirit Link to Quote Favourite LEELA: You have heightened olfactory senses? ROMANA: Yes, I think so. Woah! They’re so strong! Each breath is like a blade in my breast! Clean, and sharp! LEELA: Do I always speak in such plaintive metaphor? ROMANA: It has a certain unpolished charm, does it not? — Spirit Link to Quote Favourite ROMANA: Leela. Are you saying you’re afraid of me? LEELA: You are also two people. The person I know, and the person you once were. Who is… so different. ROMANA: You’ve always known I was a Time Lord. Regeneration is a natural part of the progression of our lives. Completely without consequence. LEELA: One person cannot become many without consequence. — Spirit Link to Quote Favourite LEELA: I do not want him to find me. It is I who must find him. Am I so helpless? Yes. Here, in these stifling, sunless rooms of yours, perhaps I am. I have only one body. This one. I cannot change it. It will not wear your clothes, or walk your stilted pathways. I have only one voice inside me. This one. And my words can never be as clever as yours. I have only one mind, and it is steadfast, but small next to yours. I cannot grasp the games you play with people and their lives, and I do not wish to. ROMANA: They’re not games I choose to play. I’m trying to defend myself. Trying to protect my world! LEELA: Yes. It is your world, and not mine. Although I have lived here for many years, it has never been my home, and I am unhappy. — Spirit Link to Quote Favourite ROMANA: Who was it who said the world is funny to one who thinks, yet tragic to one who feels. — Romana II, Spirit Link to Quote Favourite ROMANA: I haven’t been so willfully irresponsible in decades! LEELA: Oh, thank you for letting in the fresh air! ROMANA: You’re a breath of it yourself in the Capitol. LEELA: Oh, Romana, nice words will not make me stay. This breath of air you say I bring blows thick dust up in clouds. It chokes me. ROMANA: Well, for now, let’s both make the most of being away from it all. Just relax. LEELA: You find your rest by lying down. I want to run out there, through the wildness! Give myself to it! — Spirit Link to Quote Favourite LEELA: Talk? You will soon tire of me talking. My words are too small for your big brain. ROMANA: You’re not stupid, Leela! And you’re not a whining ninny, either… So, I can only conclude from your recent behaviour that you’re experiencing a considerable amount of pain. LEELA: Do you not have a magic machine that can tell you exactly? ROMANA: Leela. I thought that coming here would be good for you. I’ve come to accept you as a valuable asset, and I– LEELA: Asset!? Is that what I am? Your asset!? ROMANA: Alright then… a friend. Someone I have come to trust. LEELA: Trust has no meaning on your world. ROMANA: Leela! So the holiday gets off to a flying start. — Spirit Link to Quote Favourite ROMANA: Six moons influencing the tides. Two of them orbit in a retrograde motion to the other four. LEELA: Retrograde...? ROMANA: Well, they move in the opposite direction. LEELA: They circle all around, like enemies eyeing each other. ROMANA: (Chuckles) You could say that. LEELA: My heart, then, has sympathies with the sea. Roused, and calm, and stirred up by these different bodies whirling around me, distant and removed, locked in wary conflict, but never touching. I can only look on, tugged about by their movements. ROMANA: You have a poetic wisdom, Leela. (Chuckles) I think I would describe the political machinations of the Capitol in rather coarser language. — Spirit