Stories Book Virgin New Adventures White Darkness 1 image Back to Story Quotes Add Quote Link to Quote Favourite PETION: Ace, perhaps it would be better if I asked the questions. I admit you did well against those guards, but – ACE: I’m in a bad mood, Petion, so if you’re about to say anything like “But you’re only a woman,” I’ll shoot you too. — White Darkness Link to Quote Favourite DOCTOR: General Etienne’s going to murder a couple of hundred people any day now. ACE + BENNY: What? DOCTOR: Political prisoners he’ll have executed. ACE: Is this another of your mystical observations? DOCTOR: A simple matter of history, but one which occurred in such an out of the way corner of your planet that people took no notice. ACE: I’m taking notice. DOCTOR: No! This is a matter of recorded history: it has happened; it will happen; it must happen. None of us can stop it, and we must not even try. — White Darkness Link to Quote Favourite DOCTOR PHILLIPS: You got your degree in Edinburgh, I take it? DOCTOR: Glasgow actually. Why did you ask if it was Edinburgh? DOCTOR PHILLIPS: Your accent, of course. Where else would a Scotsman get the best medical teaching? DOCTOR: Ah, of course. Actually I’m not Scots, I’m from Gallifrey originally. DOCTOR PHILLIPS: Gallifrey? Oh, Ireland then. DOCTOR: No! If I had a grotzit for every time an Earthman thought that… — White Darkness Link to Quote Favourite FROEBE: I thought my guards had killed you. ACE: Perhaps this is my second life. — White Darkness Link to Quote Favourite DUBOIS: What is that girl doing? DOCTOR: Ending Mait’s reprehensible ways, with any luck. DUBOIS: She knows that much of the ways of vodoun? DOCTOR: No, she knows the ways of ka‐boom would be a more accurate description. — White Darkness