DOCTOR: You always were a terrible judge of character. Look at me!

BERNICE: Happily.

DOCTOR: Have you had a good life?

BERNICE: All things considered.

DOCTOR: Quite. And you’ve just saved the universe again.

BERNICE: I have, haven’t I? Something to tell the cats when I get home.

DOCTOR: Cats, eh? Plural?

BERNICE: Plural.

DOCTOR: How many? Not too many?

BERNICE: No such thing. Oh, you’re going to love them. Come on.

DOCTOR: Back home?

BERNICE: And beyond.

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.

TENTH DOCTOR: What? What?

SIXTH DOCTOR: What are you afraid will happen if you pause for breath?

TENTH DOCTOR: That there won't be another.

DOCTOR: The mediator between the head and the hands must be the heart. If only.

VEEGA: Be careful, Leela.

LEELA: I shall.

VEEGA: You’ve been so good to us over the years.

LEELA: And you have been good to me. I will see you when we return.

VEEGA: Goodbye, Leela.

DOCTOR: Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand is where I fall.

DOCTOR: Time And Relative Dimension In Space. TARDIS for short. You're safe in here. You're safe in here and you always will be.

IRIS WILDTHYME: Stories, hidden inside stories! Ooh, I love all that. Makes me feel right at home.

LEELA: She is quicksilver. I prefer steel.

DOCTOR: Do you know Puff the Magic Dragon?

BERNICE: We went out a few times. He was very immature.

DOCTOR: Do you know the bit where Jackie Paper leaves him? Leaves him all alone?

BERNICE: I really don’t want to hear this.

DOCTOR: The dragon can’t be brave without the little boy. He doesn’t have anything to be brave for. He might as well go, might as well drift off into myth, and just be something in old stories.

BERNICE: But what would happen then? There are other monsters, other terrible things out there beside the Hoothi.

DOCTOR: Many of them. Yes.

BERNICE: Well, they must be fought. Because—and this is important. You can’t just be alone. That’s a childish thing to be. You can’t just isolate yourself from everything, no matter what terrible things have happened. You have to help other people.

DOCTOR: That’s what Jackie Paper would have said.

BERNICE: Oh. Oh, I see.

DOCTOR: What do you think?

NOBODY NO-ONE: I’m going to kill everything! Everything that crawls, grows, wiggles and swims in all of reality. Bang! The whole lot! Finished! Kaput! Finito-complete-o! Gone! How’s that for a plan?

DOCTOR: Lucie, there's a lot of darkness out there. Some of it where Orbis used to be. But you know something? We wouldn't notice any of it if it weren't for all those little pinpricks of light; planets and stars. And that's where I go whenever I feel sad. The next bit of light in the darkness. Keep on moving. Never look back. Well, hardly ever.

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.

PROLE: I love the State. I venerate the Regime. I love the State. I venerate the Regime. I love the State. I venerate the Regime. Why are you doing this to me?

THE VOICE: This is the voice of Light City. Welcome to your new work day. Today is High Productivity Day. Your state loves you. Happiness through acceptance.

CHARLEY: Come on. Take my hand.

DOCTOR: But we can see now. We don’t need to hold on to each other.

CHARLEY: I know. Take my hand anyway.

MICKEY: The audio medium. It can be so deceptive…

DOCTOR: Love. Huh! Wrote a treatise on the chromosomal origins of love once, when I was a small boy. Proved categorically which gene began it, which enzymes carried it, which electrochemical receptors translated it… Took all the fun out of it. Got a rubbish grade, too. My tutor told me I’d missed the point.

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.

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: We need to end the story.

EVELYN: Why? Stories don't end in real life. Sally was right. There's no happy ever after. There's happy, and then there's the day after, which might be happy, and then the day after, which might be happy, but keep on going far enough and you'll get to a day which isn't. There's never a final end.

SALLY: Oh, there is.

DOCTOR: No, Sally. That's the wonderful thing about life. You can't rule a neat line under it. But individual stories can end—and then you move on to the next one. It might be a better story or a worse one. It might be a sequel to something you've done before. The important thing is, that they're your stories. And no one can take that away from you.

DOCTOR: There are other sentient words out there, not all of them as belligerent as Ish. I’ve met a few myself. The Adjective of Noun! The Insouciant Maladictaballoons! And then there was the mysterious simile known only… as.

DOCTOR: Break, damn you! Break! You've never had a spanner like this thrown in you! Chew on me till your teeth crack. Grind me up till your gears lock. I'm the nail in your tyre, the potato jammed in your exhaust pipe, the treacle poured in your petrol tank. I'm the banana peel beneath your foot, the joker that ruins your straight flush, the coin that always comes up heads and the gun you didn't know was loaded. I am the Doctor!