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All of Time and Space

My Favourite Quotes:

“Nothing’s sad until it’s over, and then everything is.”

— Twelfth Doctor, Hell Bent
The Twelfth Doctor playing Clara's theme on the guitar in the diner

“Never be cruel. Never be cowardly. Hate is always foolish. Love is always wise. Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind.”

— Twelfth Doctor, Twice Upon a Time
The Twelfth Doctor, in the TARDIS

“Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand is where I fall.”

— Twelfth Doctor, The Doctor Falls

“Do you know what thinking is? It’s just a fancy word for changing your mind.”

— Twelfth Doctor, The Zygon Inversion
The 12th Doctor, in the Black Archive, speaking to Zygon Clara

“History sometimes gives us a terrible shock, and that is because we don’t quite fully understand. Why should we? After all, we’re too small to realize its final pattern. Therefore don’t try and judge it from where you stand.”

— First Doctor, The Massacre

“The Doctor? No, I don't think so! No, dear me, no! You may be a Doctor, but I am the Doctor. The original, you might say!”

— First Doctor, The Doctor Falls

“As you come into this world, something else is also born. You begin your life, and it begins a journey towards you. It moves slowly, but it never stops. Wherever you go, whatever path you take, it will follow. Never faster, never slower, always coming. You will run. It will walk. You will rest. It will not. One day, you will linger in the same place too long. You will sit too still or sleep too deep, and when, too late, you rise to go, you will notice a second shadow next to yours. Your life will then be over.”

— Twelfth Doctor, Heaven Sent
The teleporter in Heaven Sent

“Winning? Is that what you think it's about? I'm not trying to win. I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone, or because I hate someone, or because, because I want to blame someone. It's not because it's fun and God knows it's not because it's easy. It's not even because it works, because it hardly ever does. I do what I do, because it's right! Because it's decent! And above all, it's kind. It's just that. Just kind. If I run away today, good people will die. If I stand and fight, some of them might live. Maybe not many, maybe not for long. Hey, you know, maybe there's no point in any of this at all, but it's the best I can do, so I'm going to do it. And I will stand here doing it till it kills me. You're going to die too, some day. How will that be? Have you thought about it? What would you die for? Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand, is where I fall. Stand with me. These people are terrified. Maybe we can help, a little. Why not, just at the end, just be kind?”

— Twelfth Doctor, The Doctor Falls
The Twelfth Doctor, talking to The Saxon Master and Missy. He is angry and pointing

“I've finally run out of corridor. There's a life summed up.”

— Twelfth Doctor, Heaven Sent
The 12th Doctor, up against a door

(Talking about Missy)

BILL: She's a murderer.

DOCTOR: Enjoying your bacon sandwich?

BILL: Why?

DOCTOR: Because it had a mummy and a daddy. Go tell a pig about your moral high ground.

World Enough and Time

“People plus technology minus humanity. The internet, cyberspace, Cybermen. Always read the comments, because one day they'll be an army.”

— Twelfth Doctor, The Doctor Falls

DOCTOR: You're doing it again.

CLARA: Doing what?

DOCTOR: The smile.

CLARA: Yeah, I'm smiling.

DOCTOR: It's the sad smile. It's a smile but you're sad. It's confusing. It's like two emotions at once. It's like you're malfunctioning.

Mummy on the Orient Express

“I'm so pleased to finally see you. I'm the Doctor and I will be your victim this evening. Are you my mummy?”

— Twelfth Doctor, Mummy on the Orient Express

“Sometimes the only choices you have are bad ones. But you still have to choose.”

— Twelfth Doctor, Mummy on the Orient Express
The 12th Doctor

“Question. Why is there no such thing as perfect hiding? Answer. How would you know? Logically, if evolution were to perfect a creature whose primary skill were to hide from view, how could you know it existed?”

— Twelfth Doctor, Listen

“If you think because she is dead I am weak, then you understand very little. If you were any part of killing her, and you're not afraid, then you understand nothing at all. So, for your own sake, understand this. I am the Doctor. I'm coming to find you, and I will never, ever stop.”

— Twelfth Doctor, Heaven Sent
The 12th Doctor, very angry.

RIVER: You don't look much like your pictures.

DOCTOR: Well, that's an ongoing problem for me.

The Husbands of River Song
River Song, her face covered, talking to The Doctor. Nardole is in the background.

DOCTOR: It's my back.

RIVER: Your back?

DOCTOR: Yeah, my back's playing up. It simply refuses to carry the weight of an entirely pointless stratum of society who contribute nothing of worth to the world and crush the hopes and dreams of working people.

The Husbands of River Song
The Twelfth Doctor, crossing his arms

DOCTOR: My entire understanding of physical space has been transformed! Three-dimensional Euclidean geometry has been torn up, thrown in the air and snogged to death! My grasp of the universal constants of physical reality has been changed forever!

DOCTOR: Sorry. I've always wanted to see that done properly.

The Husbands of River Song
Vertical shot looking down on the Doctor in the TARDIS as he gesticulates

RIVER: Does sarcasm help?

DOCTOR: Wouldn't it be a great universe if it did?

The Husbands of River Song
The Doctor in the TARDIS, holding the King's head

DOCTOR: Times end, River, because they have to. Because there's no such thing as happy ever after. It's just a lie we tell ourselves because the truth is so hard.

RIVER: No, Doctor, you're wrong. Happy ever after doesn't mean forever. It just means time. A little time. But that's not the sort of thing you could ever understand, is it?

The Husbands of River Song
The Doctor and River Song

RIVER: So, assuming tonight is all we have left.

DOCTOR: I didn't say that.

RIVER: How long is a night on Darillium?

DOCTOR: Twenty four years.

RIVER: I hate you.

DOCTOR: No, you don't.

The Husbands of River Song
The Doctor and River, looking into each others eyes

“There's a horror movie called Alien? That's really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.”

— Twelfth Doctor, Last Christmas

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

— Twelfth Doctor, The Pilot

MISSY: Apparently, you think you're going to die tomorrow.

DOCTOR: Well, I've got some good news about that.

MISSY: Oh, yeah?

DOCTOR: It's still today!

The Magician’s Apprentice

DOCTOR: The human race, you're obsessed. You all need to get a hobby.

CLARA: I've got a hobby, thanks. It's you, by the way.

The Girl Who Died

KRAIL: You must come and live with us.

POLLY: But we cannot live with you. You're, you're different. You've got no feelings.

KRAIL: Feelings? I do not understand that word.

DOCTOR: Emotions. Love, pride, hate, fear. Have you no emotions, sir?

KRAIL: Come to Mondas and you will have no need of emotions. You will become like us.

POLLY: Like you?

KRAIL: We have freedom from disease, protection against heat and cold, true mastery. Do you prefer to die in misery?

The Tenth Planet

“Never eat pears. They're too squishy and they always make your chin wet. That one's quite important. Write it down.”

— Twelfth Doctor, Hell Bent