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121 " I flew round space and time, like a maniac. I smiled and laughed and whirled,and hoped no one would see through my disguise. I helped where I could, Ifought where it counted and I made peace happen wherever I walked. I savedlife after life, and I knew I was trying to make up for every one I’d taken. Morethan anything, I was trying not to count how many children had been onGallifrey that day. "
― Steven Moffat , Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
122 " Sometimes he missed the monochrome world of his first two incarnations. It had felt like a simpler, cleaner time; so many centuries had passed before he realised he’d just been colour blind. "
123 " Don't be Lasagne - The Doctor "
― Steven Moffat
124 " There isn't anything that you will ever do in your life that won't one day be described as over. That cannot tarnish the joy of it. You cannot damage the memory of your greatest days with the regret that they're over. That's the wrong way to think. "
125 " Madness is what genius looks like to a small mind "
126 " I said we’re not the same. Here’s why. All my life, every day, I’ve wished I was someone else. I’ve wanted to be Kate, or Sarah Jane Smith, or Amy Pond, or anyone really. But you’re a shape-shifter, you’ve been lots of other people—and you want to be me. I think that makes you a much better Petronella Osgood than I am. I think I’d like to be a better version. If "
127 " Serious students will know (and if you do not, it is my sadness to inform you) that one of the Petronellas died in the line of duty a few years later. No one has ever known which of them perished, and Petronella herselves is quite firm about never telling anyone. I say ‘herselves’ because another Earth resident Zygon took the fallen Petronella’s place, so that there could be two of them again. All that matters is this: Osgood lives—and so long as the fangirls stand guard on the gates of humanity, so will we. "
128 " You can only really tell how sad someone is when they smile. "
129 " We have to screen and interview all the Doctor’s known associates—we can’t have information about the Doctor and the TARDIS falling into the wrong hands. Public knowledge about him can have disastrous consequences.’ I pointed to the two movie posters on the wall, and saw her eyes widen. ‘Peter Cushing played the Doctor? The guy from Star Wars?’ ‘Oh, yes. Twice. We did try to suppress the films, but they kept showing up on bank holidays.’ ‘Has the Doctor seen them?’ ‘Seen them? He loves them. He loaned Peter Cushing a waistcoat for the second one, they were great friends. Though we only realised that when Cushing starting showing up in movies made long after his death. "
130 " Fear is wisdom in the face of danger. It is nothing to be ashamed of. "
131 " We all change when you think about it. We’re all different people all through our lives and that’s okay, that’s good you’ve got to keep moving so long as you remember all the people that you used to be. "
132 " The universe is big. It’s vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. "
133 " The problems of your past are your business. The problems of your future are my privilege. "
134 " Elizabeth was now staring at him, stony-eyed. ‘Old man, why do you treat your current danger as if it were an educational opportunity?’ ‘Because, ma’am, I have never encountered a danger that wasn’t. "
135 " There had been an ugly period when they discovered a VHS tape of the movie Daleks: Invasion Earth and had insisted on watching it. They nearly derailed the negotiations by shouting, cheering and joining in, and then had spent the next hour calling each other Dr Who and talking like Peter Cushing. "
136 " the Doctor’—the title he chose, rather than the name he was born with—is more of an idea in his head, than a statement of his identity. The Doctor is the man he aspires to be, not the man he believes he is. "
137 " We had no idea you were still in there!’‘You phoned me!’ screamed the Doctor, hoping Clara would manage to keep hold.‘You’ve listed this number as your mobile.’‘It’s the TARDIS—how much more mobile do you get? "