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Doctor Who: Shada QUOTES

Doctor Who: Shada QUOTES

1 " At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - relief or despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking - 'wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant! "

― Gareth Roberts , Doctor Who: Shada

2 " The more the merrier. Too many cooks spoil the broth of destruction. "

― Gareth Roberts , Doctor Who: Shada

3 " To avoid detection, the Doctor had attached a device called Randomiser to his TARDIS, his plan being to outfox the Black Guardian by popping up randomly all over the place. Neither Romana nor K-9 had the heart to tell the Doctor that that was pretty much what he did anyway. "

― Gareth Roberts , Doctor Who: Shada

4 " Suddenly the Doctor heard the greatest sound in the universe, more delightful than the dawn chorus, more lovely than the laughter of children, more sweet than the mountain stream. It was the wheezing, groaning sound of the relative dimensional stabiliser of a Type 40 TARDIS in materialisation mode. "

― Gareth Roberts , Doctor Who: Shada

5 " Chris hurried after him. 'It's so hard to believe we just travelled hundreds of light years.'
'Why?' asked the Doctor.
'I always understood that you cannot travel faster than light,' said Chris.
'Says who?'
'Says Einstein,' said Chris.
'What?' The Doctor stopped and put an arm around Chris's shoulder. 'Do you understand Einstein?'
Chris wasn't sure where this was going. 'Yes.'
'What?' gasped the Doctor. 'And quantum theory?'
'Yes,' said Chris. He basked in the Doctor's astonishment, on firmer ground at last.
'What?' gasped the Doctor. 'And Planck?'
'Yes,' said Chris.
'What?' gasped the Doctor. 'And Newton?'
'Yes!' said Chris.
'What?' gasped the Doctor. 'And Schoenberg?'
Chris paused. Was it a trick question? He recalled reading about the crisis of tonality. He thought he'd caught most of it, so he answered proudly, 'Yes. Of course.'
The Doctor whistled, apparently impressed. Then he said, 'You've got an awful lot to unlearn, Bristol. "

― Gareth Roberts , Doctor Who: Shada

6 " The universe is full of wonderful things, amazing opportunities. And you have to grab them with both hands and hope they never and. "

― Gareth Roberts , Doctor Who: Shada

7 " Chris reflected that a horrific place like this, with all the odds so grotesquely stacked against him, was where the Doctor magnificently belonged. "

― Gareth Roberts , Doctor Who: Shada

8 " Obviously it was meant to tell us nothing, which is exactly the opposite function of a book. "

― Gareth Roberts , Doctor Who: Shada

9 " More than just the ship,’ said the Doctor. He indicated the burnt ends of the tangled fibres. ‘There was enough thermal energy generated by that thing to destroy an entire planet.’ ‘He was going to wipe out Cambridge?’ Chris was horror-struck. ‘All the colleges? The Backs, the railway station… the pubs?’ ‘Plus the entire planet,’ said the Doctor gravely. "

― Gareth Roberts , Doctor Who: Shada

10 " What book, Professor?’ demanded the Doctor. ‘An Earth classic, by one of the greatest writers in that planet’s history,’ said the Professor. ‘Terribly funny, terribly thoughtful, wish I could remember the name of it, something about thumbing a lift, and there were towels in it, I remember that, yes, let me think – oh yes, of course, it’s called The Hitch— "

― Gareth Roberts , Doctor Who: Shada