""When in doubt, shoot the wizard.""
— Tamora Pierce

"When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it'll never end. But however hard you try you can't run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever for one moment, accepts it. Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. (In the library, the Doctor walks back to the TARDIS. He stops, looking at the doors. Then he raises his hand, and stands there poised like that for a long moment. Finally he snaps his fingers. The doors open. He smiles slowly and walks in, joining Donna. Then he snaps his fingers again, and the doors close. River's voice continues over this.) Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair, and the Doctor comes to call... everybody lives."
— Steven Moffat

"An injury to one is an injury to all."
— Doctor Who

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"You're a doctor, but I'm the Doctor. The definite article."


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— ––The 10th Doctor Who

"We pick up the pieces, Donna. Some of them are broken."
— Dan Abnett (Doctor Who: The Forever Trap)

"Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art."
— Louisa May Alcott (A Long Fatal Love Chase)

"He saves planets, rescues civilizations, defeats terrible creatures ... and runs a lot. Seriously, there is an outrageous amount of running involved. - Donna Noble"
— Stephen Greenhorne

"My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you."
— Louisa May Alcott (A Long Fatal Love Chase)

" I travelled across the world. From the ruins of New York, to the fusion mills of China, right across the radiation pits of Europe. And everywhere I went I saw people just like you, living as slaves! But if Martha Jones became a legend then that's wrong, because my name isn't important. There's someone else. The man who sent me out there, the man who told me to walk the Earth. And his name is The Doctor. He has saved your lives so many times and you never even knew he was there. He never stops. He never stays. He never asks to be thanked. But I've seen him, I know him... I love him... And I know what he can do. - Martha Jones
"
— Russell T. Davies

"Dalek: I will talk to the Doctor.
The Doctor: Oh will you? That's nice. Hello!
Dalek: The Dalek strategem nears completion. The fleet is almost ready. You will not intervene.
The Doctor: Oh really? Why's that, then?
Dalek: We have your associate. You will obey or she will be exterminated.
The Doctor: No.
Dalek: Explain yourself.
The Doctor: I said, "No."
Dalek: What is the meaning of this negative?
The Doctor: It means, "No."
Dalek: But she will be destroyed!
The Doctor: No! 'Cause this is what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna rescue her. I'm gonna save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek fleet, and then I'm gonna save the Earth. And then—just to finish off—I'm gonna wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky!
Dalek: But you have no weapons, no defenses, no plan.
The Doctor: Yeah! And doesn't that scare you to death? Rose?
Rose: Yes, Doctor?
The Doctor: I'm coming to get you.
"
— Russell T. Davies

"Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello"
— Tamora Pierce (Page)

"There was a war. A Time War. The Last Great Time War. My people fought a race called the Daleks, for the sake of all creation. And they lost. We lost. Everyone lost. They're all gone now. My family. My friends. Even that sky. Oh, you should have seen it! That old planet.... The second sun would rise in the south, and the mountains would shine. The leaves on the trees were silver, when they caught the light, every morning it looked like a forest on fire. When the autumn came, a brilliant glow though the branches..."
— The Doctor

""There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart."
-George to Alanna"
— Tamora Pierce (The Woman Who Rides Like a Man)

"Go to your room! Go to your room! I am very, very cross with you! GO TO YOUR ROOM! . . .
I am really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words!"
— Dr. Who from "The Doctor Dances"

""Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it"
George Cooper"
— Tamora Pierce (In the Hand of the Goddess)

"They always forget the last part of that saying: curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back" its something to that effect anyway."
— Tamora Pierce

"I can feel it. The turning of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour and the entire planet is hurting around the sun at sixty-seven thousand miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me. Clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go...that's who I am."
— Christopher Eccleston-Doctor who

"So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep."
— Tamora Pierce (In the Hand of the Goddess)

"The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.
"
— Gloria Steinem

"When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks."
— Tamora Pierce

"One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!"
— Gloria Steinem

"Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people."
— Tamora Pierce (Melting Stones)

"Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent."
— Neil Gaiman

"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. "
— Roseanne Barr

"Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'."
— Tamora Pierce

""A girl nearby muttered,"If that's a lady, I'm a cat."
Reaching out, Sandry lifted the pitcher of milk from the table. Cradling it in both hands, she walked over to the mutterer.
"I am Sandrilene fa Toren, daughter of Count Mattin fer Toren and his countess, Amiliane fa Landreg. I am the great-niece of his grace, Duke Vedris of this realm of Emelan, and cousin of her Imperial Highness, Empress Berenene of the Namorn Empire. You are Esmelle ei Pragin, daughter of Baron Witten en Pragin and his lady Colledia of House Wheelwright, a merchant house. If I tell you my friend is a lady, then you"- carefully she poured milk into Esmelle's plate-"you had best start lapping, kitty."
She set the pitcher down and returned to her chair. " "
— Tamora Pierce (Sandry's Book)

"Women are cursed, and men are the proof."
— Roseanne Barr

""You lot, you spend all your time thinking about dying, like you're gonna get killed by eggs, or beef, or global warming, or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible. Like maybe you survive.""
— Ninth Doctor Who

"You want weapons? We're in a library! Books, best weapons in the world. This room is the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself."
— The Tenth Doctor

"One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel."
— Doctor Who :p

"I hate men who are afraid of women's strength."
— Anaïs Nin

"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them."
— Margaret Atwood

"The world has taunted women into marrying. "
— Nelly McClung

"I love being single. It's almost like being rich."
— Sue Grafton

"You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation."
— Brigham Young

"A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power."
— George Meredith (Diana of the Crossways)

"Never laugh at live dragons"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings."
— Cheris Kramarae

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
— Joseph Conrad

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"I cannot live without books."
— Thomas Jefferson

"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C.S. Lewis

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"Marriage is for noblewomen with nothing else to do."
— Tamora Pierce (Trickster's Choice)

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

"Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary!"
— Tamora Pierce (Lady Knight)

"Military folk. The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick."
— Tamora Pierce

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

"'Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?' Harry interrupted again.

'So he can sneak up on people,' said Ron. 'Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking...'"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)