Paul Magrs > Quotes

“The Doctor: I just don’t like nastiness, and people getting away with it.
Churchwell: That sounds a rather, if you forgive me, innocent view.
The Doctor: That’s as may be, but I’m sticking to it.”
― Paul Magrs, Doctor Who: The Stones of Venice

“You're crackers.”

“Marvelous isn't it? I find it's the only way to be.”
― Paul Magrs, Doctor Who: Hornets' Nest, Part 1 - The Stuff of Nightmares

“I do think there’s always a way to put things right. If I didn’t believe that I wouldn’t get out of bed in the morning, I wouldn’t eat breakfast; I wouldn’t leave the TARDIS ever. I would never have left home. There is always something we can do.”
― Paul Magrs, Doctor Who: The Stones of Venice

“Im being haunted by midgets. Heavy, determined, club wieldind midgets”
― Paul Magrs

“That was the nature of presents. You kept them in the giver's stead. They were a small part of that person to keep.”
― Paul Magrs, Exchange

“It was a weird mélange of alien architectures, as if these were buildings snatched at random from all times and places and reassembled in haste to line the bus's route in sinister fashion.”
― Paul Magrs, Doctor Who: The Blue Angel

“Nonsense,' said the Doctor, who was an inveterate underliner, a scribbler in margins, a very unpassive reader. Some of his oldest, most precious volumes in the TARDIS library were swamped by his commentaries from successive readings over the years. All of the Doctors had added their contributions - picking fights with the original author, then with each other as their various, hotly held opinions clashed and altered. To the Doctor, his own books were the place his previous selves met in a busy, textual polyphony. All his books were dense palimpsests of gripes.”
― Paul Magrs, Doctor Who: The Scarlet Empress

“Great Detective’s Retired Landlady Does Battle with Sea Monsters with Bare Hands While Surviving Worst Atlantic Disaster Since the Titanic.”
― Paul Magrs, Mrs Danby and Company

“pettifogging”
― Paul Magrs, Mrs Danby and Company

“She has a most kindly visage, and a well-upholstered body that is pleasingly puddingy”
― Paul Magrs, Mrs Danby and Company