Gareth Roberts > Quotes

“William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You thieve my brains, consider me your toy, my doting doctor tells me I am not!'
Lilith: No! Words of power!
William Shakespeare: 'Foul Carrionite specters, cease your show, between the points... '
[he looks to The Doctor for help]
The Doctor: 761390!
William Shakespeare: '761390! Banished like a tinker's cuss, I say to thee... '
[he again looks to The Doctor]
The Doctor: Uh...
[he looks to Martha]
Martha Jones: Expelliarmus!
The Doctor: Expelliarmus!
William Shakespeare: 'Expelliarmus!'
The Doctor: Good old JK!”
― Gareth Roberts

“Lilith: Oh, but your heart grows cold. A north wind blows and carries down the distant... Rose?
The Doctor: Oooh, big mistake! Because that name keeps me fighting!”
― Gareth Roberts

“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

“This,’ whispered the Doctor to Romana, ‘is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.”
― Gareth Roberts

“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

“The more the merrier. Too many cooks spoil the broth of destruction.”
― Gareth Roberts, Doctor Who: Shada

“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

“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

“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

“Obviously it was meant to tell us nothing, which is exactly the opposite function of a book.”
― Gareth Roberts, Doctor Who: Shada

“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

“Rose, the moon is incredible. Everything down on Earth relies on it. Rats jump for it. Tides rush out from it. Humans kiss under it. Without it there'd be nothing down there worth the light. And that just happened by chance -trillions of odd against it- one bit of stardust meets another bit of dust.”
― Gareth Roberts, Doctor Who: I Am a Dalek

“I need you, Doctor, but Rose - she's just another human. Wasteful, aggressive, untidy..."

The Doctor bit his lip. "Harm one hair of her head and I'll destroy you.”
― Gareth Roberts, Doctor Who: Only Human

“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

“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

“Just as his eyelids were descending, he caught sight of something stuffed into the ancient washing machine in the corner. It was a long blue coat and it made him sit up again. "Rose. Something about Rose..."

"Rose is nice," put in Quilley.

"Yeah," said the Doctor. "I like Rose. I like Rose... Rose... yeah, but I like Rose..."

He shuddered as a series of images flashed through his mind - Rose smiling. Rose taking his hand. Rose in danger.

"Whoah, what was that? There was something else... Find Rose." A surge of glee possessed him. "Escape and find Rose! Come on!”
― Gareth Roberts, Doctor Who: Only Human