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“Because she deserved more than me. She deserved someone who could give her the whole universe.”
― Jacqueline Rayner, Doctor Who: The Stone Rose

“He took her by the hand and led her out of the control room and into a little side room. There, amid a lot of sculpting paraphernalia, was her statue. The statue from the museum. The statue of Fortuna. New and gleaming.

Rose gaped. 'But I never posed for this.'

'No need,' said the Doctor, patting it on the arm -- an arm which still had a hand attached.

'What d'you mean?'

'I mean,' he explained, 'that you won't have to pose for it. As Mickey said -' the Doctor smiled to himself - 'it was sculpted by someone who knew you pretty well.'

He ran a hand through his hair and looked as though he was expecting applause.

Rose walked round the statue. 'Is my bum really that--'

'Yes,' the Doctor interrupted testily. 'This statue is accurate in every detail. Bum. Arms. Legs. Nose. Broken fingernail on your right hand.'

* * *


Rose stood looking at the statue for a bit longer. 'It is perfect,' she said at last.

'I was inspired.'

They smiled at each other. All was right with the world again.”
― Jacqueline Rayner, Doctor Who: The Stone Rose

“Rose wasn't 'ordinary'. What was I supposed to do? Wrap her in cotton wool? Tell her 'Here, I could give you the universe, but I'm not going to in case you get hurt? There's all this stuff out there, all these planets, all these wonders, but I want you to stay at home and work in a shop?”
― Jacqueline Rayner, Doctor Who: The Stone Rose

“Ursus stepped forward. 'Watch your tongue when you speak to the goddess!' he snarled.
The Doctor frowned. 'I think that would make speaking rather difficult,' he said.He stuck his tongue out and crossed his eyes to look down on it. 'Therterly inghockigal.' he said.”
― Jacqueline Rayner, Doctor Who: The Stone Rose

“He saw the statue - she shrank back as he hurried forward. And then he realized it wasn't her. Rose was taken aback. She hadn't known - how could she know - what her disappearence had done to him. This Doctor had a look of such despair in his eyes that her heart almost stopped in pity. She wanted more than anything else to go to him, tell him that everything was going to be alright. But... what with possibly ripping time and space apart, that was probably a bad idea. ”
― Jacqueline Rayner, Doctor Who: The Stone Rose

“The Doctor gave a modest shrug. "Well, I must admit that I made heads turn wherever I go. It's a burden that I just have to live with.”
― Jacqueline Rayner, Doctor Who: The Stone Rose

“Aside from being terrifying, it was totally humiliating. Rose Tyler, Barbie doll.”
― Jacqueline Rayner, Doctor Who: The Stone Rose

“This is the goddess Fortuna. She brought luck - or took it away. But you'd put up with whatever she did. Because when she decided to favour you, it made everything worthwhile”
― Jacqueline Rayner, Doctor Who: The Stone Rose

“Elves, pixies, gnomes- the Moomins, Chorlton and the Wheelies, SpongeBob SquarePants- they all tried to invade you at some point.”
― Jacqueline Rayner, Doctor Who: The Stone Rose

“Do you know what it's like," he said, "to feel that you're in the wrong body?"
"Well actually..." the Doctor began, wiggling his own fingers in front of his face.”
― Jacqueline Rayner, Doctor Who: The Stone Rose

“There you go, being human again,' said the Doctor. He put an arm around Rose, and hugged her to him. 'It's not fair, is it, when we're forced into pitying someone we hate. Feels like the world's turned topsy-turvy. But it's all right. You're still allowed to hate them. As long as you don't gloat at their downfall, that's all.”
― Jacqueline Rayner, Doctor Who: Winner Takes All

“I hate guns," replied the Doctor. "Which isn't to say that a bit of fantasy violence can't be therapeutic.”
― Jacqueline Rayner, Doctor Who: Winner Takes All

“Time is, to put it in its most impressive and some might say poncy-sounding form, my domain. I can see things that once happened, even if they haven't happened any more. Well, if I concentrate. The new reality-the real reality- keeps asserting itself, even with me. But the other time line leaves echoes, ripples, if you look hard enough.”
― Jacqueline Rayner, Doctor Who: The Stone Rose

“For some people,being mean to others is the point of their lives.”
― Jacqueline Rayner, Doctor Who: Magic of the Angels

“A trapdoor had slammed open at the edge of the arena, followed by another and another. Slowly, reluctantly, animals were forced through the gaps. Lions, tigers, bears. "Oh my!" said the Doctor, as the trapdoors slammed shut again.”
― Jacqueline Rayner, Doctor Who: The Stone Rose

“What is it?"

The Doctor didn't answer straight away. Robert tried hard not to stare as he got up and began to sweep things on to the floor, crash, smash. Robert was terrified the Quevvils might hear the noise, terrified the Doctor might break something important; most of all, terrified of the Doctor.

"How dare they!" the Doctor yelled, thumping the wall with his fist. "How dare they make me do this to her! Rose is not a toy!"

"She'll understand," Robert ventured after a moment, scared of making things worse, but knowing he had to say something. "She'll know you had to do it, why you had to do it."

The Doctor didn't seem to hear him. His voice was calmer now, but icier; scarier. "You don't treat someone like that. You don't treat a person like that. And they're making me degrade her like that. We'll get out of this, won't dwell on it, won't ever mention it again. But, back of our minds, it'll always be there." He thumped the wall again, then, after a frozen second, sat back down and picked up the controller. "I'll just get on with augmenting my friend then.”
― Jacqueline Rayner, Doctor Who: Winner Takes All

“It was that depressing time in the early morning where the only people about were milkmen, police officers- and time travellers.”
― Jacqueline Rayner, Doctor Who: Winner Takes All

“I am the President, Doctor, and you are an escaped criminal! I could stop you leaving with a snap of my fingers!’ ‘No,’ said the Doctor, ‘you couldn’t.”
― Jacqueline Rayner, Doctor Who: Earthworld

“Do you know how many species will be made extinct by these games?' he demanded furiously. 'Good grief, what is it about you humans? You think you're the only thing on this planet that's worth anything, that you can ravage nature just to show your superiority. Can you even comprehend a fraction of what's being done here?' Then he calmed down just as quickly, became sorrowful instead of angry. 'No. you probably can't. And I expect you wouldn't care if you could.”
― Jacqueline Rayner

“you've got the fashion sense of a Cabbage Patch Kid”
― Jacqueline Rayner, Doctor Who: The Wonderful Doctor of Oz

“Who wants to do ordinary things like sleep, when there's a universe to explore? What would you rather do, catch forty winks, or nip off to have a look at the moons of Juipiter?"

"I don't know," she said, teasing. "Isn't it quite cold up there?"

"Somewhere warm then, then!" he said. "We could watch the building of the Great Pyramid, or investigate this rumour I heard about this mad scientist who tried to build asbestos robots to colonise the sun."

And all of Rose's tiredness fell away as he spoke. She looked out of the window as the sun rose upon another grey London day, and thought about the alternatives the Doctor was offering. And she realized that while she might truly be the mistress of her own destiny, sometimes there really wasn't much of a choice.

"Yeah, all right," she said.

So, arm in arm, they left the flat, and walked towards the future.”
― Jacqueline Rayner, Doctor Who: Winner Takes All

“Elvis doesn't share our gift of matrimonial telepathy, though. And he did have a plastic brain. He still looked clueless.”
― Jacqueline Rayner, Doctor Who: The Legends of River Song