Stephen Cole > Quotes

“Say 'Synchronize watches', Motti." Con batted her eyelids. "You know I love it when you say 'Synchronize watches'." Motti glowered at Con, put on a bad falsetto French accent: "Would everyone kindly confirm their watch is telling the same time as their neighbour's watch, yes?”
― Stephen Cole, Thieves Like Us

“You need to cool it some, geek." said Motti. "Why not go to the fridge, open the door, and stand there for a minute? Then grab a beer from inside and bring it to me." Jonah smiled despite himself. "Good of you to think of my welfare like that.”
― Stephen Cole, Thieves Like Us

“Wow' said Rose 'I never Knew my wish really is your command.'
The Doctor (10th) grinned. 'One bag of chips and I'm anyone's”
― Stephen Cole

“As the carriage bumped her bones along the dark country lanes, Martha decided that if she ever got back to her own time she would write a book called 'Travel in the Edwardian Era. It would be a short book - OUCH in capital letters followed by fifty pages of bad language.”
― Stephen Cole, Doctor Who: Sting of the Zygons

“You see? I have the run of this place." "Run? More like the zombie shuffle."-Yianna & Motti”
― Stephen Cole, Thieves Like Us

“Name? Masked Pseudo-religious Maniac. Organisation? Cult of Ophiuchus. Car registration? Shit, one of yours, actually –”
― Stephen Cole, Thieves Like Us

“If it helps, you can think of magic as technology yet to be understood,”
― Stephen Cole, Thieves Like Us

“Rose Tyler threw open the TARDIS doors and stood looking out, a massive grin on her face. The sky was a shimmering green. Three suns shone through the haze, their heat prickling her skin. The muddy ground was the colour of olives and sloped up sharply, while beyond it a range of pale mountains, perfect pyramids, stood like pitched tents on the far horizon.”
― Stephen Cole, Doctor Who: The Monsters Inside

“Hello,’ said the Doctor brightly. ‘Take me to your leader!”
― Stephen Cole, Doctor Who: The Monsters Inside

“The engines got louder, the rattling and bucking grew worse. Great, thought Rose. My life depends on a bug-eyed killer alien monster. Who may or may not have passed its driving test.”
― Stephen Cole, Doctor Who: The Monsters Inside

“But “prison” hardly does Justicia. . . er, justice.’ She tittered briefly at her little joke. ‘I prefer to think of it more as a testing centre.”
― Stephen Cole, Doctor Who: The Monsters Inside

“That Tyler human had the nerve to think that you were one of us, Governor,’ said Blanc. ‘Crazy.’ The Governor stared at them in the flickering blue light, struck dumb with terror.”
― Stephen Cole, Doctor Who: The Monsters Inside

“Justicia is not run by monsters, Doctor,’ said Flowers. ‘If anything, the monsters are kept inside. Murderers, rapists, pushers. . .”
― Stephen Cole, Doctor Who: The Monsters Inside

“You’re telling me.’ The Doctor stared up at it. ‘You’re from the planet Raxacoricofallapatorius, right?”
― Stephen Cole, Doctor Who: The Monsters Inside

“You’re too hasty,’ rumbled Don Arco. ‘We can still use his brain.’ ‘Yes – as a chamois leather!’ rasped Ermenshrew. ‘I’ll have Flowers polish the gravity accelerator with it – before I break her back!’ Flowers shuddered, and the Doctor must have noticed. ‘It’s OK,’ he said soothingly. ‘She won’t really make you polish with my brain. Think of the mess.”
― Stephen Cole, Doctor Who: The Monsters Inside

“Rose looked at the Doctor. ‘What are you up to?’ ‘Taking risks. Pushing my luck. The usual,’ he told her,”
― Stephen Cole, Doctor Who: The Monsters Inside

“It’s a knock-knock joke,’ Blanc giggled. The Governor stared at her blankly. ‘Knock, knock,’ said the monster. It lashed out with its fist and thumped twice on the governor’s head. The second blow crushed his skull against the mahogany desk, and splintered both. The blue light toppled over and fizzled out in a pool of his blood. ‘Do you think he got it?’ chuckled the monster, and Blanc fell about laughing.”
― Stephen Cole, Doctor Who: The Monsters Inside

“There would be another, less formal tribute to the best of the 1972 series: the name [Phil] Esposito eventually found its way into Russian street slang. Apparently, whenever a luckless Russian hooligan accidentally burns himself on the stove or cuts himself on an unexpectedly sharp knife he winces and shouts out the worst curse imaginable:

Esposito!”
― Stephen Cole, Hockey Night Fever: Mullets, Mayhem and the Game's Coming of Age in the 1970s

“Twelve worlds, four of which are inhabited.’ She chuckled. ‘They’re due to hold a peace conference on one of them next year.’ Don Arco grunted. ‘They can hold a pieces conference.”
― Stephen Cole, Doctor Who: The Monsters Inside