Marissa

“Children can be so cruel,’ the Doctor said. ‘Children’s writers can be even worse.”
― Derek Landy, The Mystery Of The Haunted Cottage

“You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!”
― The Tenth Doctor

“That went well," Christina murmured to him.

"Pffaww," he agreed. "They're a pair! They don't like anything. They don't even like the dachshund. Who doesn't like dachshunds? They're little parcels of dog-shaped goodness. I've known Jalabite Hegemon ships give up conquest and start little farmsteads just so they can have happy dachshunds. Everyone likes dachshunds, everywhere in the universe. Well, except on Bithomorency. People there got into a war with a refugee column of evolutionarily advanced dachshund supersoldiers fleeing the destruction of their homeworld. The wire-haired marines took out an entire town - two hundred thousand dead. And it was a tragic misunderstanding. The dachshunds only stopped to ask for some biscuits, automated defence systems fired on them. There's a lesson: never give control of your space weapons to an unsupervised machine." He shrugged, and she found herself nodding: schoolboy error.”
― Nick Harkaway, Doctor Who: Keeping Up with the Joneses

“I don’t find you suspicious at all.’ He turned to Martha and whispered, ‘I find him incredibly suspicious.”
― Derek Landy, The Mystery Of The Haunted Cottage