John O'Callaghan
- It Feels Great.
I see things in color, I smell flowers in the Springtime; I hear babies cry and airplanes fly and lectures from those who raised me. I decided things and create things and take one thing and turn it into some other thing. I panic about my future, I regret things I've done in my past. I love and I lust and I hope and I pray that I don't ever fail to remember how great it feels to just feel.
Doctor Who
- Eleventh Doctor, The Power of Three
I'm not running away. But this is one corner... of one country, in one continent, on one planet that's a corner of a galaxy that's a corner of a universe that is forever growing and shrinking and creating and destroying, and never remaining the same for a single millisecond. And there is so much, so much to see, Amy. Because it goes so fast. I'm not running away from things, I am running to them. Before they flare and fade forever.
Amy Pond
- Doctor Who, The Beast Below
What if you were really old and really kind and lonely, your whole race dead? What could you do then? If you were that old, and that kind, and the very last of your kind, you couldn't just stand there and watch children cry.
Amy Pond
- Doctor Who, A Good Man Goes to War
I wish I could tell you that you'll be loved. That you'll be safe and cared for and protected. But this isn't the time for lies. What you are going to be, Melody, is very, very brave. But not as brave as they'll have to be. Because there's someone coming. I don't know where he is, or what he's doing, but trust me, he's on his way. There's a man who will never let us down, and not even an army can get in the way.
Amy Pond
- Doctor Who, The Girl Who Waited
You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later they're as dull as a brick? Then there's other people, when you meet them, you think, "Not bad. They're okay." And then you get to know them and their face just sort of becomes them. Like their personality's written all over it. And they just turn into something so beautiful.
River Song
- Doctor Who, Forest of the Dead
Everybody knows that everybody dies, and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever, for one moment, accepts it.
River Song
- Doctor Who, Forest of the Dead
Now my Doctor, I've seen whole armies turn and run away. And he'd just swagger off, back to his TARDIS and open the door with a snap of his fingers. The Doctor. In the TARDIS. Next stop: Everywhere.
River Song
- Doctor Who, The Wedding of River Song
You've touched so many lives, saved so many people, destroyed so many Daleks, Cybermen and so many more monsters. Did you think when your time came you'd really have to do more than just ask? You've decided that the universe is better off without you, but the universe doesn't agree. It needs you, it needs the Doctor.
The Eleventh Doctor
- Doctor Who, A Good Man Goes to War
Colonel Manton, I want you to tell your men "run away." Those words. "Run away." I want you to be famous for those exact words. I want people to call you Colonel Runaway. I want children laughing outside your door 'cause they've found the house of Colonel Runaway. And when people come to you and ask if trying to get to me through the people I love is in any way a good idea, I want you to tell them your name.
The Eleventh Doctor
- Doctor Who, The Big Bang
The daft old man who stole a magic box and ran away. Did I ever tell you that I stole it? Well, I borrowed it. I was always going to take it back. Oh, that box. Amy, you'll dream about that box. It'll never leave you. Big and little at the same time. Brand new and ancient and the bluest blue ever.
The Tenth Doctor
- Doctor Who, Journey's End
I just want you to know, there are worlds out there, safe in the sky because of her. That there are people living in the light and singing songs of Donna Noble. A thousand, million light years away. They will never forget her, while she can never remember. But for one moment, one shining moment, she was the most important woman in the whole wide universe.
The Tenth Doctor
- Doctor Who
I'm old enough to know that a longer life isn't always a better one. In the end, you just get tired. Tired of the struggle. Tired of losing everyone that matters to you. Tired of watching everything turn to dust.
John Green
- Excerpt from Paper Towns
And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.
John Green
- Excerpt from Paper Towns
College: getting in or not getting in. Trouble: getting in or not getting in. School: getting A's or getting D's. Career: having or not having. House: big or small, owning or renting. Money: having or not having. It's all so boring.
Veronica Roth
- Excerpt from Insurgent
People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts.
