My Favorite Quotes

The Beast Below

Poem Girl: A horse and a man, above, below / One has a plan, but both must go / Mile after mile, above, beneath / One has a smile, and one has teeth / Though the man above might say hello / Expect no love from the beast below...

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Amy: One little girl crying! So?
The Doctor: Crying silently. I mean, children cry 'cause they all want attention, 'cause they're hurt or afraid. When they cry silently, it's 'cause they just can't stop. Any parent knows that.
Amy: Are you a parent?
The Doctor: [hesitates, then dodges the question] Hundreds of parents, walking past this spot, and not one of them's asking her what's wrong, which means that they already know, and it's something they don't talk about.

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Mandy: You sound Scottish.
Amy: I am Scottish! And what's wrong with that? Scotland's gotta be around here somewhere.
Mandy: No. They wanted their own ship.
Amy: Good for them! Some things never change.

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Mandy: You've never seen the film? Are you Scottish too?
The Doctor: Ooh, I'm way worse then Scottish. It won't even play for me.
Amy Pond: It played for me.
The Doctor: Well the difference is the computer doesn't recognise me as human.
Amy: Why not? ...You look human.
The Doctor: No, you look Time Lord. We came first.
Amy: So there are other Time Lords, yeah?
The Doctor: [nervously, awkwardly] No. There were, but there ain't-- Just me now. Long story. It was a bad day, bad stuff happened. And you know what, I'd love to forget it all, every last bit of it. But I don't. Not ever. Because this is what I do, every time, every day, every second. This...

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Amy: Amazing though, don't you think? The Starwhale. All that pain and misery… and loneliness… and it just made it kind.
The Doctor: But you couldn't have known how it would react.
Amy: You couldn't. But I've seen it before. Very old and very kind and the very very last of his kind. Sound a bit familiar?

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Amy: Have you ever run away from something because you were scared, or not ready, or just... just because you could?
The Doctor: Once... a long time ago.
Amy: What happened?
The Doctor: [gestures to himself] Hello!

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Amy Pond: In bed above we're deep asleep / While greater love lies further deep / This dream must end, this world must know / We all depend on the beast below...