“Rationality is a luxury. It can flourish only when protected and nourished...”

“Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.”

“Apparently the Time Lords have a long and honourable tradition of genocide when they think the stakes are high enough”

“The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.”

“Life is so often unfair and painful and love is hard to find and you have to take it whenever and wherever you can get it, no matter how brief it is or how it ends.”

“She can never tell him what she started to say: that we come to love those who save us. For although Anna does believe this is true, the word that stuck in her throat was not save but shame.”

“For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say.”