“Oh great," moaned Owen. "we've got one corpse in the SUV already, and now we have to fit us and this carcass in there too”

“Lieutenant-Colonel Yorke told me you Torchwood people always take the extreme view. We have a saying in basic training: "If you hear hoof-beats, you look for horses, and not zebras".''You don't know the half of it,' Gwen said. 'In my job, if I hear hoof-beats, I expect to see unicorns.”

“Ich dachte, du ziehst es vor, C-Minus zu sprechen.""Das heißt C++", schalt sie ihn. "Ich weiß außerdem, dass Java mehr ist als nur Kaffee. Und Assembler nichts mit Ikea-Möbeln zu tun hat.”

“I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.”

“We've got to get in to get out.”

“Around about now, young John Owen comes out of the shack lugging my old musket from the War. At six years of age, our youngest boy already knew his business. Not a word, just brings the shooting iron somewhat closer so's he don't waste powder, then hoists her up, set to haul back on the trigger. I believe his plan was to shoot this feller, get the story later.”

“Freud was a genius; geniuses are bright but not necessarily right. What they do do, right or wrong, is to provide images that guide, or compel, the lives of the rest of us. If we are not careful we may accept the inevitability of these images. It seems that great men offer us a portion of reality and, because of their greatness, we take it for the whole.”