Bill: Are you trying to scare us?!
The Doctor: I’m maxing out your adrenaline! Fear keeps you fast! Fast is good!
Bill: Do people ever hit you!?
The Doctor: Well, only when I’m talking.

The universe shows its true face when it asks for help, we show ours by how we respond.

The Doctor

Bill: What’s a fluid link?
Nardole: No idea! But the TARDIS can’t go anywhere without it.
The Doctor: Who told you that?
Nardole: You did!
The Doctor: Exactly [The TARDIS takes off.]

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Bill: What is that?
The Doctor: *That* is my theme tune, otherwise known as a distress call!
Bill: You *like* distress calls?
The Doctor: You only really see the true face of the universe when it’s asking for your help.

Space, the final frontier. ‘Final,’ because it wants to kill us.

The Doctor

You don’t have to go to outer space to find monsters. There’s plenty of things that wanna kill you right here on Earth!

Nardole

All right, you lot. Back to the estate agents. Better luck next time!

The Doctor

What’s the point of surviving if you never see anyone, if you hide yourself away from the world?! When did you last open the shutters?

The Doctor

Hope is its own form of cruelty.

The Caretaker

Harry: I’m scared.
The Doctor: Don’t be.
Harry: Why?
The Doctor: It doesn’t help.

Honestly, Doctor, there’s nothing going on! Nothing weird, nothing alien! Just an old house and a dodgy landlord, which is pretty standard for students.

Bill

The Doctor: Did you hear the tree squeaking when you arrived outside?
Bill: Yeah. It was the wind!
The Doctor: There wasn’t any wind...