Clara Oswald – Character Quotes

Run, you clever boy, and remember me.

– It all just disappears, doesn't it? Everything you are, gone in a moment, like breath on a mirror. Any moment now... He's a-comin'.
– The Doctor.
– You. You are the Doctor.
– Yep, and I always will be. But times change, and so must I.
– Amelia!
– Who's Amelia?
– The first face this face saw. We all change. When you think about it, we're all different people all through our lives, and that's okay, that's good, you gotta keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be. I will not forget one line of this. Not one day. I swear. I will always remember when the Doctor was me.

– Tell me what you knew, Doctor, or I'll smack you so hard you regenerate.
– I knew that eggs are not bombs. I know they don't usually destroy their nests. Essentially what I knew was: you would always make the best choice. I had faith that you'd always make the right choice.
– Honestly, d'you have music playin' in your head when you say rubbish like that?
– It wasn't my decision, I told you.
– Shut up! I am so sick of listening to you!
– Well, I didn't do it for Courtney. I didn't know what was going to happen. D'you think I'm lying?
– I don't know. I don't know! If you didn't do it for her, I mean... D'know what? It was cheap. It was pathetic. No, no, no, it was patronising! That was you patting us on the back, saying "You're big enough to go to the shops yourself now. Go on, toddle along".
– No, that was me allowing you to make a choice about your own future. That was me... respecting you.
– Oh my god, really? Was it? Yeah, well respected is not how I feel!
– Right, OK.
– I nearly didn't press that button! I nearly got it wrong. That was you, my friend, making me scared... Making me feel like a bloody idiot.
– Language!
– Oh, don't you ever tell me to mind my language! Don't you ever tell me to take the stabilisers off my bike! And don't you dare lump me in with the rest of all the little humans that you think are so tiny and silly and predictable! You walk our Earth, Doctor, you breath our air, you make us your friend. That is your moon, too, Doctor, and you can damn well help us when we need it!
– I was helping.
– What, by clearing off?
– Yes.
– Yeah? Well, clear off! Go On! Get back in your lonely... your lonely bloody TARDIS, and you don't come back — and you don't come back.
– Clara! Clara!
– You go away! And you don't come back. OK? You go a long way away!

I don’t know where I am. It’s like I’m breaking into a million pieces and there is only one thing I remember: I have to save the Doctor. He always looks different.
– Doctor!
I always know it’s him. Sometimes I think I’m everywhere at once, running every second just to find him.
– Doctor!
Just to save him.
– Doctor! Doctor?
But he never hears me. Almost never. I blew into this world on a leaf. I’m still blowing. I don’t think I’ll ever land. I’m Clara Oswald. I’m the impossible girl. I was born to save the Doctor.

This leaf isn’t just the past, it’s a whole future that never happened. There are billions and millions of unlived days for every day we live. An infinity. All the days that never came. And these are all my mum’s.

And now it's time for one last bow, like all your other selves.
Eleven's hour is over now, the clock is striking twelve's.

— If it isn't my gravestone, then what is it?
— What do you think that gravestone really is?
— The gravestone?
— Maybe it's a false grave.
— Maybe it's a false grave.
— Yeah, maybe.
— Maybe it's a secret entrance to the tomb.
— Maybe it's a secret entrance to the tomb!
— Yes! Of course. Makes sense. They'd never bury my wife out here.
— Your what?!

– What if one last heartbeat is all I’ve got? What if time isn’t healing? What if the universe needs me to die?
– The universe is over! It doesn’t have a say anymore! We’re standing on the last ember. The last fragment of everything that ever was. As of this moment, I’m answerable to no one!

– Four-and-a-half-billion years...
– If she says so.
– Why would you even do that? I was dead! I was dead and gone. Why? Why would you even do that to yourself?
– I had a duty of care.

– Hi. What can I get you?
– I don’t have any money. But I play.
– Okay. Don’t you need to plug that thing in?
– Yeah. You’re English.
– You’re not.
– How did you get out here?
– Magic. Or maybe I went to an airport and caught a plane. You?
– Magic.
– I believe you. You been traveling?
– Yeah. From time to time.
– Is it a sad song?
– Nothing’s sad until it’s over. Then everything is.
– What’s it called?
– I think that it’s called “Clara”.
– Tell me about her.

– You remember Ashildr, of course.
– Yeah sure.
– I thought you’d be more surprised to see her.
– I was watching. On the monitor. No. Doctor, whatever you’re about to do, don’t do it.
– It won't hurt, I promise. You'll pass out for a second.
– And then?
– You'll wake up, everything will be fine.
– But...
– Clara, listen to me.
– Tell me. Come on, talk.
– When you wake up you will have forgotten me. You’ll have forgotten we even met.
– And why would I want that?
– Because it’s the only way. That stuff in your head, the image of me, they could use it to find you.
– I... I used them.
– On what?
– On this?
– What did you do?
– What do you think? Eschilda is right, we are similar.
– Tell me what you did?
– What else? What else do you think I did? I reversed the polarity. Push that button, Doctor, it will go off in your own face!
– You were trying to trick me?
– What are you trying to do to me?
– I’m trying to keep you safe!
– Why? Nobody’s ever safe. I never asked you for that, ever. These have been the best years of my life and they are mine. Tomorrow’s promised to no one, Doctor. But I insist upon my past. I am entitled to that. It’s mine.