Doctor Who - The Girl in the Fireplace - sentence starters
1. “We are under attack! There are creatures, I don’t even think they’re human. We can’t stop them.”
2. “It’s a spaceship. Brilliant, I got a spaceship on my first go!”
3. “Nah, nothing here. Well, nothing dangerous. Well, not that dangerous. You know what, I’ll just do a quick scan, in case there’s anything dangerous.”
4. “Now there’s something you don’t see in your average spaceship.”
5. “What are you doing in my fireplace?”
6. “It’s okay. Don’t scream. It’s only me.”
7. “Okay, that’s scary.”
8. “Stay on the bed, right in the middle. Don’t put your hands or feet over the edge.”
9. “I don’t understand. It wants me?”
10. “It’s just a nightmare, ____, don’t worry about it. Everyone has nightmares.”
11. “What do monsters have nightmares about?”
12. “Space age clockwork. I love it, I’ve got chills!”
13. “Short-range teleport. Couldn’t have gotten far, could still be on board.”
14. “Don’t go looking for it!”
15. “S/he said not to look for it.”
16. “I was just looking for _____. This is still her/his room, isn’t it? I’ve been away, not sure how long.”
17. “It is customary, I think, to have an imaginary friend only during one’s childhood. You are to be congratulated on your persistence.”
18. “You do not appear to have aged a single day. That is tremendously impolite of you.”
19. “How could you be a stranger to me? I have known you since I was ____ years old.”
20. “Well, you seem to be flesh-and-blood at any rate, but this is absurd. Reason tells me you cannot be real.”
21. “So many questions. So little time.”
22. “It’s rule one: don’t wander off. I tell them, I do! It’s rule one!”
23. “That’s an eye in there. That’s a real eye.”
24. “Would you stop following me? I’m not your mother.”
25. “Maybe it wasn’t a real heart.”
26. “Is this like normal for you? Is this an average day?”
27. “What’s a horse doing on a spaceship?”
28. “How long have you been standing there? Show yourself!”
29. “Who are you? Identify yourself.”
30. “It was just doing what it was programmed to, repairing the ship in any way it can with anything it can find. No one told it the crew weren’t on the menu.”
31. “We are the same.”
32. “We are not the same. We are in no sense the same!”
33. “No, you’re not keeping the horse.”
34. “If there’s anything you don’t want me to see, just imagine a door and close it. I won’t look.”
35. “To walk among the memories of another living soul. Do you ever get used to this?”
36. “Sorry, you might find old memories reawakening. Side effect.”
37. “Such a lonely little boy/girl. Lonely then, and lonelier now. How can you bear it?”
38. “A door, once opened, can be stepped through in either direction.”
39. “They’re gonna to chop us up. Just like the crew, they’re gonna chop us up and stick us all over their stupid spaceship!”
40. “Have you met the French? My god, they know how to party!”
41. “You sound just like your mother.”
42. “Many things about this are not good.”
43. “Please don’t scream or anything. We haven’t got a lot of time.”
44. “So in five years, these creatures will return. What can be done?”
45. “S/he’ll be there when you need him/her. That’s the way it’s gotta be.”
46. “The monsters and _____. It seems you cannot have one without the other.”
47. “It happened, ____, and I would not have it any other way. One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.”
48. “So this is his/her world.”
49. “Those screams. Is that my future?”
50. “We must go. No one is coming to help us.”
51. “They knew I was coming. They blocked it off.”
52. “Your words mean nothing. You are nothing.”
53. “I have made a decision. And my decision is ‘no’.”
54. I will not be going with you today. I have seen your world, and I have no desire to set foot there again.”
55. “You think I fear you. But I do not fear you, even now.”
56. “Forget it. It’s over. For you and for me.”
57. “We can’t fly the ____ without him/her. How’s s/he going to get back?”
58. “What’s in a name? Names are just titles. Titles don’t tell you anything.”
59. “In saving me, you trapped yourself. Did you know that would happen?”
60. “That’s a thought, I’m going to need money. Always been a bit vague on money. Where do you get money?”
61. “So here you are, my lonely angel. Stuck on the slow path with me.”
62. “It appears undamaged. Do you think it will still work?”
63. “Still want to see those stars?”
64. “You just missed him/her. S/he’ll be in ____ by six.”
65. “I’m always all right.”
