Rose: DOCTOR!
[She throws the Doctor a new sword]
The Doctor: Oh, so I'm still The Doctor then?
Rose: No arguments from me!

Rose: [nervous] And what about you? What are you going to do next?
The Doctor: [surprised] Well... back to the TARDIS. Same old life.
Rose: [worried] What, on your own?
The Doctor: Why? Don't you want to come?
Rose: Well, yeah...
The Doctor: Do you, though?
Rose: [emphatic] Yeah!
The Doctor: I just thought... 'cos I'd changed...
Rose: [relieved] Yeah, I thought 'cos you'd changed... you might not want me any more.
The Doctor: Oh, no, I'd love you to come!
Rose: Okay!



The Doctor: Strictly speaking, it's the fifteenth New York, which makes it New New New New New New...New New New New New New...New New New York.
[Rose Laughs]
The Doctor: What?
Rose: You're so different.
The Doctor: New New Doctor.

The Doctor: [in a squeeky voice after being kissed by Rose/Cassandra] Yup, still got it.

Rose: Get out of him!
The Doctor/Cassandra: Oooh, he's slim. And a little bit foxy. [speaks suggestively to Rose] You thought so too. I've been inside your head. You've been looking... you like it!

Rose: I want her to say "we are not amused". I bet you five quid I can make her say it.
The Doctor: Well, if I gambled on that, it would be an abuse of my privilege as a traveler in time.
Rose: Ten quid?
The Doctor: Done.



Rose: I thought you and me were... Well obviously I got it wrong. I've been to the year 5 billion but this, this is really seeing the future, you just leave us behind. Is that what you are gonna do to me?

The Doctor: NO. Not to you.
[...]
The Doctor: I don't age. I regenerate. But humans decay. You wither and you die. Imagine watching that happen to someone who you...
Rose: what, Doctor?
The Doctor: You can spend the rest of your life with me... But I can't spend the rest of mine with you.

The Doctor: [hugging Rose] How long did you wait?
Rose: [giddy with relief] Five and a half hours!
The Doctor: Right, always wait five and a half hours.



The Doctor: [American drawl] You goin' my way, doll?
Rose: [mimicking American accent] Is there any other way to go daddy-o? Straight from the fridge man!

[Upon seeing the faceless Rose]
The Doctor: Rose...
Detective-Inspector Bishop: you know her?
The Doctor: KNOW her? She's...
[...]
The Doctor: They did what? They just took her face and left her in the street. And as a result, that makes things simple, very, very simple. You know why? Because now, Detective-Inspector Bishop, THERE IS NO POWER ON THIS EARTH THAT CAN STOP ME! Come on!



The Doctor: I'll have to get a house! With - with doors and carpets, can you imagine? Me, living in a house?
Rose: [singsong voice] You'll have to get a mortgage!
The Doctor: No.
Rose: Oh yes.
The Doctor: No. That's it, I'm dying, it is all over.
Rose: What about me? I'll have to get one too. Or - it could be the same one. We could...I don't know...share. (The Doctor stares at her) Or not, whatever.
The Doctor: Anyway.
Rose: Yeah, we'll see.
The Doctor: I promised Jackie I would always take you back home.
Rose: Everyone leaves home in the end.
The Doctor: Not to end up stuck here!
Rose: Yeah, well stuck with you, that's not so bad.
The Doctor: Yeah?
Rose: Yes.

The Doctor: If you talk to Rose... Tell her I..... oh, she knows.

The Doctor: I’ve seen fake gods and bad gods and demigods and would-be gods. And out of all that, out of that whole pantheon, if I believe in one thing, just one thing… I believe in HER.




Rose: [seeing cat] Oh! Aren't you a beautiful boy?
The Doctor: Thanks. I've been experimenting with back-combing.. [seeing cat] Oh.

The Doctor: You know the thing you need most of all? You need a hand to hold.

Rose: Who's gonna hold his hand now?


Rose: You know what - they keep trying to split us up, but they never ever will.
The Doctor: Never say never ever.
Rose: Nah, we'll always be alright, you and me. [pause] Don't you think? Doctor?
The Doctor: Something in the air. Something's coming. [Beat] A storm's approaching...

The Doctor: How long are you going to stay with me?
Rose: Forever.



The Doctor: Once the breach is closed, that's it! You will never be able to see her again, your own mother!
Rose: I made my choice a long time ago, and I'm never going to leave you. So, what can I do to help?

Rose: Am I ever going to see you again?
The Doctor: You can't.
Rose: What are you going to do?
The Doctor: Back to the TARDIS. Same old life.
Rose: On your own?
The Doctor: Yeah.
Rose: I-....I love you.
The Doctor: Quite right too. [pause] And I suppose, if it's my last chance to say it... Rose Tyler... [transmission cuts, and the Doctor fades away]

The Doctor: Trust me
Donna: Is that what you said to her? Your friend, the one you lost? Did she trust you?
The Doctor: Yes, she did. And she is not dead, she is so alive. Now jump!

The Doctor: I spent Christmas day right over there, the Powell Estate. With this... family. My friend, she had this family. Well, they were m... Still. Gone now.

Donna: This friend of yours, what was her name?
The Doctor: [Tears in his eyes] Her name was Rose.

The Doctor: I had.. it was recently. A friend of mine. Rose, her name was. Rose. And... we were together. Anyway...
Martha: Where is she now?
The Doctor: With her family. Happy. She's fine. She's... NOT that you're replacing her!

The Doctor: Rose'd know. A friend of mine, Rose, right now she'd say exactly the right thing.

Carrionite: But your heart grows cold. The north wind blows, it carries down the distant... Rose!
The Doctor: Ohh big mistake! Cause that name keeps me fighting.

John Smith (aka human, amnesiac Doctor) dreams and writes in his Journal of Impossible Things:
"Perfect Rose" (repeated several times)



Jack: Just gotta ask. The Battle of Canary Wharf. I saw the list of the dead. It said Rose Tyler.
The Doctor: Oh no, sorry! She’s alive!
Jack: You’re kidding!
The Doctor: Parallel world. Safe and sound. And Mickey. And her mother.
Jack: Yes! [they hug]

Martha: Is that what happens, though? Seriously? You just get bored of us one day and disappear?
Jack: Not if you’re blonde.

Jack: What happened?
The Doctor: Rose.
Jack: I thought you sent her back home.
The Doctor: She came back. Opened the heart of the TARDIS and absorbed the time vortex itself.
Jack: What does that mean exactly?
The Doctor: No one’s ever meant to have that power.
The Doctor: If a Time Lord did that, he’d become a god. A vengeful god. But she was human. Everything she did was so human. She brought you back to life. But she couldn’t control it. She brought you back forever. That’s something I suppose. The final act of the Time War was life.
Jack: Think she can change me back?
The Doctor: I took the power out of her. She’s gone, Jack. She's not just living on a parallel world, she’s trapped there. The walls have closed.
Jack: I’m sorry.
The Doctor: Yep.
Jack: I went back to her estate. In the 90s. Just once or twice. Watched her growing up. Never said hello. Timelines and all that.

Donna: What about Rose?
The Doctor: Still lost.

Lucius: Doctor, she is returning.
The Doctor: Who is? Who is she?

The Doctor: Yeah... I had a friend who went to a different universe...

The Doctor: Rose Tyler Martha Jones Donna Noble TARDIS!

Season One

Christopher Eccleston: It's a love story.

CE, on being asked on a quiz show if the Doctor fancies Rose: Oh, absolutely.

Russell T Davies: From the moment they meet, the Doctor and Rose are soul mates. They understand and complement each other.

Billie Piper: She's quite in love with him.

Steven Moffat: Obviously and quite overtly, really, the subtext of this show is that the Doctor is hopelessly in love with Rose.

John Barrowman: When he kisses her, it’s not only the thing that he’s wanted to do throughout the entire series, but it gives him peace because he’s letting go of the burden of the Time Lords being destroyed and he’s saving the one that he—he loved the Time Lords, they were his people—but he loves this girl. - audio commentary, The Parting of the Ways

Season Two

DT: The Doctor and Rose is, at its heart, a love story without the shagging. - the official Doctor Who News Feed

DT: They are a couple in every way, except for the shagging. Like John Steed and Emma Peel.

DT on 'Tooth and Claw': I love the Doctor and Rose's relationship in that because they start to fall in love with each other again, as Rose begins to trust the new bloke, and I love the way that Russell pushes that so that they're almost enjoying themselves too much. - from page 198 of Doctor Who: The Unfolding Story

BP: ...the love of her life is still trapped in a drawing... - Fear Her confidential

Euros Lyn (director of several eps last year, and TRB this year: The Doctor and Rose love each other. I think it's that simple.

RTD: What Rose brings to the Doctor’s life is completion, it’s completing a circle – he’s male, he’s alien, he’s a traveler. Between the two of them together they complement each other and discover each other. And are in love with each other, absolutely, unashamedly, unreservedly. - Doomsday Confidential

BP: Having experienced this crazy supernatural stuff, it’s just heartbreaking, the thought of not having the chance to do that again with the man that she loves. - DD Confidential

DT: It's great because the Doctor and Rose are just so in tune there. They couldn't be more perfectly together (said as the Doctor explains his plan to "pull 'em all in"). - DD commentary

Post Season Two

In TV Times, DT says: "So the Doctor is literally thrown into this bizarre new circumstance before he's properly gotten himself together after saying farewell to Rose, who was the love of his life."

In TV and Satellite Week, DT says about Donna and the Doctor: "She's not too pleased about having her wedding interrupted and he's just lost the love of his life so there's a bit of an odd couple vibe there."

DT: "Martha was never quite accepted by the Doctor because he couldn't quite accept that Rose had gone. He certainly couldn't accept that he needed somebody else."


Season 4

David: If Rose is over there, and she's all you want in the universe, you're desperate to get to her, you'd want to be able to run flat out, don't you?

David: He knows that Rose mustn't come back, that it goes against all the laws of space and time. And yet, the chance to get to see her again is clearly something that he is very excited about and delighted by.

RTD: ..and they run towards each other like the biggest romance you have seen in your life. Aaaaand as in most great lovestories he's shot down by a Dalek.

David: it's a moment of high emotion, for all involved.

David: Rose is faced with the fact that she might be about to lose another Doctor, just as she has come goodness knows how many zillion lightyears to be reunited with him.

Billie: She's very fond of this version of the Doctor, she hasn't seen him for a long time, she's completely in love with him and he's about to change form again... She knows what it means, and it frightens her.