Mystery Girl Quote Key: For all you lovely folks who are actually interested. I should point out that in the beginning of this story, I had never seen a full episode, only BBC clips, so many of my quotes are ever so slightly not correct. They get more accurate the farther you go.
Chapter 1:
"Of course I'm making sense, you're just not keeping up!" - A perversion of the Doctor's line in the Hungry Earth, Series 5
Chapter 2:
Not quite a quote, but all three parts of the TARDIS mentioned here are used in the guided adventure Attack of the Graske
Chapter 3:
"I am being extremely clever over here and there's no one to stand around looking impressed. What's the point in having you all?" - The Doctor's line in Day of the Moon, Series 6
"You're just making it up as you go along!" "But I do it brilliantly" - I think this is the Doctor to Mickey from Rise of the Cybermen, Series 2
"It's smaller on the outside!" - Clara Oswin Oswald's reaction upon seeing the TARDIS in The Snowmen, Series 7
Chapter 4:
"Course I haven't got a plan," the Doctor replied, chuckling a bit. "I never have a plan. But people love it when I say that." - One of 11's lines to Clara just before his regeneration in The Time of the Doctor, Series 7
"Talk very fast, hope something good happens. That usually works." - Also from roughly the same scene in the above
"Most species have a weak spot. For Sontarans, back of the neck. For Daleks, aim for the eyestalk. Vashta Nerada, well...never mind that." - Almost 10's line in Silence in the Library, Series 4. It would have ended with "run. Just run."
"There's one thing you need to know about traveling with me, well, one thing apart from the blue box and the two hearts… We don't walk away." - 11 to Clara in one of their first adventures together, right after supposedly leaving Merry behind in The Rings of Akhaten, Series 7
"Whoa, hello," he yelled. "I do the hand-grabbing, that's my job, that's always me!" - 11 to Clara while escaping from the Ice Governess in The Snowmen, Series 7
"When looked at from a nonlinear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's really a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey-wimey...stuff." - I think this is a line from the Doctor's speech in Blink, Series 3. You all know the one.
Chapter 5:
"Hush, brain working." - The Doctor says something at least similar to this in Vampires of Venice, Series 5
Chapter 7:
"...let the TARDIS die. Just let that old box gather dust. No one can open it, no one will even notice it. Let it become a strange little thing standing on a street corner, and over the years, the world will move on, and the box will be buried. And if you want to remember me, then you can do one thing. That's all, one thing… Have a good life. Do that for me." - 9's recorded message for Rose in The Parting of the Ways, Series 1
Chapter 9:
The Doctor's explanation of how the TARDIS is bigger on the inside hails back to the Fourth Doctor explaining it to his companion Leela, almost word for word.
"You can spend your whole life with me, but I can't spend my whole life with you." - Very close to what Ten says to Rose in School Reunion, Series 2
Chapter 10:
"That's how Daleks convert people: subtract love, add hate." - This idea hails directly from Asylum of the Daleks, Series 7
"Patience is for wimps." - The Doctor struggles to live in a house in The Power of Three, Series 7
Chapter 11:
"I think you'll find I am universally recognized as a mature and responsible adult." - This recalls a rather interesting babysitting attempt in A Christmas Carol, Series 6
The entirety of the beginning of the Doctor's phone call to UNIT comes from Planet of the Dead, Series 3. Captain Magambo and Malcolm Taylor are from here as well, although they may have been mentioned in other places as well
Not exactly a quote, but Ahren is almost Bulgarian for Angel. I like to feel clever.
Chapter 12:
"I am an idiot with a box and a screwdriver, passing through, helping out." - Part of 12's speech in Death in Heaven, Series 8
"With that chin, you could put someone's eye out." - One of my favorite Oswin Oswald lines in Asylum of the Daleks, Series 7
The speech from Blink, you know the one, is here in it's almost entirety as well. You can find it, you're smart.
Chapter 14:
"Nothing is ever impossible… Just a bit unlikely." - One of my personal favorite lines from the show, 10 says something close to this at least twice in The Doctor's Daughter, Series 4
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Father, than are dreamt of in your philosophy," - Hamlet! Go Clara! Except it's Horatio, not Father, but close enough
Chapter 17:
"But this is one corner of one country of one continent on one planet that's a corner of a galaxy that's a corner of a universe that is forever growing and shrinking and creating and growing and never remaining the same for a single millisecond… I'm not running away from things. I'm running to them. Before they flare and fade forever." I absolutely adore this quote of 11's from The Power of Three, Series 7
Chapter 18:
"Sixty-two years, four months, and three days" - This is a combination of two: Clara was left behind by the Doctor for 62 years in Last Christmas, Series 8. The four months and three days are the month and day amount that Amy was left in the care facility in The Girl Who Waited, Series 6
I won't type it out again, but all of Clara and the Doctor's conversation in the scene directly following the above quote also come from Last Christmas, Series 8
"Time can be rewritten-" "No, Doctor… Not those times. Don't you dare." The Doctor and River's exchange in both Forest of the Dead, Series 4, and The Wedding of River Song (I think), Series 6
"...if you rescue me, I'll cease to exist. Everything I've seen and done dissolves. Time is rewritten. I will die. Another Clara will take my place, one who never lived that time, one who grew old with you, and she, in sixty-two years, won't be me." - Amy's speech to Rory and through him, the Doctor when they offer to rescue her in The Girl Who Waited, Series 6
"This is the Doctor we're talking about, he's in a codependent relationship with a screwdriver, I mean, if he had to choose between an enormous, complicated machine he could fix with a toolkit and a girl, who would he go with?... Yeah, you're right… Both of them. Using the same toolkit." - This is a line from a hilarious short, Clara and the TARDIS
Chapter 19:
Mauve being the universally recognized color for danger comes from The Empty Child, Series 1
"Where's a Silurian audience when you need one?" - From another time the Doctor bemoaned a lack of appreciation in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, Series 7
"Triple seven five slash three four nine by ten zero twelve slash...acorn" - These are the coordinates River Song gives the Doctor through black box in Time of the Angels, Series 5
"Yeah. Well, it's just boring now, isn't it? They're boring-ers. They're blue boring-ers." - One of Eleven's lines from his tiff with River in The Time of the Angels, Series 5
Chapter 20:
"It's Britain, but metal. It's not just a ship, it's an idea. That's a whole country, living and laughing and shopping. Searching the stars for a new home." - Eleven's description of Starship UK to Amy in The Beast Below, Series 5
"...the angel's food source. The paradox poisons the well. It could kill them all. This whole place would literally unhappen." - River's idea in The Angels Take Manhattan, Series 7
"To create a paradox like that takes almost unimaginable power." - And this is the Doctor's response to the above line.
"Life and soul, you are." - Clara makes this same remark to I believe the War Doctor in The Day of the Doctor, Series 7
"Give it some squirts of helicon energy, setting number forty one. No more than three seconds each, random pulses." - The Doctor's instructions to Clara in The Caretaker, Series 8
"Run, you clever boy, and remember." - Clara's famous last words, used several times. I think you know where they are
Chapter 21:
"I escaped, then. Brilliant. I love it when I do that. Legs, yes. Bow tie, cool." - Eleven's line upon waking up in the TARDIS in The Big Bang, Series 6
"Everything I find out makes less sense." - This line, which I completely adore, comes from the Doctor's adventures in Closing Time, Series 6
"I don't always take you where you want to go, but I always take you where you need to go." - One of the most famous lines associated with the TARDIS (next to 'bigger on the inside,' of course), this hails from The Doctor's Wife, Series 6
Chapter 22:
I borrowed the setting for this chapter from the short She Said, He Said, which is a prequel to The Name of the Doctor. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it
Chapter 23:
"You stand there, eight years old, staring at the raw power of time and space, just a child. Some would be inspired, some would run away, and some would go mad." "And which were you?" "Oh, the ones that ran away. I never really stopped." - I forget exactly the circumstances surrounding this but it's from The Sound of Drums, Series 3
Chapter 24:
"...do you have to pass a test?" "Yes, and I failed." - This rather amusing revelation comes from The Shakespeare Code, Series 3
Four knocks. I couldn't resist. We know what that's about, I think
The holding cells he mentioned I borrowed from the Daleks, who use them to contain the Doctor, Rose, and maybe someone else too (I forget exactly) in Journey's End, Series 4
"You've redecorated! I don't like it" - This has been used all over the place by several different Doctors. He doesn't like change, I guess, which seems rather ironic to me…
"Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many." - This is, in my opinion, one of the most epic lines in the entire series. It comes from A Good Man Goes To War, Series 6
Chapter 25:
"Stay with me! Come on, you can do it, stay with me!" - This is an echo of Ten's last line to River's data ghost as he was running to save her to CAL in Forest of the Dead, Series 4
"Since always. Since the Cloister Wars. Since the night he stole the moon and the President's wife. Since he was a little girl. One of those was a lie. Can you guess which one?" - Missy describing her friendship with the Doctor in The Magician's' Apprentice, Series 9
"Time Lady, please. I'm old-fashioned." - Another sassy Missy quote, this one from Dark Water, Series 8
"You keep trying to kill him." "He keeps trying to kill me! We've been at it for ages. It's sort of our texting." - Missy on the Doctor once again from The Magician's Apprentice, Series 9
Chapter 26:
"Mystery! Get your coat!" - The Doctor yells the same thing to Amy while she is captive at Demon's Run in A Good Man Goes To War, Series 6
"I have got a time machine, Madame Architect. It's all still going on. For me, it never stops. Liz the First is still waiting in a glade to elope with me. I could help Rose Tyler with her homework. I could go on all of Jack's stag parties in one night. Time has never laid a glove on me." - Scary Eleven's line to Dorium Maldovar in The Wedding of River Song, Series 6
"Sorry? What did you say? Did you mention the rules? Now, bit of advice. Tell me the truth, if you think you know it, lay down the law, if you're feeling brave, but. Madame Architect, never, ever, tell me the rules!" - This parodies Eleven's speech just before he regenerates (sort of) in The Time of the Doctor, Series 7
"A great, big, whopping mistake." - I feel certain Eleven has said this more than once, but I remember it from Flesh and Stone, Series 5
"My friends have always been the best of me." - This broke my heart in The Wedding of River Song, Series 6
Chapter 27:
"People are like mayflies, breeding and dying and breeding and dying, on and on and on, repeating the same mistakes." - This is by no means word for word, but the idea hails directly from The Woman Who Lived, Series 9
"Never trust a man about his machine." - I swear this is a quote but it doesn't exist on the internet. Maybe I dreamed it but I'm certain enough that I'm going to put it here anyway, and if you find it, please let me know!
"Everything was still. Absolutely still." - The ever so famous last lines of certain chapters in The Magic Treehouse books. I couldn't resist
Chapter 28:
I borrowed the memory filters from UNIT, if you were curious. They can be seen in The Day of the Doctor and now both The Zygon Invasion and The Zygon Inversion, both Series 9
"And that force field can hold back anything. So-" "Almost anything." "Yes, well, I wasn't going to tell them that. Thanks." - A very similar exchange occurs between Nine and Captain Jack Harkness in The Parting of the Ways, Series 1
"Oh, I am prepared to believe you any second now." - I borrowed this line from BBC's Sherlock, actually. Scandal in Belgravia, I believe was the episode, when the weird American guy was going to shoot John if Sherlock didn't bust into Irene's safe
Chapter 29:
"Clara, you've saved my life so many times. Just once, just for the hell of it, let me save you!" - This is Eleven to Clara while she's in his time stream in The Name of the Doctor, Series 7
Chapter 30:
"Course I'm okay, I'm always okay, I'm the king of okay." - The younger Eleven says this to Amy in The Impossible Astronaut, Series 6
"Are you my mummy?" - I feel this hardly even needs to be cited, but this is The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances, both Series 1. Ten also made a reference to this once, but I don't know what episode it was
"Sometimes the only choices you have are bad ones, but you still have to choose." - A very famous line of Twelve's in Kill the Moon, Series 8
Chapter 31:
"I'll just reverse the polarity of the neutron flow" - I'm sure you all know this, I know it's a Classic Who line but I don't know from when or who. It was used at least once in The Day of the Doctor, Series 7, and possibly elsewhere in New Who as well
"Better a broken heart than no heart at all." - This incredibly tragic line comes from A Christmas Carol, Series 6
Chapter 32:
"You're talking nonsense to distract me, aren't you?" - This is one of his known characteristic, according to Osgood in The Zygon Inversion, Series 9
"You stepped into the heart of the Tardis. Even I don't know how strong that is. And the ship's telepathic. Gets inside your head. Translates alien languages. Maybe the raw energy can translate all sorts of thoughts." - This and all the further events the Doctor describes come from Boom Town, Series 1
"The last time I was dying, I looked back on all of you. All my companions. Every single one. And I was so proud." - That awkward moment when you quote a show you've never seen. This is from the spinoff The Sarah Jane Adventures, in the episode Death of the Doctor
The one adventure you can never have. - Oh, I cry. The Doctor says something similar to this to Rose in Doomsday, Series 2
Chapter 33:
"Dad skills." - Quite possibly my shortest quote ever, this comes from right after the Doctor puts little Danny to sleep in Listen, Series 8
Chapter 34:
"Could we have some coffee along here please? The good kind. We've got a new one. Five minutes, tops. It's best to wait for the good coffee. Sometimes it's just the instant." - This quote, and Seb's entire character, are borrowed from Dark Water, Series 8. Although this is totally not canon at all, I like to think that Missy would choose admin people who already have some experience with that sort of thing, so why not have him working for UNIT? I'm rather fond of this little headcanon.
"Today is March 26, 2005" - The airdate of the first episode of New Who. Also the day Rose meets the Doctor and Clara's mum died… Anyway
Also, another date quote: Elizabeth shares a birthday with Steven Moffat
"We borrowed it from a friend over in Torchwood. His own recipe, with a touch of denial and a dash of Retcon. A little bit of sedative, too." - And by friend at Torchwood I mean Captain Jack Harkness. He uses this same amnesiac on Gwen Cooper in Everything Changes, the very first episode of the Torchwood spinoff
Epilogue:
Mystery 'dies' at age 87, the same age as Amy
She was supposedly raised in the West County Children's Home in Gloucester, which is the same home visited by Clara and the Doctor in Listen, Series 8
Her daughter-in-law is the Adelaide Brooke of The Waters of Mars, yes. I'm ridiculously fond of this idea, even though it's so tiny nobody will ever catch it, probably, but that is the point of this key, after all