Rose stares at him as he works, brittle and quiet.
"Are you all right?"
And the Doctor looks up, and says something as incomprehensible, as painful, as ugly, as worthless--and as true, and as beautiful--as he's ever said:
"I'm always all right."
--Jacob Clifton, TWOP
Oh, the Doctor. I absolutely love the Russell T. Davies era of Doctor Who. And on top of that, there are the recaps by Jacob, who writes like a poet with nothing but time and humanity's window. There are a few passages he's written that I've kept close to me.
"writes like a poet with nothing but time and humanity's window"
ReplyDeleteWow, That's a beautiful complement.