- The Doctor: Once upon a time... Once upon a Time Lord... I had a best friend, and her name was Donna Noble. A Time Lord and a human... and we travelled the stars together.
- Donna Noble: Sometimes I have dreams about impossible things. I dream of creatures and adventures and faraway skies. But none of it's true.
- The Doctor: Donna saved the entire universe by taking the power of the Time Lords into her mind - at a terrible cost. She had to forget everything she ever knew. She had to forget me. Because if Donna ever remembers me, she will die.
- Donna Noble: And now I've got a nice life, with a nice fella and a nice house, and the most beautiful daughter in the world... but I just think something's missing.
- The Doctor: I can never see Donna again.
- Donna Noble: Now the days are drawing in... I keep having more and more dreams. Like something's getting closer.
- The Doctor: But now this face has come back. Why?
- Donna Noble: It's like a storm in the air... about to break.
- The Doctor: I think the story hasn't ended yet.
- The Doctor: I really do remember, though. Every second with you. I'm so glad you're back, 'cause it killed me, Donna. It killed me, it killed me, it killed me.
- Donna Noble: We can have more days, can't we? I mean, why is it such a big goodbye with you? Why is it one last trip? Cos you could visit with my family. We could do outrageous things, like have tea, or dinner, and a laugh. And Rose's school play. Well, maybe not that. She can't act. She's terrible. I don't know how to tell her. But the point is, you've been given a second chance. You can do things different this time. So why don't you do something completely new, and have some friends?
- The Doctor: So you're Shaun Temple, which means that woman... your wife... That's Donna, is that right?
- Shaun Temple: Yeah! How did you know that?
- The Doctor: Oh, I know that friend of yours. Nerys.
- Shaun Temple: Oh, Nerys! How is she?
- The Doctor: She's fine.
- Shaun Temple: After the accident.
- The Doctor: She's not fine...
- Shaun Temple: It was her fault.
- The Doctor: She's BEEN fined. But she was saying about you and Donna. So... she's Donna Temple now?
- Shaun Temple: No! Still Donna Noble. She refused to be Noble-Temple cos she says it...
- The Doctor, Shaun Temple: ...sounds like an old ruin.
- The Doctor: I need to get north. That explosion just now. Something crashed. Can you get me there?
- Shaun Temple: Satnav says they're closing all the roads.
- The Doctor: Oh, I know some roads even taxi drivers don't. Trust me.
- [flashes psychic paper badge]
- The Doctor: Grand Master of the Knowledge.
- Shaun Temple: ...That says "Grand Mistress."
- The Doctor: Oh!
- [whacks badge against the cab]
- The Doctor: Catch up!
- The Doctor: [after giving Donna her preferred cup of coffee] I really do remember, though... every second with you- I'm so glad you're back, 'cause it killed me, Donna. It killed me, it killed me, it killed me.
- The Doctor: We're binary.
- Donna Noble: She's not, because the Doctor's...
- The Doctor: ...male...
- Donna Noble: ...and female.
- Rose Noble: And neither. And more.
- The Doctor: [Gets slapped by Sylvie, reminding him of how Rose Tyler and Martha's mothers did so] Here we go again.
- The Meep: They cultivate Meep kind for our beautiful fur.
- The Doctor: Oh you're a fashion victim.
- Shaun Temple, Sylvia Noble, Rose Temple-Noble, Donna Noble: [Disapproving remarks]
- The Doctor: Sorry.
- The Doctor: This court is now in session. Intercept teleport. I'm invoking Shadow Proclaimations Protocols 15PI6
- The Doctor: Yes. The Meep. I promise I can help him get home and then you'll never see me again.
- Rose Noble: You're assuming "he" as a pronoun?
- The Doctor: True. Yes. Sorry. Good point. Are you he or she or they?
- The Meep: My chosen pronoun is the definite article. I am always the Meep.
- Rose Temple-Noble: You're assuming "he" as a pronoun?
- The Doctor: True. Oh, yes. Sorry, good point. Are you...?
- The Meep: I am always the Meep.
- The Doctor: Oh. I do that.
- The Doctor: We've still got to fix you two, because the metacrisis might have slowed down, but that thing is wrapped around your cortex.
- Donna Noble: Yes, we know.
- Rose Noble: We know everything. Thanks.
- Donna Noble: And you know nothing. It's a shame you're not a woman any more, cos she'd have understood.
- Rose Noble: We've got all that power - but there is a way to get rid of it. Something a male-presenting Time Lord will never understand.
- Donna Noble: Just let it go.
- Rose Noble: And we choose to let it go.