The doctor, also unnamed, prescribes contraceptive pills to the protagonist. The doctor triggers the protagonist’s insecurities about her age with a small comment about the pills. He also tells her that she will have to watch her weight as a side-effect of the contraceptives, triggering her insecurities about her body.
The Doctor Quotes in Dark Roots
The Dark Roots quotes below are all either spoken by The Doctor or refer to The Doctor. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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“You’re not a smoker, are you?”
“No.”
“Only because if you were, at your age, I’d never be prescribing this brand.”
And you feel that little swoop again, hear the at your age like stepping on a sharp piece of gravel, a wince at ludicrous defensiveness.
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The Doctor Quotes in Dark Roots
The Dark Roots quotes below are all either spoken by The Doctor or refer to The Doctor. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Dark Roots
Quotes
“You’re not a smoker, are you?”
“No.”
“Only because if you were, at your age, I’d never be prescribing this brand.”
And you feel that little swoop again, hear the at your age like stepping on a sharp piece of gravel, a wince at ludicrous defensiveness.
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