… he was reminded on Trenzalore that he wasn’t Human; that he wasn’t one of them, and that they live for a very short time. And that’s what made him draw back a bit, and think ‘I’m getting too bound up in them.’ Of course, ho doesn’t succeed in that at all! In his very repressed, restrained way, he’s clearly as besotted with Clara as he ever was!
Steven Moffat, talking about the Doctor post-regeneration, in Doctor Who magazine #484, 2015. (via cardinalcapaldi)