34 Quotes by Paul Cornell

When Captain America died, Americans heard it in an American way: through the media. When Captain Britain died, the British felt it in their chests.

He’s like fire and ice and rage. He’s like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He’s ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And... he’s wonderful. – Tim Latimer.

As Lizzie had seen so many times with victims, the harder your life had been, the harder it was to give yourself room for ethical choices. So were born cycles of abuse.

Judith hated nostalgia. It was just the waiting room for death.

John Smith: Mankind doesn’t need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour. Let’s hope that from now on this country can find its heroes in smaller places. In the most ordinary of deeds.

It’s not for me to share the meanings of others. I am only in charge of my own.

The idea of parts of the body public fighting each other was like the idea of a man’s punching himself in the face. It was a physical blasphemy that suited this era as an index of how far it had all gone.

Lizzie had come to understand that Sue’s mission in life was to say the things that she, or indeed anyone else, wouldn’t or couldn’t.

You with the tentacles, you’re nicked!