Doctor Who Quotes

“Sometimes we need to tell ourselves something important, something so important we don't tell ourselves in a very straightforward way. Sometimes we can only do it with a new face.”
― Holly Black, Doctor Who: Lights Out

“An unhappy childhood is supposed to make you grow up fast, but I still feel like a kid a lot of the time.”
― Holly Black, Doctor Who: Lights Out

“In the darkness, everything is different. The air feels thick. My skin itches. I close my eyes, but that just plunges me deeper into nothingness. It's like being out in space, drifting, without even the comfort of stars. It's like being buried in the earth, buried in my past, buried and trying to dig my way out.”
― Holly Black, Doctor Who: Lights Out

“Space is so dark that looking out at it confounds the brain. The more you stare at the vastness of it, at the hanging stars and the swirling galaxies, the more you start to notice how imprecise words like 'dark' and 'black' and 'endless' are. There are so many gradients of shadow, all of them terrifying to me. That's why I keep the lights on.”
― Holly Black, Doctor Who: Lights Out

“It's amazing how we hide from that, isn't it? How much of the violence of the universe comes from the unwillingness to say those two little words: 'I'm scared.”
― Holly Black, Doctor Who: Lights Out

“We all have things inside ourselves we can't kill,' I say, not sure which part of me would be better off dead: this monster self, or the normal one who wants nothing more than a little place on a little planet with his friends, the one who will have to live with being a killer.”
― Holly Black, Doctor Who: Lights Out