Malorie Blackman Quotes

• But remember this if nothing else: I love you more than there are words or stars. I love you more than there are thoughts and feelings. I love you more than there are seconds or moments gone or to come. I love you.

  Malorie Blackman

  Stars, I Love You More, Feelings

  Malorie Blackman (2008). “Checkmate”, p.403, Random House

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• People are people. We'll always find a way to mess up, doesn't matter who's in charge.

  Malorie Blackman

  People, Noughts And Crosses, Matter

  Malorie Blackman (2009). “Naughts & Crosses”, p.481, Simon and Schuster

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• Because my mum and dad brought me up to believe that people are different but equal. And that I should treat everyone, no matter who, with the same respect I'd like to be shown.

  Malorie Blackman

  Dad, Believe, People

  Malorie Blackman (2007). “Knife Edge”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• The truth isn't going to bend itself to suit you.

  Malorie Blackman

  Suits You, Noughts And Crosses, Suits

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• The point is, you have family and friends who love you. You have a world out there just waiting for you to conquer it. You have a life that will be anything you make it. That's the point.

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  Love You, Waiting, Family And Friends

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• Hasta ahora no me había dado cuenta de lo poderosas que pueden ser las palabras. Quienquiera que haya inventado el dicho "los palos y las piedras pueden romper mis huesos, pero las palabras nunca me harán daño" estaba hablando desde su axila.

  Malorie Blackman

  Hurt, Powerful, Talking

  Malorie Blackman (2007). “Black & White”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes the things you're convinced you don't want turn out to be the thing you need the most in this world.

  Malorie Blackman

  Noughts And Crosses, Needs, World

  Malorie Blackman (2010). “Boys Don't Cry”, p.233, Random House

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• That just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But don't you believe them.

  Malorie Blackman

  Believe, Noughts And Crosses, Way

  Malorie Blackman (2009). “Naughts & Crosses”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Never, ever allow yourself to feel. Feelings kill.

  Malorie Blackman

  Feelings, Noughts And Crosses, Feels

  Malorie Blackman (2007). “Knife Edge”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.

  Malorie Blackman

  Lying, Thinking, Noughts And Crosses

  "Noughts & Crosses". Book by Malorie Blackman, www.theguardian.com. 2009.

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• You're a Nought and I'm a Cross and there's nowhere for us to be, nowhere for us to go where we'd be left in peace...That's why I started crying. That's why I couldn't stop. For all the things we might've had and all the things we're never going to have.

  Malorie Blackman

  Noughts And Crosses, Might, Cry

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• And things go unsaid soon get forgotten

  Malorie Blackman

  Noughts And Crosses, Forgotten, Unsaid

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• Why was it that when noughts committed criminal acts, the fact that they were noughts was always pointed out? The banker was a Cross. The newsreader didn't even mention it.

  Malorie Blackman

  Bankers, Criminals, Noughts And Crosses

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• But the Good Book said a lot of things. Like 'love thy neighbor' and ' do unto others as you would have them do unto you'. If nothing else, wasn't the message of the Good Book to live and let live? So how could the Crosses call themselves 'God's chosen' and still treat us the way they did?

  Malorie Blackman

  Book, Like Love, Noughts And Crosses

  Malorie Blackman (2009). “Naughts & Crosses”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• Un plan de respaldo significa que en algún lugar de mi cabeza pienso que puedo fracasar y esa palabra no está en mi vocabulario. Además, tengo demasiado talento para fracasar.

  Malorie Blackman

  Mean, Thinking, Vocabulary

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• The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.

  Malorie Blackman

  Challenges, News, Status Quo

  Malorie Blackman (2008). “Knife Edge”, p.288, Random House

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• Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please. Please. If you're up there. Somewhere.

  Malorie Blackman

  Noughts And Crosses, Dear God, Heard

  Malorie Blackman (2007). “Black & White”, p.488, Simon and Schuster

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• I suppose it doesn't occur to you that I can think the system just as unjust as you do.

  Malorie Blackman

  Thinking, Unjust, I Can

  Malorie Blackman (2007). “Knife Edge”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Just remember, Callum when you’re floating up and up in your bubble, that bubbles have a habit of bursting. The higher you climb, the further you have to fall’ - Lynette McGregor

  Malorie Blackman

  Fall, Noughts And Crosses, Floating

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• D'you ever wonder what it would be like if our positions were reversed?' I ask. At Jack's puzzled look I continue. 'If we whites were in charge instead of you Crosses?' 'Can't say it's ever crossed my mind,' Jack shrugs. 'I used to think about it a lot,' I sigh. 'Dreams of living in a world with no more discrimination, no more prejudice, a fair police force, an equal justice system, equality of education, equality of life, a level playing field.

  Malorie Blackman

  Dream, Thinking, Justice

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• So why did you want to kiss me?" "We're friends aren't we?" Callum shrugged. I relaxed into a smile. "Of course we are." "And if you can't kiss your friends who can you kiss?" Callum smiled.

  Malorie Blackman

  Kissing, Want, Kiss Me

  Malorie Blackman (2007). “Black & White”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Boys don't cry, but men do.

  Malorie Blackman

  Boys, Men, Noughts And Crosses

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• I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it's not the individuals who are prejudiced but society itself?

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  Comfort, Doe, Noughts And Crosses

  Malorie Blackman (2007). “Black & White”, p.367, Simon and Schuster

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• And just like that, I'd been assessed and judged. Nurse Fashoda didn't know the first thing about me but she'd taken one look at my face and now she reckoned she knew my whole life story -- what had gone before and what was yet to come.

  Malorie Blackman

  Taken, Nurse, Looks

  Malorie Blackman (2007). “Knife Edge”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either.

  Malorie Blackman

  Caring, Law, Shows

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