Malorie Blackman Quotes

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

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Suits You, Noughts And Crosses, Suits

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

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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.

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Dad, Believe, People

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

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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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I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Feelings, Noughts And Crosses, Feels

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

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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.

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Noughts And Crosses, Might, Cry

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

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Lying, Thinking, Noughts And Crosses

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

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And things go unsaid soon get forgotten

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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.

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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?

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Book, Like Love, Noughts And Crosses

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

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A backup plan means somewhere in my head, I think I might fail and that word is not in my vocabulary. Plus I'm too talented to fail.

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Mean, Thinking, Vocabulary

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

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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.

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Noughts And Crosses, Dear God, Heard

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

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I pulled him closer to me, wrapping my arms around him, kissing him just as desperately as he was kissing me. Like if we could just love long enough and hard enough and deep enough, then the world outside would never, could never hurt us.

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Hurt, Kissing, Long

Malorie Blackman (2009). “Naughts & Crosses”, p.421, 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Taken, Nurse, Looks

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

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