Malorie Blackman Noughts And Crosses Quotations

And things go unsaid soon get forgotten

Boys don't cry, but men do.

He pulls the hood over my head. I try to pull back. I'm not trying to run away. I just want to see her... One last time...

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?

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.

Who did it, Sephy?' She repeated. 'Who beat you up? 'Cause whoever it was, I'll kill them.

Mrs Bawden yanked me away from the table and dragged me across the food hall. I tried to twist away from her, but she had a grip like a python on steroids.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Never, ever allow yourself to feel. Feelings kill.