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41 " 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 , Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
42 " Did you love Melanie?" asked Adam unexpectedly. There was no pause before I shook my head."That's a shame," said Adam."Why?""Well, someone as special as your daughter should've been... made with love. "
― Malorie Blackman , Boys Don't Cry
43 " Lynny's solution was better. Just fade out, until you were ready to fade back in. "
44 " Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to.When you have to. "
― Malorie Blackman , Knife Edge (Noughts & Crosses, #2)
45 " I suppose it doesn't occur to you that I can think the system just as unjust as you do. "
46 " 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. "
47 " 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. "
48 " Was that all love did for you? Made you give up and give in? Left you open to pain and hurt? "
49 " I lay on her bed with my arms wrapped around her, wondering how on earth we'd managed to end up like this. I'm not sure what'd been on my mind when I came to see her, but this wasn't it! Strange the way things turn out. When I'd come into her room I'd been burning up with desire to smash her and everything around her. And yet here she was, asleep and still holding on to my arms like I was a life-raft or something. There's not a single millimetre between her body and mine. I could move my hands and, and, anything I liked. Caress or strangle. Kill or cure. Her or me. Me or her. "
50 " The higher you climb, the further you have to fall. "
51 " What was it about the differences in others that scared some people so much? "
52 " Who did it, Sephy?' She repeated. 'Who beat you up? 'Cause whoever it was, I'll kill them. "
53 " Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while. "
― Malorie Blackman
54 " There are no such things as friends. Just acquaintances who haven't let you down yet. "
55 " The media called us ruthless terrorists. We're not. We're just fighting for what's right. Being born a nought shouldn't automatically slam shut myriad doors before you've even drawn your first breath. "
56 " Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either. "
57 " One of us...One of them...One of us...One of them...A rhythm playing like train wheels on a circular track -- never ending but going nowhere. "
58 " No-one understood. No-one. Least of all - me. "
59 " 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. "
60 " My rear end was blood-raw from my so called brilliant ideas rebounding on me. "