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1 " And round and round and round. Why couldn't I get past the letter? Like poison id had seeped into every image and every memory I kept of Callum, polluting them until I couldn't tell which was real and what was just wishful thinking any more. Until at last, I was forced to face the inescapable fact that, for whatever reason, Callum had written the letter. "
― Malorie Blackman , Knife Edge (Noughts & Crosses, #2)
2 " 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. "
3 " When did we stop being people, being human? "
4 " Never, ever allow yourself to feel. Feelings kill. "
5 " 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. "
6 " I suppose it doesn't occur to you that I can think the system just as unjust as you do. "
7 " There are no such things as friends. Just acquaintances who haven't let you down yet. "
8 " 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. "
9 " Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either. "
10 " 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. "
11 " 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. "
12 " My rear end was blood-raw from my so called brilliant ideas rebounding on me. "
13 " How dare you both sit there and criticize and condemn me? "
14 " He thought astrology was a load of bosh! Didn't believe in stars and planets telling his fortune or anyone else's. "
15 " He loved to draw. Animals pouncing mostly. And trees. Always lone trees in black landscapes. "
16 " Oh, they’re fine,’ said Jaxon. ‘They "
17 " The sky was a blanket of grey, tarmac-coloured clouds with no hint of the blue beyond them. "
18 " You bring me bliss, my rainbow child. "