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Malorie Blackman

Malorie Blackman Books

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Malorie Blackman is a British writer renowned for her young adult literature. Her works often explore themes such as race, identity, and power, with her most famous series being 'Noughts & Crosses'. Born on February 8, 1962, Blackman began her writing career in the 1990s.

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“He wrapped his arms around me. We were cuddled up like a couple of spoons in a cutlery drawer.”

Love Romance Relationship Romantic

Book:Noughts & Crosses

Source: Noughts & Crosses

“This world is full of sheeple, not people, all longing to be told what to do, how to think. Sheeple who are lost without someone to follow. And you know the best part? Even when most of them know they're being led over a cliff, they'll still follow because it's less effort than thinking for themselves. It's the human condition.”

Human Nature Dystopian Fiction

Book:Crossfire

Source: Crossfire

“For once I didn't look away immediately. I forced myself to meet her contemptuous gaze. I allowed myself be swept away by it, to drown in it - the way I'd done so many times before. The way I would willingly do again. Because at least she was here to hate me. At least I had that. I watched my daughter conjure up the filthiest look in her vast arsenal before she turned away with complete disdain. I didn't mind that so much. It meant I could watch her, drink her in without her protest. Look at our daughter, Callum. Isn't she beautiful, so very beautiful? She laughs like me, but when she smiles... Oh Callum, when she smiles, it's picnics in Celebration Park and sunsets on our beach and our very first kiss all over again. When Callie Rose smiles at me, she lights up my life. When Callie Rose smiles at me.”

Hatred Smile Tolerance

Book:Checkmate

Source: Checkmate

“Her life was her major disappointment, her mistakes carved into every premature line in her face, but I wasn’t going to let her use my life as her second chance.”

Disappointment Parents Second Chance

Book:Noughts & Crosses

Source: Noughts & Crosses

“When a chance for real happiness comes by, grab it with both hands and devour it. If it lasts five minutes or five lifetimes, it's still worth it.”

Happiness Life Advice Callum Mcgregor

Book:Checkmate

Source: Checkmate

“You have the same smile, the same shaped eyes, the same way of tilting your head to listen, the same stubborn streak, the same common sense. Lots of things about you and him are the same.”

Callum Sephy 74 Callie Rose Malorie Blackman

Book:Checkmate

Source: Checkmate

“Nonsense," Miss Porter told her. "One itsy-bitsy-teeny-tiny little crisp isn't going to hurt." "But that's the trouble," Hannah argued. "You never have just one ity-bitsy-teeny-tiny little crisp." "Nonsense," Miss Porter said again. "You all worry too much.”

Book:The Monster Crisp-Guzzler

Source: The Monster Crisp-Guzzler

“And... well, she had done it. Just as she said she would. She felt nothing - which was good - no, which was great. You could get anything you wanted in this world if you didn't feel. It was just a shame that she couldn't feel happy about it. She would've settled for feeling satisfaction at what she'd done, but feeling nothing at all was better than feeling bad. If that was all there was, then that was all she wanted or needed”

Depression Nothingness Nothing Numb Numbness Numbness Of Feeling

Book:Tell Me No Lies

Source: Tell Me No Lies

“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.”

Noughts And Crosses

Book:Noughts & Crosses

Source: Noughts & Crosses

“He was constantly surprising me like that. I had thought I didn't like surprises, but I found I did when they came from him.”

Love Surprises Sephy

Book:Checkmate

Source: Checkmate

“To my fellow Crosses, keep the faith.”

Love Faith Persephone Sephy Persephone Hadley

Book:Noughts & Crosses

Source: Noughts & Crosses

“She had the longest tail I'd ever seen on any creature. It curled right round the classroom and moved gently up and down like a huge, long finger waving”

Dragon Creature Tail

Book:The Monster Crisp-Guzzler

Source: The Monster Crisp-Guzzler

“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.”

Book:Knife Edge

Source: Knife Edge

“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”

Remember Fall Habit Higher Climbs Bubbles Floating Bursting Noughts And Crosses

Author:Malorie Blackman

“She stays lost in the middle of her own world somewhere. We can’t get in and she doesn’t come out. Not often anyway, and certainly not for any length of time. But her mind takes her to somewhere kind, I think, to judge by the peaceful, serene look on her face most of the time.”

Thinking World Mind Looks Kind Faces Lost Middle Judging Peaceful Length Serene Noughts And Crosses

Book:Black & White

Source: Black & White

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

Way Believe Never Change Noughts And Crosses Things Will Never Change

Book:Naughts & Crosses

Source: Naughts & Crosses

“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.”

Ifs World Long Hard Enough Hurt Arms Kissing Wrapping Kissing Him Noughts And Crosses

Book:Naughts & Crosses

Source: Naughts & Crosses

“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.”

Might Left Cry Crosses Noughts And Crosses

Author:Malorie Blackman

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

Ifs Heard Please Dear Dear God Noughts And Crosses

Book:Black & White

Source: Black & White

“Don't you know that boys don't cry?' Adam grinned. 'Shall I tell you something I've only recently discovered,' I replied, not attempting to hide the tears rolling down my face and not the least bit ashamed of them. 'Boys don't cry, but real men do.”

Knows Men Real Faces Bits Boys Cry Tears Ashamed Adam Rolling Attempting Real Men Noughts And Crosses Boys Don't Cry

Author:Malorie Blackman

“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.”

May Hurt Powerful Talking Break Stones Sticks Bones Hurt Me Sticks And Stones Powerful Words Armpits Noughts And Crosses

Book:Black & White

Source: Black & White

“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.”

Tables Halls Twists Steroid Python Noughts And Crosses

Book:Naughts & Crosses

Source: Naughts & Crosses

“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?”

Ifs Way Said Stills Book Messages Crosses Treats Neighbor Chosen Good Book Like Love Love Thy Neighbor Do Unto Others Live And Let Live Noughts And Crosses

Book:Naughts & Crosses

Source: Naughts & Crosses

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

Thinking Want Lying News Noughts And Crosses

Author:Malorie Blackman

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

Causes Beats Noughts And Crosses

Book:Black & White

Source: Black & White

“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.”

Facts Crosses Committed Criminals Bankers Noughts And Crosses

Author:Malorie Blackman

“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?”

Doe Used Certain Individual Belief Comfort Notion Peculiar Spoilt Noughts And Crosses

Book:Black & White

Source: Black & White

“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.”

“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.”

Want Trying Running Lasts Running Away Last Time Hood Noughts And Crosses

Book:Naughts & Crosses

Source: Naughts & Crosses

“Boys don't cry, but men do.”

Men Boys Cry Noughts And Crosses Boys Don't Cry

Author:Malorie Blackman

“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.”

Ifs Want Courses Kissing Relaxed Kiss Me Noughts And Crosses

Book:Black & White

Source: Black & White

“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.”

World Waiting Love You Conquer Family And Friends Waiting For You Noughts And Crosses

Author:Malorie Blackman

“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.”

Knows Firsts Looks Whole Stories Faces Gone Taken Whole Life Judged Nurse Life Story

Book:Knife Edge

Source: Knife Edge

“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.”

Ifs Moments Walks Numbers Five

Book:Knife Edge

Source: Knife Edge

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

Shows Law Caring Vulnerability Fourth

Author:Malorie Blackman

“Never, ever allow yourself to feel. Feelings kill.”

Feels Feelings Noughts And Crosses

Book:Knife Edge

Source: Knife Edge

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

Thinking I Can Unjust

Book:Knife Edge

Source: Knife Edge

“When did we stop being people, being human?”

People Humans Being Human

Book:Knife Edge

Source: Knife Edge

“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.”

Train Track Rhythm Wheels Never Ending

Author:Malorie Blackman

“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.”

People Should Believe Different Matter Dad Equal Treats Mum Mum And Dad

Book:Knife Edge

Source: Knife Edge

“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.”

Thinking Mean Might Plans Failing Plus Vocabulary Backup Backup Plan

Author:Malorie Blackman

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

Suits Suits You Noughts And Crosses

Author:Malorie Blackman

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

World Want Needs Sometimes Turns This World Convinced Noughts And Crosses

Book:Boys Don't Cry

Source: Boys Don't Cry

“Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?”

People Ifs Years Kids Five Five Years Immortal Wry Wry Smile

Author:Malorie Blackman

“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.”

Should Wells Made Said Special Daughter Shame Adam Pauses Your Daughter Made With Love

Author:Malorie Blackman

“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.”

Ifs Moments Feelings Remember Stars Gone Love You Seconds Thoughts And Feelings Love You More I Love You More Noughts And Crosses

Book:Checkmate

Source: Checkmate

“I wish... I wish he wasn't quite so ashamed of me. And if he could stop feeling so ashamed of himself, then maybe we might stand a chance.”

Ifs Feelings Might Wish Chance Ashamed

Author:Malorie Blackman

“And things go unsaid soon get forgotten”

Forgotten Unsaid Noughts And Crosses

Author:Malorie Blackman

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

People Way Matter Mess Noughts And Crosses

Book:Naughts & Crosses

Source: Naughts & Crosses

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

Challenges News Status Quo

Book:Knife Edge

Source: Knife Edge

About the Author

Born: February 8, 1962
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 50

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