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Noughts & Crosses

Noughts & Crosses is a series by English author Malorie Blackman of young adult novels, including three novellas, set in a fictional dystopia.

“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.”

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

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“And things go unsaid soon get forgotten”

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

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“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…”

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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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“Love was like an avalanche, with Sephy and I hand-in-hand racing like hell to get out of it's way-only, instead of running away from it, we kept running straight towards it.”

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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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“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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“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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