Top 100 Blackman's Quotes

#1. 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.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #5378
#2. 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.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #14756
#3. South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated.

Honor Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #31921
#4. The life of music is bigger than all of us.

Cindy Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #32679
#5. A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #74218
#6. It was because I was scared. Scared of standing out, scared of being invisible. Scared of seeming too big, scared of being too small.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #84628
#7. Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please.
Please.
If you're up there.
Somewhere.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #98060
#8. The single yellow diamond stud he wore in his left ear twinkled like a giggle in the morning sunlight.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #107233
#9. We were comfort kissing, that's all. We wrapped our arms around each other for solace. Bear hugging. Squeezing the life out of each other as if we were trying to merge together. When at last we loosened our grip, in a strange way we were both more calm. Physically, at least. Not mentally.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #115760
#10. 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.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #131738
#11. I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #145693
#12. Shahrazad Ali's The Blackman's Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman.

Bell Hooks

Blackman's Quotes #175188
#13. 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.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #178450
#14. And things go unsaid soon get forgotten

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #181656
#15. In fact, I'll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part.

Honor Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #188715
#16. Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale.

Honor Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #222119
#17. 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.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #267318
#18. Always deliver more in 'perceived value' than you take in cash value.

Jeff Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #273107
#19. There are no such things as friends. Just acquaintances who haven't let you down yet.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #281917
#20. My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.

Honor Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #288953
#21. If you're naive - which means immature, inexperienced, or a bit thick - you get eaten alive.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #300831
#22. A film of my life would never happen!

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #315095
#23. 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.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #315202
#24. What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #344023
#25. Even if we had gone away together when I wanted us to, we would've been together for a year, maybe two. But sooner or later, other people would've found a way to wedge us apart.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #349351
#26. Books and knowledge don't make for a safe world. Just the opposite. Books and knowledge are facets of the truth and the truth can be very dangerous.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #349534
#27. What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #349989
#28. 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.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #381768
#29. Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #386295
#30. I suppose I've always lived in my own head. I didn't discover boys till sixth form. Then suddenly it was, 'Oh! Boys!'

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #406362
#31. Like a window had been thrown open inside my head and my heart, where there had been closed shutters before.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #416410
#32. 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.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #416509
#33. Noughts... Even the word was negative. Nothing. Nil. Zero. Nonentities. It wasn't a name we'd chosen for ourselves. It was a name we'd been given.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #416896
#34. Someone's writing down your mistakes, someone's documenting your downfall.

Nicole Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #419800
#35. Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #431643
#36. Boys don't cry but real men do.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #434709
#37. She glanced again toward Vincent. "And who is he again?"
Vincent grinned. "I'm Vincent Blackman of the SpiderSly Company. Mirren and I are going to sleep together; we just have to get through this bullshit of her father's first.

Erin Kellison

Blackman's Quotes #441365
#38. In a television interview, I said that diversity in our children's books should include the adventures of disabled children, travellers and gipsies, LGBT teens, different cultures, classes, colours, religions. It shouldn't be a token gesture, nor do such stories need to be 'issue-based'.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #441831
#39. I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #458006
#40. Five years off my life ...
I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #466446
#41. There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #470923
#42. Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.'

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #551574
#43. 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.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #555190
#44. He thought astrology was a load of bosh! Didn't believe in stars and planets telling his fortune or anyone else's.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #560690
#45. California: the valley of the sun. It would be just his luck that she was here, where the daylight hours seemed to last longer than anywhere else. Where, even if he found her, he'd be bound to staying in the shadows as she walked in the light.

Rose Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #565440
#46. Sometimes the things you're convinced you don't want turn out to be the thing you need the most in this world.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #576566
#47. I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #587833
#48. Sephy told me once that I was the only one who could make her cry. I've never told this to her, or to anyone else for the matter, but it works the other way round as well.
- callum mcgregor/noughts&crosses

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #619756
#49. To my fellow Crosses, keep the faith.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #633625
#50. You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #637445
#51. He loved to draw. Animals pouncing mostly. And trees. Always lone trees in black landscapes.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #671861
#52. If charisma were rain, Blackman would be a desert.

Jerry Lawler

Blackman's Quotes #676888
#53. No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward.

Honor Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #685450
#54. Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #696270
#55. Whether you're in bed or in court, everybody gets off.

Nicole Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #696318
#56. 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.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #698375
#57. And all we are waiting for is something worth waiting for.

Nicole Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #707540
#58. That just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But don't you believe them.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #733127
#59. 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.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #754371
#60. When I wrote 'Noughts and Crosses', I was halfway through it when I realised this was very like 'Romeo and Juliet' ... as long as you make it your own, and put your own spin on it, I think it's brilliant to use other great work to find your own voice.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #763952
#61. But faith is so easy to hold onto when you don't need it. And so hard to find when you do.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #771054
#62. I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #784477
#63. No-one understood. No-one. Least of all - me.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #786068
#64. 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.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #790285
#65. Passion is your positive attitude in a world of negativity.

Jeff Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #794884
#66. I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #820894
#67. I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head.

Honor Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #847914
#68. So really there's almost no point in planning anything out at all, because life is so infinitely complex that you can almost never just take a straight road from A to B without going via the whole rest of the alphabet first, and all because a butterfly happened to flap its wings in Thailand

Andrew Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #855937
#69. Was that all love did for you? Made you give up and give in? Left you open to pain and hurt?

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #857723
#70. What was it about the differences in others that scared some people so much?

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #862250
#71. I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax.

Honor Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #884472
#72. You're not fifteen any more. You're not the idealistic kid who thought that, deep down, somewhere, somehow, in some way, life had to be fair.
- Callum McGregor

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #891295
#73. How dare you both sit there and criticize and condemn me?

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #909994
#74. You can't judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than re actions. - Loring Blackman

Tiffanie DeBartolo

Blackman's Quotes #925785
#75. When did we stop being people, being human?

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #949757
#76. If you keep asking for what is best, God will give you very good chance to achieve it, even if you don't believe in God.

Bill Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #957332
#77. People are people. We'll always find a way to mess up, doesn't matter who's in charge.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #962189
#78. The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #976809
#79. I believe each individual can have a say and make a difference.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #994568
#80. Apart from anything else, I find boots are too hot except in wintry weather. At home I usually wear a sweater, shirt and slacks.

Honor Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #1004802
#81. We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #1014416
#82. 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

Blackman's Quotes #1030456
#83. When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #1035722
#84. Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #1043905
#85. I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #1048676
#86. Boys don't cry, but men do.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #1065786
#87. Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #1096915
#88. I can't stop thinking about what might have been ... I can't stop imagining the two of us together. My body burns at the thought of it. Sephy and I might've been together for ever.
- Callum McGregor

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #1100257
#89. I'm very fond of Norfolk. My husband came from there and the kids love it. Devon is beautiful, too.

Honor Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #1102996
#90. 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.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #1122670
#91. I don't believe in regrets. There are a few things I'd do differently, but I can't go back in time and redo them, however much I might wish to. All I can do is learn from past mistakes and move forward.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #1122928
#92. A yawning hole deep inside me was begging to be filled up with words and thoughts and ideas and facts and fictions.
Callum McGregor

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #1123658
#93. I mean you're cute, but not that cute. Would Rhea really risk life in a maximum security detention unit just so that she could press herself against your manly body?

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #1145871
#94. 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.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #1166649
#95. 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

Blackman's Quotes #1169370
#96. 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

Blackman's Quotes #1176821
#97. The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.

Nicole Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #1178190
#98. 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.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #1185670
#99. I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #1191284
#100. Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.

Malorie Blackman

Blackman's Quotes #1206766

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