Noughts And Crosses Quotes Flashcards
If nothing else, wasn’t the message…
The message from the good book to live and let live? So how could the crosses call themselves ‘god chosen’ and still treat us the ways the did?—callum(chpt.14)
Why was it when noughts committed criminal acts…
The fact that they were noughts way always pointed out—Sephy (chpt.17)
The higher you…
Climb the further you fall—lynette (17)
Maggie forced…
Herself to believe things would be better for the children, otherwise what was the point of it all?—Narrator(prologue)
There’s more…
To life than us noughts and crosses—Callum (chpt 1)
I hadn’t fully
Realised 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’ were talking out of his or her armpit.
Nought even the word..
Even the word is negative,nothing,nil,zero,nonentities.it wasn’t just a name we’d chosen it was a name we had been given—Callum(14)
Love doesn’t..
Exist ,friendship doesn’t exist—not between a nought and a cross (Callum chapter 79)
I used to..
Comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individual and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for the rest of us nut how many does it take before it’s not the individuals who are prejudiced but society itself? (Sephy chapter 89)
Love was like
An avalanche with Sephy and hand in hand racing like hell to get out of its way- only instead of running away from it, we kept running straight toward
S it (Callum chapter 112)
Dreams of living…
in a world with no discrimination, no more prejudice, a fair police force, an equal justice system,equality of education, equality of life, a level playing field (Callum Chapter 117)
People are…
People are people. We’ll always find a way to mess up, doesn’t matter who’s in charge (jack the prison guard chapter 117)
