“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, quote from Boys Don't Cry
“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, quote from Boys Don't Cry
“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, quote from Boys Don't Cry
“The truth isn't going to bend itself to suit you.”
― Malorie Blackman, quote from Boys Don't Cry
“Boys don't cry, but men do.”
― Malorie Blackman, quote from Boys Don't Cry
“Temptation leans on the doorbell, but opportunity knocks only once.”
― Malorie Blackman, quote from 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?”
― Malorie Blackman, quote from Boys Don't Cry
“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, quote from Boys Don't Cry
“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, quote from Boys Don't Cry
“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, quote from Boys Don't Cry
“Boys don't cry but real men do.”
― Malorie Blackman, quote from Boys Don't Cry
“If you can only have one, which means more to you? Being someone or making a difference
-Lynny”
― Malorie Blackman, quote from Boys Don't Cry
“Tout le monde se fiche des "presque", Dante. Si les " presque" comptaient, toute la population adulte, hormis peut-être une ou deux bonnes sœurs, serait en prison.”
― Malorie Blackman, quote from Boys Don't Cry
Malorie Blackman
Born place: in London, The United Kingdom
Born date February 8, 2018
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“Did you read last nights assignments?" Say "yes'" and get hammered again. Say "no'" and the same thing would happen.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, quote from Twisted
“Umm. Wow. Did it grow? Because it looks bigger."
"Kissin' your red-hot love flower made this stem grow big and hard just for you, baby doll."
AJ managed to meet his eyes. "Love flower?"
"Thought maybe you wanted some kinda sweet-talkin' love words first.”
― Lorelei James, quote from Cowgirl Up and Ride
“What Gibbie made of Mr. Sclater's prayers, either in congregational or family devotion, I am at some loss to imagine. Beside his memories of the direct fervid outpouring and appeal of Janet, in which she seemed to talk face to face with God, they must have seemed to him like the utterances of some curiously constructed wooden automaton, doing its best to pray, without any soul to be saved, any weakness to be made strong, any doubt to be cleared, any hunger to be filled. What can be less like religion than the prayers of a man whose religion is his profession, and who, if he were not "in the church," would probably never pray at all?”
― George MacDonald, quote from Sir Gibbie
“She had heard it was easy to blame others for one's own failures. But that wasn't exactly accurate. It was easy to blame herself for what had happened--hard to live with it.”
― Frank Beddor, quote from ArchEnemy
“In the Banda Islands, ten pounds of nutmeg cost less than one English penny. In London, that same spice sold for more than £2.10s. – a mark-up of a staggering 60,000 per cent. A small sackful was enough to set a man up for life, buying him a gabled dwelling in Holborn and a servant to attend to his needs”
― Giles Milton, quote from Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
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