148 Quotes by Malorie Blackman

The truth isn’t going to bend itself to suit you.

You wanna know the difference between a mosquito and a lawyer? One is a blood-sucking parasite and the other is an insect.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.