Noughts And Crosses Book Quotes

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?

Politics gets nastier and more vicious with each passing year. It’s not a parade of ideals or ethics any more. It’s about celebrity, false promises and image.

Don’t put words in my mouth. I’m sick of people putting words in my mouth.

Is this about politics or money?’ ‘What’s the difference?

was hard to speak the truth in a world where lies were currency.

Justice for all – as long as you have pockets deep enough to pay for it.

everyone else got lumped into the WAME category like we were all one big, homogenous mass and not worthy of distinct categorization.

Except that the teachers had totally ignored us, and the Crosses had used any excuse to bump into us and knock our books on the floor, and even the noughts serving in the food hall had made sure they served everyone else in the queue before

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

Contrary to what you obviously believe, I don’t spend my hours thinking up ways to annoy you,’ Troy snaps. ‘Actually, I don’t think of you at all, so could you miss me with your bullshit, please?

In the meantime Greene was offered a job by the British American Tobacco Company in China. Days before he was to sail, a fellow employee told him that they would be able to play noughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe) all the way to China. He promptly resigned rather than face this prospect.