Noughts And Crosses Callum Quotes

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.

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.

But remember this if nothing else: I love you more than there are words or stars. I love you more than there are thoughts and feelings. I love you more than there are seconds or moments gone or to come. I love you.

When a chance for real happiness comes by, grab it with both hands and devour it. If it lasts five minutes or five lifetimes, it's still worth it.

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.

His eyes were a lot older than fifteen.” Persephone Hadley(,regarding Callum McGregor)

And round and round and round. Why couldn't I get past the letter? Like poison id had seeped into every image and every memory I kept of Callum, polluting them until I couldn't tell which was real and what was just wishful thinking any more. Until at last, I was forced to face the inescapable fact that, for whatever reason, Callum had written the letter.

A yawning hole deep inside me was begging to be filled up with words and thoughts and ideas and facts and fictions.” Callum McGregor

If only Callum and I didn’t have to sneak and creep around.

For once I didn't look away immediately. I forced myself to meet her contemptuous gaze. I allowed myself be swept away by it, to drown in it - the way I'd done so many times before. The way I would willingly do again. Because at least she was here to hate me. At least I had that. I watched my daughter conjure up the filthiest look in her vast arsenal before she turned away with complete disdain. I didn't mind that so much. It meant I could watch her, drink her in without her protest. Look at our daughter, Callum. Isn't she beautiful, so very beautiful? She laughs like me, but when she smiles... Oh Callum, when she smiles, it's picnics in Celebration Park and sunsets on our beach and our very first kiss all over again. When Callie Rose smiles at me, she lights up my life. When Callie Rose smiles at me.

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

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

Don't you think I'm beautiful, Callum?' Lynette whispered. 'yes' I replied truthfully 'very.

blankers!’ I winced at the venom in Dad’s voice. And I’d never heard him refer to noughts as blankers before. Blankers … What a horrible word! A nasty word. My friend Callum wasn’t a blanker. He wasn’t …

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

Don't hate me for wanting to change the way things are. I believe in you, Callum. You can change the world, I know you can. But not like this, I'm not trying to be magnanimous or patronizing. I genuinely want to help but...

Maybe we are in different places …’ ‘No, we aren’t. Not if we don’t want to be, we aren’t.’ I willed Callum to look at me. ‘I wish it was that simple.’ ‘It is.

Sometimes I wish there was just you and me and no one else in the whole world" - Callum

That’s just the point,’ Callum said with sudden bitterness. ‘This place is like the whole world and the whole world is like this place. So where could I go?

myself. I’d felt ashamed of myself a lot recently, and, if I’m honest, part of me resented Callum for it. I didn’t want to feel guilty for just being, but that’s how he was beginning to make me feel.

You’re all at least a year behind and …’ ‘And whose fault is that?’ Callum said with erupting bitterness. ‘Until a few years ago we were only allowed to be educated up to the age of fourteen – and in noughts-only schools at that, which don’t have a quarter of the money or resources that your schools have.