Noughts and crosses quotes (2)

Question 1

noughts…

Answer 1

even the word is negative. Nothing.nil.zero.nonentities. It wasn’t a name we have chosen for ourselves. It was a name we’d been given. -Callum (ch4)

Question 2

dreams of living in a

Answer 2

world with no more discrimination, no more prejudice, a fair police force, an equal justice system, equality of education, equality of life, a level playing field.
- Callum

Question 3

meggie forced

Answer 3

herself to believe that things would be better for the children, otherwise what was the point of it all ?
- narrator prologue

Question 4

Why was it that when

Answer 4

noughts committed criminal acts, the fact that they were noughts was always pointed out ?-callum

Question 5

I used to comfort myself

Answer 5

with the belief it was only certain individuals with their peculiar notions that spoilt things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it’s not the individuals that are prejudice, but society itself?
-sephy

Question 6

I hadn’t fully realized

Answer 6

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. - sephy

Question 7

People are people.

Answer 7

. We’ll always find a way to mess up, doesn’t matter who’s in charge. - prison guard

Question 7

Love was like an avalanche,

Answer 7

with Sephy and I hand-in-hand racing like hell to get out of it’s way-only, instead of running away from it, we kept running straight towards it.” - Callum

Question 8

The higher you climb,

Answer 8

the further you have to fall.”
- Lynette