He pulls the hood over my head. I try to pull back. I'm not trying to run away. I just want to see her... One last time.

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’ - Lynette McGregor

Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please. Please. If you're up there. Somewhere.

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.

People are people. We'll always find a way to mess up, doesn't matter who's in charge.

Never, ever allow yourself to feel. Feelings kill.

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.

Sometimes the things you're convinced you don't want turn out to be the thing you need the most in this world.

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.

Boys don't cry, but men do.

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.

Sometimes I think my scars are beautiful, but then I remember not everyone shares the same love of art.

Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.

Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit.

Mark my word - A combination airplane and motor car is coming.

I love the whole world of boxing and the sense of community that exists there.

To err is human, but to be paid for it is divine

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.

After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.

Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.

There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor.