Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either.

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.

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

The closer journalists came to great issues, the more vulnerable they felt.

Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.

Don't confuse wealth with success.

O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.

I was assigned a Taliban "minder" who followed me everywhere. But he couldn't follow me into homes where there were women, so I took photos inside people's homes.

The cross is the place where, and the means by which, God loved us to the uttermost.

I'm a darned good listener.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people s hands, people used to be shocked because they d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

I hate the word "eclectic" .I'm a classicist, and I like comfort. Lots of books, lots of artwork, pieces of family furniture, and newer upholstery.