Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to. When you have to.

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.

We always seek to find the enemy when in reality, the enemy is really us".

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are

So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings.

My first memory is of the brightness of light — light all around.

I love the place that I live, but I hate the people in charge.

The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true.

Absolutely nothing visible to the eye provides a reason for or even evidence of those terrifying shifts which can in a matter of moments reconstitute a simple path into an extremely complicated one.

If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.