I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying … - Malorie Blackman

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Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you're not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give.

Malorie Blackman

I hadn't fully realized 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.

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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.

Come, Feelings, I Love You More, Moments, Stars

Never, ever allow yourself to feel. Feelings kill.

Allow, Feelings, Feels, Kill, Noughts And Crosses

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

Matter, Noughts And Crosses, People, Way

You're a Nought and I'm a Cross and there's nowhere for us to be, nowhere for us to go where we'd be left in peace. . . That's why I started crying. That's why I couldn't stop. For all the things we might've had and all the things we're never going to have.

Cry, Crying, Might, Noughts And Crosses, Nowhere, Stop

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.

Bankers, Committed, Criminals, Cross, Noughts And Crosses, Pointed