Malorie Blackman Quotes

I'm at my best when there's distance between me and a man.

I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.

Remember we're all in this alone.

I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way.

I've lived so deep under masks, my interior was built to satisfy me alone - I have lived almost 60 years alone, mentally, and quite content to have it so.

I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.

I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture.

I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.

I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself.

I care about people, but if they try to control me, I don't care about them.

I'll leave my house if I need to. Otherwise I'm super comfortable in my own space, in my own company.

I can take care of myself. You're probably never going to know if something bad is happening in my life. I think I was just made that way.

I've never been super close to family. I've never relied on anyone.

He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind - that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.

In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

I never fall apart, because I never fall together.

I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.

I don't like needing anyone for anything.

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.

You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.

I don't live with people, that's why my relationships last. I'm not romantic. Even when I was a teenager if somebody asked if they could hold my hand I'd say, - no, it's not heavy, I can hold it myself, thank you'.

The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.