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He used to say the uglier things are the longer they live, and the ugliest things live forever.

~ Mal Peet

Mal Peet Beauty Live Forever Ugly

I lived through all these times, these great events, without caring very much, concerned with my own aging rather than the world's. Most of us do likewise. History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar

~ Mal Peet

Mal Peet History Life

You do not win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making sure that some poor bastard dies for his.

~ Mal Peet

Mal Peet And Betrayal Passion Tamar A Novel Of Espionage

Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar.

~ Mal Peet

Mal Peet Fiction Historical The Truth Is Dead

He taught me that language was rubbery, plastic. It wasn't, as I thought, something you just use, but something you can play with. Words were made up of little bits that could be shuffled, turned back to front, remixed. They could be tucked and folded into other words to produce unexpected things. It was like cookery, like alchemy. Language hid more than it revealed.

~ Mal Peet

Mal Peet Language Words

Freedom had no place in the Soviet System. Freedom was another word for anarchy, and that wouldn't do at all.

~ Mal Peet

Mal Peet Communism Freedom

Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.

~ Mal Peet

Mal Peet Love Dark Cancer
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