Mal Peet said this quote

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

~ Mal Peet

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

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

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

~ Mal Peet