Mal Peet Quotes

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Mal Peet was a British author renowned for his young adult literature. His works often explore complex interpersonal relationships and profound social issues, earning him a dedicated following.

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Famous Mal Peet Quotes

“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.”

Passion And Betrayal Tamar A Novel Of Espionage

Book:Tamar

Source: Tamar

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

Beauty Ugly Live Forever

Book:The Penalty

Source: The Penalty

“The USA and the Soviet Union each had the ability to annihilate the other. Therefore- in theory at least-neither of these growling superpowers would dare attack the other, because to do so would result in its own immolation.”

United States Of America Nuclear Power Soviet Russia

Book:Life: An Exploded Diagram

Source: Life: An Exploded Diagram

“The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer”

Children Book Three Soccer Sane Bike Three Things

Author:Mal Peet

“So? You think people stop talking to you when they are dead?”

People Thinking Talking

Book:Tamar

Source: Tamar

“Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It isn't. Or wasn't. Nostalgics want to cuddle the past like a puppy. But the past has bloody teeth and bad breath. I look into its mouth like a sorrowing dentist.”

Want Believe Looks Past Kissing Mouths Breaths Nostalgia Teeth Related Bloody Cousin Puppy Dentist Sentimentality Bad Breath

Author:Mal Peet

“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.”

Waiting Heavy Stores Bars Traffic Pauses Liquor Crossings Burgers Liquor Stores Laundromats

Author:Mal Peet

“Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.”

Book Form Variety Fundamentalism Illiteracy

Author:Mal Peet

“Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words; figures make numbers. They had no business getting tangled up together.”

World Helping Together Numbers Figures Letters Make Sense Division Algebra Messed Up Tangled Tidy

Book:Tamar

Source: Tamar

“Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations were not just marks on paper. They were not flat. They were three-dimensional, and you could approach them from different directions, look at them from different ways, stand them on their heads. You could take them apart and put them back together in a variety of shapes, like Legos. I stopped being scared of them.”

Source: Tamar

About the Author

Died: March 2, 2015
Known for: Author
Quotes: 10

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