Mal Peet Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.