“ 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
“ Freedom had no place in the Soviet System. Freedom was another word for anarchy, and that wouldn't do at all. Mal Peet
“ 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… Mal Peet
“ Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar. 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
“ 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 u… Mal Peet
“ He used to say the uglier things are the longer they live, and the ugliest things live forever. Mal Peet
