Top 10 Mal Peet Quotes (2024 Update)

Mal Peet Quote: “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.”

1. “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 Quote: “So? You think people stop talking to you when they are dead?”

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

Mal Peet Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

Mal Peet Quote: “As much use as tits on a fish.”

4. “As much use as tits on a fish.”

Mal Peet Quote: “Philip Murdstone sat considering the phrase ‘depths of despair’. Its plural implied that there were, even now, levels of it he had yet to experience.”

5. “Philip Murdstone sat considering the phrase ‘depths of despair’. Its plural implied that there were, even now, levels of it he had yet to experience.”

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

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

Mal Peet Quote: “Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar.”

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

Mal Peet Quote: “Fluke me, Murdstone.”

8. “Fluke me, Murdstone.”

Mal Peet Quote: “What I’m trying to explain to my sulky little cousin is that we are doing things backwards. We are going from the end of the river to the start of the river. And endings are always sad. We are doing the sad bit first, which is wrong. Strange.”

9. “What I’m trying to explain to my sulky little cousin is that we are doing things backwards. We are going from the end of the river to the start of the river. And endings are always sad. We are doing the sad bit first, which is wrong. Strange.”

Mal Peet Quote: “But when I stood there and saw that the end of the journey was as vague and unreachable as the beginning had been, I realized I didn’t care. No, more than that: I was relieved. I didn’t want an ending, didn’t want to get to the full stop of our story.”

10. “But when I stood there and saw that the end of the journey was as vague and unreachable as the beginning had been, I realized I didn’t care. No, more than that: I was relieved. I didn’t want an ending, didn’t want to get to the full stop of our story.”

Mal Peet Quote: “Gone are the days when you simply write a jolly good book and wait for the queues to form. Readers need to be friended, darling. They need to be subscribers. They need to be followers.”

11. “Gone are the days when you simply write a jolly good book and wait for the queues to form. Readers need to be friended, darling. They need to be subscribers. They need to be followers.”

Mal Peet Quote: “Fundamentalism – of any variety – is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.”

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

Mal Peet Quote: “The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer.”

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

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