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-dimension…

- Mal Peet

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

- Mal Peet

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

- 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 numb…

- 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 p…

- Mal Peet

Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than th…

- Mal Peet

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

- Mal Peet