Top 100 Mal's Quotes
#1. Le mal de vivre, 'the pain of life.' Qu'll faut bien vivre ... 'that we must live with, or endure.' Vaille que vivre, this is difficult but it is something like 'we must live the life we have. We must soldier on.
Ruth Ozeki
#2. It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so your chances of avoiding cliche are very slim. And you're trying to write fiction, not a match report.
Mal Peet
#3. But he knew, for example, that the things at the ends of his legs were his feet and that if he chose to waggle them, they would waggle. There they went. He knew that if he wanted to he could go to the kitchen and make a cup of tea and not get lost. So he did.
Mal Peet
#4. Technology works best when it facilitates human hope, activism, engagement & intervention.
Mal Fletcher
#5. Writing is a form of licensed madness.
Mal Peet
#6. Mal: We're still flying.
Simon: That's not much.
Mal: It's enough
- from Firefly
Joss Whedon
#7. Celebrity is more than a culture today; it is an industry, complete with fame factories.
Mal Fletcher
#8. If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'
Mal Peet
#9. You let Mal come back for me. After you gave me your vow."
"He broke away," said Tamar.
I lifted a brow. The day Mal could break Tolya's hold was indeed a day of miracles.
Tolya hung his head and heaved his huge shoulders. "Forgive me," he said. "I couldn't be the one to keep him from you.
Leigh Bardugo
#10. Confidence, not paper or digital money, is the key currency in a capitalist system.
Mal Fletcher
#11. I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
Mal Peet
#12. When I was in school, I was beaten every 30 minutes. It never did me any harm except for some psychological mal-adjustments and blurred vision.
John Cleese
#13. A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
Mal Peet
#14. Shit! Those sons a bitches Russians!
Mal Peet
#15. You read card after card until you're talking so fast that it's hard to tell whether you're giving your rebuttal or suffering from a grand mal seizure. And you claim that every case you argue will lead to some kind of apocalypse or nuclear war or worse. Because
Katie A. Nelson
#16. Next time I'll try getting captured. Just to keep things interesting." He tossed Mal a rifle. "Shall we?"
"I can't tell who's who!" I protested.
"We're the side that's hopelessly outnumbered.
Leigh Bardugo
#17. At this very moment, I am suffering - as we say in French, j'ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.
Emil Cioran
#18. The past is a dark house, and we have only torches with dying batteries. It's probably best not to spend too much time in there in case the rotten floor gives way beneath our feet.
Mal Peet
#19. Sex education should be 'relationship education', focusing on how to achieve long-term commitment.
Mal Fletcher
#21. Then Mal let out a loud wailing noise. I hate it when mommy and daddy fight!
Kylie Scott
#22. Mal Peet: "In terms of sustaining a literate and literary culture, the books we put into our children's hands are immeasurably more important than the latest works of high-profile novelists.
M.G. Harris
#23. The boy held her tighter, murmured soft words to lull her to sleep.
"It's only a nightmare," he whispered. "The dreams will stop."
He didn't understand. The dreams were the only place it was safe to use her power now, and she longed for them.
Leigh Bardugo
#24. 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
#25. Ne dites pas trop de mal de vous-meme: on vous croirait. - Don't talk too badly of yourself: they ight believe you.
Andre Maurois
#26. You must marry ugly man," I said. "Very fet." I held my arms out in front of me, indicating a giant belly. "He weeel make you heppy." I heard Mal snort beneath his mask.
Leigh Bardugo
#27. 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.
Mal Peet
#28. People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.
Antony Starr
#29. Marketers reinforce the idea - a false one - that celebrity is available to everyone.
Mal Fletcher
#30. Je ne fais aucun mal en restant ici.
I do no harm by remaining here.
Richard Powers
#31. Pumpkin, stop rubbing your ass against me. We gotta go! I don't have time to do you now. Prioritize, woman.
Kylie Scott
#32. You were meant to be my balance. What I felt for Mal was messy and stubborn and might leave me heartbroken in the end, but it was also human.
Leigh Bardugo
#33. People no longer want to see themselves primarily as consumers, but as activists.
Mal Fletcher
#34. Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
Mal Peet
#35. What Mal wanted, more than anything, was to be just like her mother.
Exactly like her.
Melissa De La Cruz
#36. Progress must not become progressivism, where success is measured only by achieving pragmatic results.
Mal Fletcher
#37. Most of the humans are ineffective creatures. They are the source of pollutions; they waste resources and have no value for the well-being of continuation. They are the malfunctioned and Mal-manufactured products and had to be recycled.
M.F. Moonzajer
#38. Cohesion means respectful diversity, which is about much more than the weak-kneed tolerance.
Mal Fletcher
#39. Zoya yelped. "That little brat just kicked me."
"Smart kid," said Mal.
I lifted a brow. "Smarter than some."
He had the good grace to blush.
Leigh Bardugo
#40. Do you blame me for every mistake I made? For every girl I tumbled? For every dumb thing I've said? Because if we start running tallies on stupid, you know who's going to come out ahead.
Leigh Bardugo
#41. You are all I've ever wanted," he said. "You are the whole of my heart.
Leigh Bardugo
#42. In media terms, the camera always lies, providing an edited version of reality.
Mal Fletcher
#43. As much use as tits on a fish.
Mal Peet
#44. I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
Mal Peet
#45. It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.
Mal Peet
#46. I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
Mal Peet
#47. I don't care if you danced naked on the roof of the Little Palace with him. I love you, Alina, even the part of you that loved him.
Leigh Bardugo
#48. I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting.
Mal Peet
#49. Our greatest resource is the human resource.
Mal Fletcher
#50. Disconnection or alienation from the past has political consequences.
Mal Peet
#51. You were meant for more than me, and I'll die fighting to give it to you. But please don't ask me to pretend it's easy.
Leigh Bardugo
#52. Mal Blum's arrival on the indie scene gives us all hope for the future of smart music.
Melissa Ferrick
#53. ARTHUR: What happened?
ARIADNE: Cobb stayed.
ARTHUR: With Mal?
ARIADNE: No. To find Saito.
Arthur looks out at the water below the bridge.
ARTHUR: He'll be lost...
ARIADNE: No. He'll be alright.
Christopher J. Nolan
#54. It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
Mal Peet
#55. You sound just like the Darkling."
"If you ever have trouble telling us apart, look for the person who isn't torturing you or trying to kill Mal. That will be me.
Leigh Bardugo
#56. What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.
Mal Peet
#57. He tapped the sun over his heart. I came here for you. You're my flag. You're my nation.
Leigh Bardugo
#58. I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
Mal Peet
#59. Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.
Mal Peet
#60. The idea that education can ever be value-neutral is absurd.
Mal Fletcher
#61. Can we get to the cuddling later? I want us ashore before dawn."
Mal sighed. "Eventually, I'm going to punch him."
"I will support you in that endeavor.
Leigh Bardugo
#62. He used to say the uglier things are the longer they live, and the ugliest things live forever.
Mal Peet
#63. How did we go from cocks to this? Because I gotta tell you, cocks are more fun. Especially mine.
S.E. Jakes
#64. Is he an assassin?"
"Ask him yourself", Prophet said, and Tom turned to Mal.
"You kill people?"
Mal signed something, and Prophet glanced over.
"He said, not today, but it's still early
S.E. Jakes
#65. Mal snickered.
"What's so funny?"
"I just pictured the Darkling being cornered by a sweaty duchess trying to have her way with him.
Leigh Bardugo
#66. So is Tolya, for that matter." Tamar's lips twitched. "Would you like to be the one to tell him he can't come?"
Mal considered this. "Maybe we can disguise him as a really big tree.
Leigh Bardugo
#67. Digital gadgets often plug us into an environment that's more cluttered than the real world.
Mal Fletcher
#68. Mal!"
"What?"
"Close the door down there and lock it," David yelled. "Don't you come up here under any circumstances. Not till I tell you it's okay. Understood?"
There was a pause then Mal yelled back. "What if there's a fire?"
"Burn.
Kylie Scott
#69. Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap.
Mal Peet
#70. That's like saying Firefly's Mal was just Han Solo. He wasn't.
Trent Jamieson
#71. Ours is an age that's often obsessed with knowledge at the expense of wisdom.
Mal Fletcher
#72. I can ask for a £25,000 advance, but then you spend a year writing the book, and £25,000 is a loan against sales, and you can easily spend five years earning out. So that's £25,000 for six years.
Mal Peet
#73. It was always gloomy in Mal's room, just as it was always gray and overcast on the island.
Melissa De La Cruz
#74. You kidnapped a girl. That's awesome but illegal, Davie. You're probably going to have to give her back." My hair was lifted and Mal appeared, crouched beside me. "Hey there, child bride. Where's my hello kiss?
Kylie Scott
#75. Education can so easily unseat one's confidence about the truth of the world, Mal noted privately.
Trish Mercer
#76. That's your dad talking, Mal. Your life won't be any less valid, or any less legitimate, if you don't have kids.
Hanya Yanagihara
#77. Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.
Mal Peet
#78. The surprising thing is that so many teenage cancer novels are very good. John Green's 'The Fault in Our Stars,' recently published by Penguin, was voted 'Time Magazine's book of the year in 2012 ahead of Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith.
Mal Peet
#79. I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
Mal Peet
#80. Nothing is more dangerous for society's future than having its young people grow old before their time.
Mal Fletcher
#81. When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.
Mal Peet
#82. Crap. I thought that picture was you.' He pointed.
'That's not me. That's my mother,' Mal said with a sigh.
'Woah, you really do look like her, you know,' Jay said.
'You two could be twins,' Evie agreed.
'That, my friends, is called genetics,' Carlos said with a smile.
Melissa De La Cruz
#83. I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
Mal Peet
#84. Come on, guys," Mal said, dropping the wrapper on the floor. "Let's go find our dorms." She started up a flight of stairs. Carlos, Jay, and Evie followed her. "Oh! Uh, yeah, your dorms are that way, guys," said Doug, pointing in the opposite direction.
Walt Disney Company
#85. Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
Mal Peet
#86. Hy gododin catann hue Hud a lledrith mal wyddan Gaunce ae bellawn wen cabri Varigal don Fincayra Dravia, dravia Fincayra (Talking trees and walking stones, Giants aare the island's bones. While this land our dance still knows, Varigal crowns Fincayra. Live long, live long Fincayra.
T.A. Barron
#87. Cillian's been gone for a while. Like gone, Mal. Won't answer texts or anything."
Mal shrugged again, encouraging the apeshit.
"Mal. Did. You. Kill. Him."
Mal stared at him steadily, then shook his head. Slowly.
"Good.
S.E. Jakes
#88. Yes, I still think of him as that, call him that. It's as real as any of his other names.
Mal Peet
#89. Give him to me," said Anne. "Not everybody wants to French kiss the dog, Mal." The blond, heavily tattooed man grinned, handing the fur baby over. "But he's a great kisser. I taught him myself.
Kylie Scott
#90. I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
Mal Peet
#92. The transformation is the most excruciating pain that you could possibly imagine, so you're mimicking this grand mal seizure while wearing crazy latex make-up. It's so bizarre. It's really out there. The most challenging part is the emotional and physical side of it.
Sam Huntington
#93. In life, if you are refused membership to a club, you get a refund check for dues paid; what happens to your tithes if Jesus denies you entry to God's Paradise? Mal. 3:10.
Felix Wantang
#94. Yoyo said to me recently, 'Love and pain, that's what families are, and they fit together like this'--he slotted the tips of our fingers together--'like cogs.' Then he smiled and put a hand on my swollen belly. 'And what makes these cogs turn is hope, of course.
Mal Peet
#95. I can explain to you why algebra is useful. But that is not what algebra is really for.' He moved his fingers gently on my temples. 'It's to keep what is in here healthy. PE for the head. And the great thing is you can do it sitting down.
Mal Peet
#96. I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead.
Mal Peet
#97. I can tell you categorically that any mal-treatment of any detainees by U.S. forces or coalition forces is totally unacceptable - that our orders have and will continue to be that we will treat everyone in our charge with - humanely and with respect.
Peter Pace
#98. It's still the same heart, Mal. It's still yours.
Leigh Bardugo
#99. Mal did as he was told without a backward glance at any of them. Tom did see him hold up his middle finger as he left.
He guessed it was kind of like his gang sign. Or his message to the entire world.
S.E. Jakes
#100. It's a nonsense because, as we all know, there are brilliant 15-year-old readers and hopeless 50-year-old readers. All that categorisation is a matter of bookshop shelves rather than literary categories, I think.
Mal Peet
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