Mal Peet Quotes

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

The US military and the CIA got busy working on plans for the conquest of Cuba. And it would be no Mickey Mouse boat operation this time. This time, Fidel Castro and his hairy henchmen would find out what it felt like to have American fighter-bombers drop the fires of hell on their heads three hundred times a day.

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

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

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.