Top 66 Kenneth Oppel Quotes
#1. You've no fear of heights," puffed the girl.
"None," I said.
"I've heard that about you.
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#2. Nadira gave Kate a long hard look. "Mr. Slater has the ship. Mr. Cruse has the coordinates. I have the key. What exactly do you have?"
For the first time Kate looked flustered.
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#4. I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel.
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#5. It's the way you look whenever she mentions her fiance. My cat looks like that before he hacks up a hairball.
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#6. No, indeed, 'pig' is very expressive. And an excellent description of a fellow who flirts with his brother's beloved.
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#7. We did it!" I said, feeling limp with relief. "It actually worked!"
Dr. Turgenev rubbed his forehead. "I had very big doubts."
"Big doubts?" I said weakly.
The Russian scientist shrugged. "I am pessimist," he said.
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#8. Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent.
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#9. I believe there is something on this earth that you desire more than anything, and it isn't me.
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#10. This way," she said, veering toward the roof's edge. "Can you jump?"
"Oh, I can jump!"
"Then jump!
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#12. You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori
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#13. When I'd written my 'Silverwing' series - I'd imbued the bats with full human awareness and vocabulary.
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#14. I glanced over at him warily. "Don't start getting any ideas about her. The last time someone took a fancy to Kate, things went very badly for him."
"What happened?"
"He got shot."
"You shot him?"
"Well, no, but he did get shot.
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#15. The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.
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#16. None of us gets to choose how we're born, it's what we make of ourselves afterwards.
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#17. One of the reasons I wrote 'Airborn' was that I'd fallen in love with the great passenger airships which flew in the '20s and '30s. Their time was short-lived. They were frail, they tended to crash; and they could never be as fast, safe and efficient as the airplanes that replaced them.
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#18. Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.
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#19. Let me get you all some punch," I said.
"You're leaving us?" said Isabel, sounding panicky.
"I'll be right back," I promised. "If anyone comes near you, just scream and run.
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#20. Why do you need to fly so much?" she asked.
"If I don't, it'll catch up with me." The words just came out.
"What will?"
I took my hands from my face, panting. I stared out at the storm.
"Unhappiness.
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#21. We all knew no respectable physician would remove my fingers just for the asking, and we had no time anyway.
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#22. Yes' is a very powerful word. It's like opening a door. It's like fanning a flame. It's the most powerful word in the world.
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#23. 'I really don't see what all the fuss is about, Sir Hugh,' said Kate with a polite smile. 'As a man of science you should know that urine is sterile. It's only when it's left to stand that it accumulates bacteria. So, if I were you, Sir Hugh, I'd eat my soup quickly.'
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#24. I turned around and headed back to the stairwell, planning to go downstairs and buy a chocolate bar from the vending machine. Maybe it would fall on me and end my misery.
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#25. I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a writer has always been to tell a good story and give my readers a good time.
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#26. They're having a liaison!' the woman in the big hat said to her friend. 'They've found love in a jail cell ... '
'There's no liaison!' I said angrily.
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#28. There's fancy math to explain all this, of course. ( ... ) But when you saw the Aurora, saw her floating and rising, you forget all about the match and just stared.
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#29. Is there anything you can't do, Mr. Cruse?" she said.
"I can't sing," I said.
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#30. If she can bite a vulture, she can jump a crack.
~Victor Frankenstein
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#31. What do you make of him?" I asked Elizabeth.
"Apart from the fact he's clearly insane?"
"What can he learn from Konrad's blood?" I said. "Except that he needs it in his body to live!"
"There is something ghoulish about it."
"He's like a vampyre,
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#32. I raised my hands, trying to shush her.
"Don't shush me," she said, eyes blazing. "I hate being shushed.
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#33. I tried to lure sleep to me, but she slowly shook her raven tresses and would not come back.
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#35. It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.
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#37. I know you pretty well."
"Better than anyone I think."
I smiled. Her compliment was like a gift itself, only more precious than anything that could be bought.
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#38. I had no idea there'd be so many Sherpas aboard!" exclaimed Miss Simpkins.
"I'm not a Sherpa," Nadira said. "I'm a gypsy."
"Oh, my goodness!" said the chaperone.
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#39. I stared at Kate in disbelief.
"I know, I know," she said, walking toward me, hands raised as if to calm a dangerous beast.
"She's not coming," I said.
"She's coming."
"She can't."
"She's coming.
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#40. Mr. Cruse, how high would you like to fly?"
A smile soared across my face.
"As high as I possibly can.
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#41. But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.
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#42. I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.
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#43. We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been sublimated in sports, photorealistic video games, film and literature.
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#44. I felt like I was seeing Shannon through a new lens, undistracted by Jennifer's nuclear glow. I could see how pretty she really was, how kind her eyes were.
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#45. Oh, hello, Matt,' she said, not looking altogether thrilled to see me. 'This is James Sanderson.'
'Pleased to meet you,' I lied.
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#46. Beyond the lake, over the mountains, the clouds were illuminated from within by a brilliant stutter of lightning, and in that split second Elizabeth and I were etched against the sky.
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#47. I'm just trying to spare you hurt. Her love for Konrad is like the foundation of the earth."
"The earth sometimes shifts.
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#48. You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.
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#49. The more I worked on 'Half Brother,' the more it seemed to me the story was really about love in all its possible forms - how and why we decide to bestow it, or withdraw it; how we decide what is more worthy of being loved, and what is less. We are masters of conditional love.
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#50. 'What have you done?' I whispered.
She swallowed, and the guilt in her eyes was extinguished by a flare of defiance.
'This,' she said, 'is my ticket to outer space.'
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#51. You two were in a cave together?' said Miss Simpkins in horror.
'Yes,' said Kate, 'and it was very, very dark.
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#52. Behind us I saw the water, still welling up from the tunnel, curving round in a frothing serpentine torrent to plunge down the other descending passage. For a moment we all sat there and watched, numb and exhausted.
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#53. His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him.
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#54. Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim.
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#55. The world should have been in Technicolour, but seemed more like black and white.
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#56. I could not help staring back, for they made quite a contrast: Kate's pale skin and elegant purple suit, Nadira's dusky skin and exotic fiery sari.
"Do we clash?" Nadira said dryly.
"We certainly do," said Kate. "Would you like me to move?"
"Don't trouble yourself.
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#58. I poo poo the chit.'
The attendant looked stunned. 'You cannot poo-poo the chit!'
I do.' Kate said solemnly. 'I do poo-poo.'
We'll walk.
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#59. The noise kept up and did not stop. My head rang. I saw Shepherd take the chewing gum from his mouth, break it into two, and stick it in both ears. He kept working.
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#60. I prefer the word aviatrix. It has more zing to it."
"It's very zingy," I agreed.
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#61. The seed for my novel 'Half Brother' was planted in my mind over twenty years ago, but didn't germinate until late 2007 when I came across the obituary for Washoe, an extraordinary chimpanzee who had learned over 250 words of American Sign Language.
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#62. You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you.
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#63. It's somewhat disquieting that the same parents and educators who are horrified by the notion of child soldiers have bestowed upon 'The Hunger Games' a double mantle of critical praise and global bestsellerdom.
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#64. Never climb a tree in a long dress," Kate panted, coming up behind me.
"I'll remember that," I said.
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#65. The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!
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#66. Konrad had gone to the New World without me, and no matter how fast I ran westward, how close I kept to the sunsets, I would never catch up with him now.
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