Skybreaker Kenneth Oppel Quotes

#1. They needed to share one secret after another with a beautiful woman, to peel away layer after layer, mask after mask, and still find themselves worshiped.

Denis Johnson

#2. I prefer the word aviatrix. It has more zing to it."
"It's very zingy," I agreed.

Kenneth Oppel

#3. You flatter me shamelessly. I like it. Good.

Kenneth Oppel

#4. 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.

Kenneth Oppel

#5. The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

Seneca The Younger

#7. The man has fucked me in every sense of the word.

J.M. Darhower

#8. It's important for all people, and not just people in bands, to speak out on social justice issues. That means journalists or plumbers have just as much of a responsibility to do that as artists.

Serj Tankian

#9. I leaned from my friends in school. I had lots of friends; yet I was very indrawn.

Frederick Lenz

#10. 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.

Kenneth Oppel

#11. You've no fear of heights," puffed the girl.
"None," I said.
"I've heard that about you.

Kenneth Oppel

#12. 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.

Kenneth Oppel

#13. I raised my hands, trying to shush her.
"Don't shush me," she said, eyes blazing. "I hate being shushed.

Kenneth Oppel

#14. Sadness is a vice.

Gustave Flaubert

#15. My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And she'd come over and pick us boys up, and we would go to the Nazarene church. And back then, that was about as close to heaven as I ever got, because just the time to be able to spend with her, and she was very, very religious.

John Mellencamp

#16. 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.

Kenneth Oppel

#17. You're seventeen. You're supposed to be dealing with school and hormones and dim-witted parents. You're supposed to be finding out who you are as a person." "But I already know who I am," Valkyrie said. "I'm a world-breaker.

Derek Landy

#18. This way," she said, veering toward the roof's edge. "Can you jump?"
"Oh, I can jump!"
"Then jump!

Kenneth Oppel

#19. It all depends with how much judgment and knowledge the thing's done.

Leo Tolstoy

#20. 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.

Kenneth Oppel