73 Kenneth Oppel Quotes on Starclimber, Skybreaker and This Dark Endeavor - Quotes.pub

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Kate gave a disdainful wave of her hand. “I poo-poo the chit.” The attendant looked stunned. “You cannot poo-poo the chit!” “I do,” she said solemnly. “I do poo-poo.

Starclimber Quotes

It indicates very poor breeding,” Miss Simpkins informed me primly. “We are not dogs or horses,” I insisted hotly. “None of us gets to choose how we’re born, it’s what we make of ourselves afterward.

Skybreaker Quotes

Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent.

Illness Quotes Newborn Quotes Parent Quotes Parenthood Quotes Parenting Quotes Parents Quotes

I tried to lure sleep to me, but she slowly shook her raven tresses and would not come back.

Airborn Quotes

Mr. Cruse, how high would you like to fly?"A smile soared across my face."As high as I possibly can.

Starclimber Quotes

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.

Starclimber Quotes

'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.'

Starclimber Quotes

'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.'

Starclimber Quotes

Oh, hello, Matt,' she said, not looking altogether thrilled to see me. 'This is James Sanderson.''Pleased to meet you,' I lied.

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.

Starclimber Quotes

They’re eating liked starved apes,” Baz muttered as he swished past me with more food. “Haven’t they had enough yet?” he wondered a minute later when we passed again. “Keep your hands well clear of their forks,” he warned me as we pirouetted round each other at the dumbwaiter. “I was nearly stabbed clean through. They’ll be eating the cutlery soon!” “And us if we’re not quick enough,” I added. Baz guffawed then coughed to cover it up.

Airborn Quotes

Madame, may I see your dog’s chit, please,

Starclimber Quotes

A masterpiece of vagueness.

Starclimber Quotes

I couldn't imagine such men at rest, their faces smooth and innocent despite the wickedness of their hearts.

Airborn Quotes

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.

Beauty Quotes / Half Brother Quotes

I whirled to see the snake springing up from the ferns and bouncing towards us, fast. This time we turned and ran. Every time I looked around, the snake was still there. I wanted to laugh and scream at the same time. The little creature was ridiculous. It was terrifying, and it was also gaining on us.

Airborn Quotes

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.

The Nest Quotes

I'm glad being shipwrecked appeals to you.""Captain Walken made a point of avoiding that word." "Well, he was trying to keep everyone jolly, wasn't he. It's no good having everyone running around screaming and eating each other.""I wouldn't run around screaming," she said. "I can see eating someone in a pinch, though. If it really came down to it, I mean.""I don't doubt it.""Come on, Matt Cruse, don't you find it just a bit exciting, being here?""No."She looked at me as if I'd suggested we stop breathing for a few hours.

Airborn Quotes Kate Quotes Matt Quotes

The sky pulsed with stars. Some people say it makes them lonesome when they stare up at the night sky. I can't imagine why. There's no shortage of company. By now there's not a constellation I can't name. Orion. Lupus. Serpens. Hercules. Draco. My father taught me all of their stories. So when I look up I see a galaxy of adventures and heroes and villains, all jostling together and trying to outdo one another, and I sometimes want to tell them to hush up and not distract me with their chatter. I've glimpsed all the stars ever discovered by astronomers, and plenty that haven't been.

Stars Quotes / Airborn Quotes

Is there anything you can't do, Mr. Cruse?" she said."I can't sing," I said.

Airborn Quotes

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.

Airborn Quotes

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.

This Dark Endeavor Quotes

Never climb a tree in a long dress," Kate panted, coming up behind me."I'll remember that," I said.

Airborn Quotes Kate Quotes Matt Quotes

I took [Kate's] hand in mine, and felt her fingers squeeze back. And I thought: home. It took me completely by surprise. But I suppose that once you bid farewell to your first home, you're always looking for another—that place where you can feel happy and strong and at your best. For three years I'd called the Aurora home. But now that I lived in Paris, it was not the city itself that was home. It was Kate.

Happiness Quotes Love Quotes / Home Quotes Skybreaker Quotes

The world should have been in Technicolour, but seemed more like black and white.

Half Brother Quotes Inspirational quotes Quotes

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.

This Dark Endeavor Quotes

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,

This Dark Endeavor Quotes

We all knew no respectable physician would remove my fingers just for the asking, and we had no time anyway.

This Dark Endeavor Quotes Victor Quotes

I give you my wings.

Darkwing Quotes Dying words Quotes Flying Quotes Flying spirit Quotes

Traveling at night toward the stars, I thought yet again how very far away they were, and how you could travel your whole lifetime and never reach even the closest one. But even if you knew you couldn’t have something, it didn’t stop you wanting it. I wondered if Kate was to be my star, and I’d spend my life gazing upon her but never reaching her.

Starclimber Quotes

None of us gets to choose how we're born, it's what we make of ourselves afterwards.

Choices Quotes / Born Quotes Skybreaker Quotes

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.

Airborn Quotes Kate Quotes Matt Quotes Nadira Quotes Oppel Quotes Skybreaker Quotes

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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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.

Starclimber Quotes

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.

This Dark Endeavor Quotes

If she can bite a vulture, she can jump a crack.~Victor Frankenstein

Frankenstein Quotes Heroine Quotes Oppel Quotes Strong heroine Quotes This Dark Endeavor Quotes

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.

Airborn Quotes Kate Quotes Matt Quotes Nadira Quotes Oppel Quotes Skybreaker Quotes

No, indeed, 'pig' is very expressive. And an excellent description of a fellow who flirts with his brother's beloved.

Elizabeth Quotes This Dark Endeavor Quotes

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.

Airborn Quotes Kate Quotes Matt Quotes Nadira Quotes Oppel Quotes Skybreaker Quotes

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.

Such Wicked Intent Quotes

I'm just trying to spare you hurt. Her love for Konrad is like the foundation of the earth." "The earth sometimes shifts.

Henry Quotes Such Wicked Intent Quotes Victor Quotes

His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him.

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.

Depressive Quotes Half Brother Quotes Real life Quotes

The baby was warm against my chest. I knew I was broken too. I wasn't like other people. I was scared and weird and anxious and sad lots of the time, and I didn't know why. My parents thought I was abnormal, I was pretty sure. They said I wasn't, but you don't get sent to a therapist if you're normal.Sometimes we really aren't supposed to be the way we are. It's not good for us. And people don't like it. You've got to change. You've got to try harder and do deep breathing and maybe one day take pills and learn tricks so you can pretend to be more like other people. Normal people. But maybe Vanessa was right, and all those other people were broken too in their own ways. Maybe we all spent too much time pretending we weren't.

Illness Quotes Mental illness Quotes Normal Quotes Ocd Quotes Perfect Quotes Perfection Quotes

Honestly," she sighed, "I don't know what kind of life we'll have together, with me always flying off in one direction and you in the other."I smiled. "It's a good thing the world's round," I said.

Everyone watched, wondering if this could be the same lunatic who'd nearly berthed his ornithopter in the restaurant. I swallowed, for it seemed he was headed straight for my table. He pulled off his helmet and a mass of dark auburn hair spilled out. Off came the goggles, and I was looking at the beaming face of Kate de Vries.

Airborn Quotes Kate Quotes Lunatic Quotes Matt Quotes Skybreaker Quotes

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.

Starclimber Quotes

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

Airborn Quotes Kate Quotes Matt Quotes Oppel Quotes Skybreaker Quotes

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

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If you were closer, I'd slap you," she said. "Let me help," I replied, and stepped closer. She promptly slapped me, which surprised me only a little. We glared at each other in the near dark, and then she looked away. "I'm sorry I slapped you," she said. "That's all right. I quite enjoyed it.

Elizabeth Quotes Such Wicked Intent Quotes Victor Quotes

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