Kenneth Oppel

Author

1967-08-31

Quotes by Kenneth Oppel

• 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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• Individuality: ten. Cautiousness: three. Combativeness: nine. She looked over and gave me a wink. Well, what did you expect from a pirate's daughter? Hope: eight. Amativeness. What's that?Kate acutally blushed. I think it has something to do with your attractiveness to the opposite sex.Ten, said Nadira, smiling modestly. (Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel)

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• 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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• IMBECILE! the chef shouted. Next time why don't you just put your whole HAND in the food, hey? Yes, your whole hand, or maybe your FACE! I arrange the food on plates with care, are you understanding what I am telling you? It is part of the art form of cooking, yes? A lovely plate of food is a thing of beauty! And then you, NUMBSKULL, come along and put your fat greasy FINGERS all over my plate, and SHAKE the plate, and move my food all around the plate until it looks like pigs' vomit!Chef Vlad! I cried out in delight.

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

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• Individuality: ten. Cautiousness: three. Combativeness: nine. She looked over and gave me a wink. Well, what did you expect from a pirate's daughter? Hope: eight. Amativeness. What's that?Kate acutally blushed. I think it has something to do with your attractiveness to the opposite sex.Ten, said Nadira, smiling modestly. (Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel)

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• 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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• 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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• IMBECILE! the chef shouted. Next time why don't you just put your whole HAND in the food, hey? Yes, your whole hand, or maybe your FACE! I arrange the food on plates with care, are you understanding what I am telling you? It is part of the art form of cooking, yes? A lovely plate of food is a thing of beauty! And then you, NUMBSKULL, come along and put your fat greasy FINGERS all over my plate, and SHAKE the plate, and move my food all around the plate until it looks like pigs' vomit!Chef Vlad! I cried out in delight.

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

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• 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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• 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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• Flying into a storm, even its outer edges, did not seem like a good idea to me. And this was no ordinary tempest. Everyone on the bridge knew what it was: the Devil's Fist, a near-eternal typhoon that migrated about the North Indian basin year-round. She was infamous, and earned her name by striking airships out of the sky.

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