Kenneth Oppel Quotes

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.

You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you.

There is a passion in you that scares me.

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

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

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

I believe there is something on this earth that you desire more than anything, and it isn't me.

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.

You two were in a cave together?’ said Miss Simpkins in horror. ‘Yes,’ said Kate, ‘and it was very, very dark.

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

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.

I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.

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.

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.

If anyone comes near you, just scream and run.

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.

You flatter me shamelessly. I like it. Good.

It's the way you look whenever she mentions her fiance. My cat looks like that before he hacks up a hairball.

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.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.

It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.

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

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

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

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.

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.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem, " he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

You two were in a cave together?’ said Miss Simpkins in horror.‘Yes, ’ said Kate, ‘and it was very, very dark.