Quotes by Kenneth Oppel - Page 1

There is a passion in you that scares me.
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Passion
Scare
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If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.
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Compass
Heart
My Heart
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You flatter me shamelessly. I like it. Good.
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If anyone comes near you, just scream and run.
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Running
Ifs
Scream
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Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim.
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Slim
Realistically
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The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.
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Dream
Games
Hunger
World
Hunger Games
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I prefer the word aviatrix. It has more zing to it." "It's very zingy," I agreed.
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His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him.
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Cheer
Enthusiastic
Speech
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It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.
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Moments
Stranger
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You've no fear of heights," puffed the girl. "None," I said. "I've heard that about you.
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Girl
Height
No Fear
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You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you.
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Fire
Glimpse
Littles
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I believe there is something on this earth that you desire more than anything, and it isn't me.
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Believe
Desire
Earth
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You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori
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Blessed
Failing
Medicine
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When I'd written my 'Silverwing' series - I'd imbued the bats with full human awareness and vocabulary.
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Bats
Series
Vocabulary
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I raised my hands, trying to shush her. "Don't shush me," she said, eyes blazing. "I hate being shushed.
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Eye
Hands
Hate
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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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Running
Chance
Rivers
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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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Cat
Looks
Way
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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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Meat
Moving
Waste
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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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Dark
Missing
Two
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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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Dry
Literature
Nutrition
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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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Affliction
Cursed
Terrible
Want
Me Everything Something
Streak
Puritanical
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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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Kate
Said
Walks
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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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Compliment
Thinking
Wells
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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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Bars
Chocolate
Fall
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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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Running
Leaving
Scream
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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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Anything And Everything
Might
World
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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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Entertaining
Good Art
Pleasure
Time Art Good
Chief
Art Time Good
Readers
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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.
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Flying
One Direction
Together
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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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Hands
Needs
Storm
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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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Sports
Appetite
Film
Games
Literature
Torture
Video
Public
Watch
Times
Flock
Mortal
Recent
Video Games
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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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Children
Critical
Games
Hunger
Notion
Parent
Praise
Bestowed
Double
Educators
Horrified
Hunger Games
Mantle
Soldiers
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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.
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Doubt
Feelings
Relief
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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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Extraordinary
Obituary
Planted
Seed
Sign
Twenty
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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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Bats
Completing
Humans
Beds
Clothing
Slept
Struck
Wonderfully
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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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Moving
Pale Skin
Purple
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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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Conditional
Conditional Love
Masters
Worthy
Bestow
Forms
Love Me Why
Seemed
Withdraw
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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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Airplane
Crash
Efficient
Flew
Frail
Replaced
Short Lived
Love Time Great
Passenger
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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.
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Dark
Littles
Sorry
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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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Devil
Edges
Flying
Indian
Infamous
Ordinary
Sky
Storm
Tempest
Year Round
Bridge
Earned
Fist
Good Idea
North
Outer
Striking
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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.
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Dark
Goggles
Hair
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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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Art
Moving
Pigs
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