Philip Reeve

“Uncle knows best.”

— Philip Reeve

“Its a town eat town world”

— Philip Reeve

I don't travel much; I just stay at home and imagine weird places.

— Philip Reeve

“Uncle knows best. -All the Lost Boys”

— Philip Reeve

An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!

— Philip Reeve

But we're alive, and together, and we're going to be all right.

— Philip Reeve

“That's impossible,' said Fever, Engineerishly.”

— Philip Reeve

The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.

— Philip Reeve

Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the…

— Philip Reeve

But boys will be boys, even the ones who are only girls dressed up: That's one of the rules of the world.

— Philip Reeve

“It will be all right, Tom. Wherever we go now, whatever becomes of us, we'll be together, and it will all be…

— Philip Reeve

“I felt a little like saying 'Eeeeeeeeek!' myself, but seeing Myrtle so afraid reminded me that I was British, and must be…

— Philip Reeve

I had no idea I'd end up writing four books when I completed 'Mortal Engines.' I didn't even think it would find…

— Philip Reeve

“And isn't that what all boys want and all men, too? Just to be taken seriously?”

— Philip Reeve

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a…

— Philip Reeve

“Outside, Melliphant's ear flattened itself against the wood of the door like a pale slug.”

— Philip Reeve

“The Scriven men wore stack-heeled boots and pearl-studded evening coats; the ladies in their vast skirts looked like mythical creatures, half woman,…

— Philip Reeve

“Personally, he much preferred to get them chatting. People were generally much less inclined to want to kill you once you’d chatted…

— Philip Reeve

Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on 'Doctor Who'…

— Philip Reeve

“We must find you a new boyfriend, Wavey had kept telling her, but what if a girlfriend was what Fever needed? She…

— Philip Reeve

“I don't think we are cut out to be evil sorcerers, brothers," said Fentongoose. "If we were truly evil, we would not…

— Philip Reeve

“The closest she had been to them was certain summer evenings when they had gone for picnics in the magravine's ice-barge --…

— Philip Reeve

“High on its flanks is a complex of caves where the kings and heroes of the Mountain Kingdoms have been laid to…

— Philip Reeve

You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "But we're alive…

— Philip Reeve

“Oenone had found the chapel by accident, and was not certain what kept drawing her back to it. She was not a…

— Philip Reeve

“In the old days, I'd never given a thought to the future, and not much to the past. I'd lived simply in…

— Philip Reeve

“If only Myrtle would pay attention to the Boy's Own Journal, Blackwood's Magazine, etc., she would know that these creatures were Threls,…

— Philip Reeve

“Waste not, want not’ is the Engineers’ motto, Miss. Properly processed human ordure makes very useful fuel for our city’s engines. And…

— Philip Reeve

“Boo-Boo Pennyroyal did not like her male and female slaves to mingle. In the operas that she adored, young people brought together…

— Philip Reeve

My first encounter with science fiction was reading the work of H.G. Wells when I was nine or ten, and I don't…

— Philip Reeve

“But the look on his face was so strange that I hadn't the heart to take his story away from him. He…

— Philip Reeve

Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's…

— Philip Reeve

It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out…

— Philip Reeve

“The old curator of ceramics lay near the door, looking indignant, as if death was a silly modern fad that he rather…

— Philip Reeve

he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America

— Philip Reeve

I was fascinated by 'The Lord of the Rings' from about the age of eight, and that lasted well into my teens.

— Philip Reeve

“Then, beaming at Tom and Caul, he topped up their glasses with more wine to wash down the pack of half-truths and…

— Philip Reeve

“And now he was dead, his soul fled down to the Sunless Country and his body lying cold in the cold mud,…

— Philip Reeve

“I am forever being captured these days. It isn't like me at all. You must think me such a silly princess.”

— Philip Reeve

Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening,…

— Philip Reeve