I poo poo the chit.' The attendant looked stunned. 'You cannot poo-poo the chit!' I do.' Kate said solemnly. 'I do poo-poo.'… — Kenneth Oppel Said Copy Share Image
You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori — Kenneth Oppel Blessed Copy Share Image
The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing! — Kenneth Oppel Meat Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I wrote 'Airborn' was that I'd fallen in love with the great passenger airships which flew in the… — Kenneth Oppel Airplane Copy Share Image
You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious. — Kenneth Oppel Books Copy Share Image
“I glanced over at him warily. "Don't start getting any ideas about her. The last time someone took a fancy to Kate,… — Kenneth Oppel Last time Copy Share Image
Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to… — Kenneth Oppel Anything and everything Copy Share Image
“Nadira gave Kate a long hard look. "Mr. Slater has the ship. Mr. Cruse has the coordinates. I have the key. What… — Kenneth Oppel Airborn Copy Share Image
“Traveling at night toward the stars, I thought yet again how very far away they were, and how you could travel your… — Kenneth Oppel Astronomy Copy Share Image
“If she can bite a vulture, she can jump a crack. ~Victor Frankenstein” — Kenneth Oppel Frankenstein Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about… — Kenneth Oppel About Copy Share Image
It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself. — Kenneth Oppel Moments Copy Share Image
“Behind us I saw the water, still welling up from the tunnel, curving round in a frothing serpentine torrent to plunge down… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you. — Kenneth Oppel Fire Copy Share Image
“Konrad had gone to the New World without me, and no matter how fast I ran westward, how close I kept to… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
When I'd written my 'Silverwing' series - I'd imbued the bats with full human awareness and vocabulary. — Kenneth Oppel Awareness Copy Share Image
I could not help staring back, for they made quite a contrast: Kate's pale skin and elegant purple suit, Nadira's dusky skin… — Kenneth Oppel Clash Copy Share Image
“We all knew no respectable physician would remove my fingers just for the asking, and we had no time anyway.” — Kenneth Oppel Medicine Copy Share Image
“I felt like I was seeing Shannon through a new lens, undistracted by Jennifer's nuclear glow. I could see how pretty she… — Kenneth Oppel Beauty Copy Share Image
I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a… — Kenneth Oppel Always Copy Share Image
I turned around and headed back to the stairwell, planning to go downstairs and buy a chocolate bar from the vending machine.… — Kenneth Oppel Bars Copy Share Image
“I stared at Kate in disbelief. "I know, I know," she said, walking toward me, hands raised as if to calm a… — Kenneth Oppel Airborn Copy Share Image
“Marry me." I said. She lowered her teacup, shaking slightly, to the saucer. "Aren't you going to get down on one knee?"… — Kenneth Oppel Good thing Copy Share Image