Kenneth Oppel Quotes

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“There is a passion in you that scares me.”

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

“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.”