Kenneth Oppel
Kenneth Oppel
Kenneth Oppelis a Canadian children's writer...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth31 August 1967
CountryCanada
hands storm faces
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.
moving pale-skin purple
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.
feelings doubt relief
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.
one-direction flying together
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.
said walks stunned
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.
literature dry nutrition
You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.
dark hair auburn
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.
dark two missing
You two were in a cave together?’ said Miss Simpkins in horror. ‘Yes,’ said Kate, ‘and it was very, very dark.
want affliction terrible
I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.
dream games world
The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.
blessed medicine failing
You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori
passion scare
There is a passion in you that scares me.
moving waste meat
The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!
efficient fallen flew great love passenger reasons replaced safe time wrote
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.