I'm just trying to spare you hurt. Her love for Konrad is like the foundation of the earth."
"The earth sometimes shifts.
You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you.
Kenneth OppelStichwörter: konrad
I believe there is something on this earth that you desire more than anything, and it isn't me.
Kenneth OppelYou see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori
Kenneth OppelStichwörter: medicine
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.
Kenneth OppelTraveling at night toward the stars, I thought yet again how very far away they were, and how you could travel your whole lifetime and never reach even the closest one. But even if you knew you couldn’t have something, it didn’t stop you wanting it. I wondered if Kate was to be my star, and I’d spend my life gazing upon her but never reaching her.
Kenneth OppelStichwörter: starclimber
They're having a liaison!' the woman in the big hat said to her friend. 'They've found love in a jail cell...'
'There's no liaison!' I said angrily.
Oh, hello, Matt,' she said, not looking altogether thrilled to see me. 'This is James Sanderson.'
'Pleased to meet you,' I lied.
'I really don't see what all the fuss is about, Sir Hugh,' said Kate with a polite smile. 'As a man of science you should know that urine is sterile. It's only when it's left to stand that it accumulates bacteria. So, if I were you, Sir Hugh, I'd eat my soup quickly.'
Kenneth Oppel 'What have you done?' I whispered.
She swallowed, and the guilt in her eyes was extinguished by a flare of defiance.
'This,' she said, 'is my ticket to outer space.'
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