Quotes from Philip Reeve

ran on blindly into the blind dark.

Nova shrugged, looking as if she had personally invented shrugging and hadn't quite sorted out the fine details yet.

High on its flanks is a complex of caves where the kings and heroes of the Mountain Kingdoms have been laid to rest, their bodies preserved by the sub-zero temperatures and thin, high-altitude air.

I always wondered how it would feel when it was over,' said Malik eventually. 'Turns out it doesn't feel like anything, much.

The covering of insects is not solid,' said Nova cheerfully. 'Plenty of air gets in.' 'What do you know? You don't need to breathe! They'll get into my mouth.' 'No they w--' she said, and broke off spluttering. 'Pleugh, eugh!

What's your plan?" "There isn't one," said Hester. "I'm just making it up as I go along.

Maybe everything needs to change.

Masgard drew his sword and swished it to and fro, practising flashy fencing moves as he advanced on her. When he was a few feet away Hester lunged forward and jabbed her blade at his shoulder. She didn't think she'd done much damage, but Masgard dropped his sword and put his hands to the wound and slithered in the snow and fell over.

When her gun was empty she put it down and killed the last man with a typewriter, the carriage-return bell jingling cheerfully while she smashed in his skull.

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

The closest she had been to them was certain summer evenings when they had gone for picnics in the magravine's ice-barge -- simple family affairs, just Freya and Mama and Papa and about seventy servants and courtiers

If you strike me down, the paperwork will be more time-consuming that you can possibly imagine.

Friends don't leave friends to wash dishes for yetis.

My name," the boy said importantly, "is Stacey de Lacey." "But that's a girl's name!" blurted Oliver. Stacey de Lacey's face turned a dark shade of red. "Silence!" he shouted. "Stacey is one of those names that can be for a boy or a girl! Like Hilary, or Leslie, or...um... Anyway...!

Jag har aldrig varit förtjust i småbarn. Ruggiga små bestar som läcker i båda ändarna, och inte har de någon respekt för lergods heller.

Freya told me Caul has dreams about this place every night," said Tom. "He dreams about Uncle's voice, whispering to him the way it used to when he was a child. Why would Uncle keep talking to them all, over the speakers, even while they were asleep?

Ni ska bli en del av historien, eftersom historia är allt ni bryr er om.

Livet är rörelse.

Everything was ruined! Pennyroyal didn't just know what she'd done, he'd written a book about it! There were paintings! Even if Pennyroyal had twisted the facts, the truth was still there, in black and white on the pages of his book. Hester Shaw had sold Anchorage to the Huntsmen. And when Tom found out …

They were beautiful all right, but it was a huge, inhuman beauty...

It struck her as odd and faintly sinister, this lonely city creeping north in silence.

We'll be all right!" she said. "We'll be all right now! Let's go up and find out whom we've hitched a lift with!

Uranus] is a world of mists, " said Mother wistfully. "It has no surface, you know; the wet gases of its sky thicken imperceptibly into the wetter ocean, and the liquid ocean thickens similarly into a solid core. It is a place of soft and ceaseless main, and eternal mist. Not unlike Scotland.

Han log blekt, som om han egentligen aldrig sett något le men hade läst en bok om hur man gjorde.