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Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.
Elizabeth Wein
Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.
Elizabeth Wein
We are a sensational team.
Elizabeth Wein
Fight with realistic hope, not to destroy all the world's wrong, but to renew its good.
Elizabeth Wein
Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.
Elizabeth Wein
Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on.
Elizabeth Wein
Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?
Elizabeth Wein
Maddie took the top of her egg off. The hot bright yolk was like summer sun breaking through cloud. The first daffodil in the snow. A gold sovereign wrapped in a white silk handkerchief. She dipped her spoon in it and licked it.
Elizabeth Wein
He just put his hand through the bulkhead, exactly as she'd done, and squeezed my shoulder. He has very strong fingers. And he kept his hand there the whole way home, even when he was reading the map and giving me headings. So I am not flying alone now after all.
Elizabeth Wein
A part of me will always be unflyable, stuck in the climb.
Elizabeth Wein
You can't just sit in a corner weeping or you'll die.
Elizabeth Wein
It's impossible to stall a Lizzie.
Elizabeth Wein
There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will
Elizabeth Wein
Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.
Elizabeth Wein
But a part of me lies buried in lace and roses on a riverbank in France-a part of me is broken off forever. A part of me will be unflyable, stuck in the climb.
Elizabeth Wein
Careless talk costs lives.
Elizabeth Wein
One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark.
Elizabeth Wein
I think as readers we put ourselves in the protagonist's place because we want to be like that person. That's why sometimes we don't like protagonists who aren't all that nice we want to relate to the protagonist.
Elizabeth Wein
Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.
Elizabeth Wein
But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.
Elizabeth Wein
