Elizabeth E. Wein Quotes

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It never occurred to him that now he was looking at his master, at the one person in all the world who held his fate right between her palms - me, in patched hand-me-downs and untrimmed hair and idiot smile - and that my hatred for him is pure and black and unforgiving. And that I don't believe in God, but if I did, if I did, it would be the God of Moses, angry and demanding and OUT FOR REVENGE...

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Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.

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Look at me!' I screeched. 'Look at me, Amadeus von Linden, you sadistic hypocrite, and watch this time! You're not questioning me now, this isn't your work, I'm not an enemy agent spewing wireless code! I'm just a minging Scots slag screaming insults at your daughter! So enjoy yourself and watch! Think of Isolde! Think of Isolde and watch!

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How did you ever get here, Maddie Brodatt?" "'Second to the right, and then straight on till morning,'" she answered promptly-it did feel like Neverland. "Crikey, am I so obviously Peter Pan?" Maddie laughed. "The Lost Boys give it away." Jamie studied his hands. "Mother keeps the windows open in all our bedrooms while we're gone, like Mrs. Darling, just in case we come flying home when she's not expecting us.

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There is only one reason I did not go down in flames over the Angers, and that is because I knew I had Julie in the back. Would never have had the presence of mind to put that fire out if I hadn't been trying to save her life.

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Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.

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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.

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It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it — both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code — just feminine code.

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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.

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There's glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will

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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.

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God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.

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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.

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Fight with realistic hope, not to destroy all the world's wrong, but to renew its good.

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One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark.

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Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on.

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Oh Julie, wouldn't I know if you were dead? Wouldn't I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?

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Kiss me, Hardy!' Weren't those Nelson's last words at the Battle of Trafalgar? Don't cry. We're still alive and we make a sensational team.

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There were no route maps posted on the walls, but a Wonderland-style sign commanding, 'If you know where you are, then please tell others.

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But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up.

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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.

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Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.

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