Elizabeth E. Wein Short Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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