Elizabeth Wein Quotes
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The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.
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Equality comes in different forms, and it is a lot harder being a girl in Ethiopia than it was in Pennsylvania.
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She has the filthiest tongue of any woman in France. Burn her mouth clean.
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And you know, it was like I was breathing my own self back into me to say these word,s to remember that these things existed--the green trees of the eastern woodland at home in North America, their strong and supple branches, sunlight through the trees.
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That is a terrifically intimate thing, you know? Letting a stranger light your cigarette. Leaning forward so he can hold a flame to your lips. Pausing to breathe in before you pull back again.
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Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.
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Incredible. It is just incredible that you can notice something like that when your face is so cold you can't feel it anymore, and you know perfectly well you are surrounded by death, and the only way to stay alive is to endure the howling wind and hold your course. And still the sky is beautiful.
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But I've never despised myself so much as I did that day - she was so small and - so fierce, so beautiful, it was like breaking a hawk's wings, stopping up a clear spring with bricks - digging up roses to make space to park your tank. Pointless and ugly.
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One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark.
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It is so hard trying to say what you mean.
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Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law.
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Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God.
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These are just stories, you know. They are part of what we are, but they are not the real thing. All this year I’ve been thinking, What would White Raven do? And today, every time I thought it, I just didn’t care what White Raven would do. So today I’ve just done what I would do. I’ve just done what I think is right. I’m not going to stop making up stories. But I’m thinking now that they aren’t just for pretending to be someone else, someone more exciting, someone braver than you really are. They are not always jut a maze to get lost in so you can run away from life. They can just as well be maps to help you navigate.
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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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Fight with realistic hope, not to destroy all the world's wrong, but to renew its good.
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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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Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.
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Which would you rather have––an unlimited supply of Chanel No. 5, or freedom?
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More than anything else, I think, Maddie went to war on behalf of the Holy Island seals.
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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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Punishment and revenge are two different things.
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I am no longer afraid of getting old. Indeed I can't believe I ever said anything so stupid. So childish. So offensive and arrogant. But mainly, so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old.
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I really would like to catapult myself back there in time and kick my own teeth in.
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Hope is treacherous, but how can you live without it?