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It's like being raised by wolves -- you don't realize you're not one yourself until someone points it out to you. Sometimes it makes me so mad that not everyone treats me just like another wolf.
Elizabeth Wein -
And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any idea what I 'wanted' and so I was chosen, not choosing. There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.
Elizabeth Wein
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For the pleasure of giving, because what's the point of just having? If I give a thing, I remember how happy we both were when I made the gift.
Elizabeth Wein -
I AM A COWARD.
Elizabeth Wein -
I am quite Pan-like in my naïve confidence that he will play by the rules and keep his word.
Elizabeth Wein -
Taran. We go down fighting.
Elizabeth Wein -
Things became more civilized all of a sudden. Coffee does that. Or maybe it is women who do that.
Elizabeth Wein -
Even when you’re flying high and steady, the weight doesn’t go away—it’s just balanced by lift. I have worked pretty hard over the past year and a half to keep my life in balance. But the weight’s still there, waiting for an increase in gravity to pull me earthward again.
Elizabeth Wein
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I realized I would be forced to run away from home if someone tried to arrange a marriage for me. I didn't want to think about it.
Elizabeth Wein -
If you're scared, do something.
Elizabeth Wein -
A poet and a doctor. Maybe I could. This the first thought I have of it. Maybe I could.
Elizabeth Wein -
The quick, sudden terror of exploding bombs is not the same as the never-ending, bone-sapping fear of discovery and capture. It never goes away. There isn’t ever any relief, never the possibility of an ‘All Clear’ siren. You always feel a little bit sick inside, knowing the worst might happen at any moment.
Elizabeth Wein -
You know how sometimes when you come home and you haven't seen a place for so long that it seems unbelievably beautiful, and you want to cry because you love it so much you think it's going to break your heart? I felt like that, too. I am HOME.
Elizabeth Wein -
The fuss made over the chickens at the checkpoints is not to be believed. Unlike me they had their own papers.
Elizabeth Wein
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Maddie quickly pulled down the blackout curtains over her bright and vulnerable soul.
Elizabeth Wein -
Sometimes I feel as if the only thing I can do is write. It helps me think.
Elizabeth Wein -
...unless you were doing them a favor by killing them. Then, you'd let them down if you didn't, if you couldn't make yourself.
Elizabeth Wein -
How do you ever hold on to anybody?
Elizabeth Wein -
Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.
Elizabeth Wein -
Where I fail in accuracy, I hope I make up for it in plausibility.
Elizabeth Wein
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It makes you very uncomfortable to realize that your emotional attachment to something is an indulgence.
Elizabeth Wein -
You know, it set you at war with yourself.
Elizabeth Wein -
It's impossible to stall a Lizzie.
Elizabeth Wein -
Everything I know about passive resistance I learned from Micheline. She always appeared to be doing exactly as she was told, but everything she did took twice as long as it should have.
Elizabeth Wein