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1. "It's like being in love, discovering your best friend." ~ Elizabeth Wein
2. "KISS ME, HARDY! Kiss me, QUICK!" ~ Elizabeth Wein
3. "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
4. "FLY THE PLANE, MADDIE." ~ Elizabeth Wein
5. "I AM A COWARD." ~ Elizabeth Wein
6. "You can't just sit in a corner weeping or you'll die." ~ Elizabeth Wein
7. "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
8. "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
9. "It was wonderful flirting with him, all the razor-edged literary banter, like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. A battle of wit, and a test, too." ~ Elizabeth Wein
10. "Please come back soon. The window is always open." ~ Elizabeth Wein
11. "A whore, we've established that, filthy, it goes without saying, but whatever else the hell I am, I AM NOT ENGLISH." ~ Elizabeth Wein
12. "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." ~ Elizabeth Wein
13. "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
14. "Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution." ~ Elizabeth Wein
15. "We are a sensational team" ~ Elizabeth Wein
16. "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
17. "One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark." ~ Elizabeth Wein
18. "Hope is treacherous, but how can you live without it?" ~ Elizabeth Wein
19. "It is so hard trying to say what you mean." ~ Elizabeth Wein
20. "Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do." ~ Elizabeth Wein
21. "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!" ~ Elizabeth Wein
22. "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." ~ Elizabeth Wein
23. "It's awful, telling it like this, isn't it? As though we didn't know the ending. As though it could have another ending. It's like watching Romeo drink poison. Every time you see it you get fooled into thinking his girlfriend might wake up and stop him. Every single time you see it you want to shout, 'You stupid ass, just wait a minute,' and she'll open her eyes! 'Oi, you, you twat, open your eyes, wake up! Don't die this time!' But they always do." ~ Elizabeth Wein
24. "I'M SCOTTISH!" ~ Elizabeth Wein
25. "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." ~ Elizabeth Wein
26. "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
27. "Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary was beheaded, the people who were watching saw her skirts moving about and they thought her headless body was trying to get itself to its feet. But the movement turned out to be her dog, which she had carried to the block with her, hidden in her skirts. Mary Stuart is supposed to have faced her execution with grace and courage (she wore a scarlet chemise to suggest she was being martyred), but I don't think she could have been so brave if she had not secretly been holding tight to her Skye terrier, feeling his warm, silky fur against her trembling skin." ~ Elizabeth Wein
28. "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
29. "These trials aren't about revenge. They're about justice. Don't you want justice, Rose Justice?" ~ Elizabeth Wein
30. "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." ~ Elizabeth Wein
31. "Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos." ~ Elizabeth Wein
32. "Jamie let go of me. "Shut your mucky gob, man." He stepped close to our fearless leader in the dark, took hold of his jacket by the collar, and in a dead quiet voice that had gone dangerously Scots, threatened heatedly, "Talk like that again wi' these brave lassies listenin' an' Ah'll tear the filthy English tongue frae yer heid, so Ah will." ~ Elizabeth Wein
33. "High time they put the RAF in kilts." ~ Elizabeth Wein
34. "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." ~ Elizabeth Wein
35. "Queenie was devoted to careless name-dropping, scattering the details of her privileged upbringing without the faintest hint of modesty or embarrassment (though, after a while Maddie began to realize she only did it with people she liked or people she detested--those who didn't mind and those she didn't care about--anyone in between, or who might have been offended, she was more cautious with)." ~ Elizabeth Wein
36. "The fuss made over the chickens at the checkpoints is not to be believed. Unlike me they had their own papers." ~ Elizabeth Wein
37. "Careless talk costs lives." ~ Elizabeth Wein
38. "If you show this devious little liar one atom's worth of compassion I will have you shot." ~ Elizabeth Wein
39. "God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something." ~ Elizabeth Wein
40. "I felt like one who wants to trap and cage a little bird, and after years of waiting and luring and baiting finds that she must do no more than hold out her hand, and the finch lands on her finger and does not fly. You scarcely dare to move. It rests on your hand whole and free, foolishly trusting and infinitely courageous. It will never be more beautiful." ~ Elizabeth Wein
41. "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
42. "Must stop. This ink is amazing, it really doesn't smear, even when you cry on it" ~ Elizabeth Wein
43. "She has the filthiest tongue of any woman in France. Burn her mouth clean." ~ Elizabeth Wein
44. "Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God" ~ Elizabeth Wein
45. "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
46. "Las personas somos complicadas. Hay mucho más en nuestro interior de lo que se percibe a simple vista." ~ Elizabeth Wein
47. "Maddie quickly pulled down the blackout curtains over her bright and vulnerable soul." ~ Elizabeth Wein
48. "TELL THE WORLD!" ~ Elizabeth Wein
49. "She gave me a dirty look. Then she broke into the bubbly champagne laugh. She turned and ran, limping but steady. She laughed over he shoulder, letting out the line as I held the kite above my head. "Run with me, Rose," she cried." ~ Elizabeth Wein
50. "A poet and a doctor. Maybe I could.This the first thought I have of it. Maybe I could." ~ Elizabeth Wein
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They say when one door shuts, another one opens. But they haven't been living at my house. Most of the doors I open seem to have something scary crouched behind them, anyway."
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