Elizabeth Wein Quotes

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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.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Long, Worry, World

  Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.119, Egmont UK

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

  Elizabeth Wein

  Know How, Knows

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.257, Egmont UK

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• You can't just sit in a corner weeping or you'll die.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Weeping, Dies, Corners

  Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.219, Egmont UK

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

  Elizabeth Wein

  Fighting, World, Realistic

  Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.45, Egmont UK

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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.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Years, Mind, Insane

  Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.41, Egmont UK

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• It's an illusion I've noticed before-- words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only lasts while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Fall, Oxygen, Paper

  Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.51, Egmont UK

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• The very term "turning pages" suggests nonstop action. But I am all about character and beautiful writing. I eat that up like popcorn. Whether a book is action-packed or not, all I need are well-written prose and quirky, fabulous characters to keep me going.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Hope is treacherous, but how can you live without it?

  Elizabeth Wein

  Treacherous

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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?

  Elizabeth Wein

  Heart, Electricity, Feels

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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.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Moving, People, Needs

  Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.198, Egmont UK

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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.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Military, Thinking, Resistance

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.122, Egmont UK

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• Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Fighting, Faces, Execution

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• 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

  Ideas, Honor, Rooms

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.127, Egmont UK

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• I tend not to attempt to describe pain. I don't feel I can comprehend or re-create the personal suffering of others, so I simply try to tell what happened, or what I imagine happened. I also think it helps to let the reader fill in a lot of the blanks. Melodrama is patronizing. With a straightforward statement, readers can figure out for themselves what's going on.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Pain, Thinking, Suffering

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• 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

  Beautiful, Moving, Hands

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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.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Revenge, Believe, Fate

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• A part of me will always be unflyable, stuck in the climb.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Stuck, Climbs

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.295, Egmont UK

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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.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Lying, Broken, Rose

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.295, Egmont UK

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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.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Lying, Ironic, Telling Lies

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.180, Egmont UK

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• You can come back to friendship. You can let it drop, for five years or ten years, and come back to it.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Love, Being In Love, Your Best Friend

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.64, Egmont UK

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• Please come back soon. The window is always open.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Window, Please

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• It is so hard trying to say what you mean.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Mean, Trying, Hard

  Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.29, Egmont UK

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• 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

  Summer, Clouds, Eggs

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.110, Egmont UK

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

  Elizabeth Wein

  Incredibles, Slender, Thread

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.212, Egmont UK

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