Elizabeth Wein

Careless talk costs lives.

— Elizabeth Wein

“We make a sensational team.”

— Elizabeth Wein

“TELL THE WORLD!”

— Elizabeth Wein

“Kiss me, Hardy”

— Elizabeth Wein

“I AM A COWARD.”

— Elizabeth Wein

“A woman did that.”

— Elizabeth Wein

We are a sensational team

— Elizabeth Wein

“FLY THE PLANE, MADDIE.”

— Elizabeth Wein

“Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.”

— Elizabeth Wein

“Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.”

— Elizabeth Wein

“High time they put the RAF in kilts.”

— Elizabeth Wein

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

— Elizabeth Wein

“If you're scared, do something.”

— Elizabeth Wein

“It's very modern. Very gamine. You look like a jazz singer.”

— Elizabeth Wein

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

— Elizabeth Wein

“I seem to be good at asking for trouble.”

— Elizabeth Wein

“Godless as I am, I pray she's got away with it. It's like ripples in a pond, isn't it? It doesn't stop…

— Elizabeth Wein

If you show this devious little liar one atom's worth of compassion I will have you shot.

— Elizabeth Wein

I sometimes think young people are not given nearly enough credit for their ability to appreciate literary flourish.

— Elizabeth Wein

“The anticipation of what they will do to you is every bit as sickening in a dream as when it is really…

— Elizabeth Wein

But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I…

— Elizabeth Wein

“Patriotism is not enough—I must have no hatred or bitterness for anyone.” She”

— Elizabeth Wein

“If I am very lucky - I mean if I am clever about it - I will get myself shot. Here, soon.”

— Elizabeth Wein

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

— Elizabeth Wein

“Her own hair was a glory of copper fire that morning, shining like a whisky still, long and loose in gentle flames…

— Elizabeth Wein

“I am in the Special Operations Executive because I can speak French and German and am good at making up stories, and…

— Elizabeth Wein

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…

— Elizabeth Wein

There were no route maps posted on the walls, but a Wonderland-style sign commanding, 'If you know where you are, then please…

— Elizabeth Wein

It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code,…

— Elizabeth Wein

“I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the…

— Elizabeth Wein

“For the pleasure of giving, because what's the point of just having? If I give a thing, I remember how happy we…

— Elizabeth Wein

“I realized I would be forced to run away from home if someone tried to arrange a marriage for me. I didn't…

— Elizabeth Wein

“People are complicated. There is so much more to everybody than you realize. You see someone in school everyday, or at work,…

— Elizabeth Wein

“Writing to you like this makes me feel that you are still alive. It’s an illusion I’ve noticed before—words on a page…

— Elizabeth Wein

“Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary was beheaded, the…

— Elizabeth Wein

It never occurred to him that now he was looking at his master, at the one person in all the world who…

— Elizabeth Wein

I tend not to attempt to describe pain. I don't feel I can comprehend or re-create the personal suffering of others, so…

— Elizabeth Wein

“How does she do it? She makes it sound like she is so cut up to be giving them this information, and…

— Elizabeth Wein

“Ellen looked around the room with an odd expression, for the first few seconds not taking in the collection spread across the…

— Elizabeth Wein

“What's strange about the whole thing is that although it's riddled with nonsense, altogether it's true - Julie's told our story, mine…

— Elizabeth Wein