It's like being in love, discovering your best friend. — Elizabeth Wein Being in love Copy Share Image
God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something. — Elizabeth Wein Acrobatics Copy Share Image
“It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in… — Elizabeth Wein Historical Copy Share Image
“It makes you very uncomfortable to realize that your emotional attachment to something is an indulgence.” — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“It is possible there are some things you want so badly that you will change your life to make them happen.” — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution. — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“Se parece a enamorarse, saber que acabas de encontrar a tu mejor amiga.” — Elizabeth Wein Amor Copy Share Image
“The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark. — Elizabeth Wein Dark Copy Share Image
I think as readers we put ourselves in the protagonist's place because we want to be like that person. That's why sometimes… — Elizabeth Wein Books Copy Share Image
“Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
But a part of me lies buried in lace and roses on a riverbank in France-a part of me is broken off… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“Von Linden really should know me well enough by now to realise that I am not going to face my execution without… — Elizabeth Wein Linden Copy Share Image
Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without… — Elizabeth Wein Dignity Copy Share Image
“I, of course, took the opportunity to interpose with pigheaded Wallace pride, 'I am not English, you ignorant Jerry bastard, I am… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
It's an illusion I've noticed before-- words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“Queenie, herself again, took hold of Maddie’s hand and squeezed it tightly. She walked all the way back across the airfield without… — Elizabeth Wein Flying Copy Share Image
“Queenie was devoted to careless name-dropping, scattering the details of her privileged upbringing without the faintest hint of modesty or embarrassment (though,… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
He just put his hand through the bulkhead, exactly as she'd done, and squeezed my shoulder. He has very strong fingers. And… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“Róża laughed until she broke off choking. 'Oh, so now that I've got a decent coat I'm supposed to stay in the… — Elizabeth Wein Ptsd Copy Share Image
“I don't believe for a minute-that we wouldn't have become friends somehow-that an unexploded bomb wouldn't have gone off and blown us… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“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 Foul language Copy Share Image
“But more often than not the missing face has been sucked into the engines of the Nazi death machine, like an unlucky… — Elizabeth Wein Death Copy Share Image
“Jamie let go of me. "Shut your mucky gob, man." He stepped close to our fearless leader in the dark, took hold… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“ She has the filthiest tongue of any woman in France. Burn her mouth clean. ” — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“Maddie quickly pulled down the blackout curtains over her bright and vulnerable soul.” — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“A poet and a doctor. Maybe I could. This the first thought I have of it. Maybe I could.” — Elizabeth Wein Medicine Copy Share Image
Fight with realistic hope, not to destroy all the world's wrong, but to renew its good. — Elizabeth Wein Fight Copy Share Image
“The fuss made over the chickens at the checkpoints is not to be believed. Unlike me they had their own papers.” — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“Patriotism is not enough—I must have no hatred or bitterness for anyone.” — Elizabeth Wein Anger Copy Share Image
