Elizabeth Wein

“A woman did that.”

— Elizabeth Wein

We are a sensational team

— Elizabeth Wein

“I AM A COWARD.”

— Elizabeth Wein

“FLY THE PLANE, MADDIE.”

— Elizabeth Wein

“We make a sensational team.”

— Elizabeth Wein

Careless talk costs lives.

— Elizabeth Wein

“Kiss me, Hardy”

— Elizabeth Wein

“TELL THE WORLD!”

— Elizabeth Wein

“Och, they suit you, Queenie! Promise me you'll wear them.”

— Elizabeth Wein

It is so hard trying to say what you mean.

— Elizabeth Wein

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

— Elizabeth Wein

It's impossible to stall a Lizzie.

— Elizabeth Wein

“Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God”

— Elizabeth Wein

Please come back soon. The window is always open.

— Elizabeth Wein

“KISS ME, HARDY! Kiss me, QUICK!”

— Elizabeth Wein

“How do you ever hold on to anybody?”

— 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

Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.

— Elizabeth Wein

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

— Elizabeth Wein

There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will

— Elizabeth Wein

“Maddie quickly pulled down the blackout curtains over her bright and vulnerable soul.”

— Elizabeth Wein

“ She has the filthiest tongue of any woman in France. Burn her mouth clean. ”

— Elizabeth Wein

“A poet and a doctor. Maybe I could. This the first thought I have of it. Maybe I could.”

— Elizabeth Wein

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

— Elizabeth Wein

“I ken who you are! You're Strathfearn's granddaughter. Julie Stuart, is it? Och, aye, Lady Julia! Well then, Lady Julia, tell me…

— Elizabeth Wein

Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind…

— Elizabeth Wein

“I am scared of the way they are clinging to the French and Belgian ports, even though they’ve been pushed out of…

— Elizabeth Wein

“She gave a low and delighted chuckle. Her eyes were black as a moonless December night and reflected the electric lights like…

— Elizabeth Wein

Maddie took the top of her egg off. The hot bright yolk was like summer sun breaking through cloud. The first daffodil…

— Elizabeth Wein

“I am no longer afraid of getting old. Indeed I can't believe I ever said anything so stupid. So childish. So offensive…

— Elizabeth Wein

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

“I don't recognise any of my emotions any more. There's no such thing as plain joy or grief. It's horror and relief…

— Elizabeth Wein

Look at me!’ I screeched. ‘Look at me, Amadeus von Linden, you sadistic hypocrite, and watch this time! You’re not questioning me…

— Elizabeth Wein

“And this, even more wonderful and mysterious, is also true: when I read it, when I read what Julie's written, she is…

— Elizabeth Wein

“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.…

— Elizabeth Wein

“But I've never despised myself so much as I did that day - she was so small and - so fierce, so…

— Elizabeth Wein

The very term "turning pages" suggests nonstop action. But I am all about character and beautiful writing. I eat that up like…

— 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…

— Elizabeth Wein

“Jamie let go of me. "Shut your mucky gob, man." He stepped close to our fearless leader in the dark, took hold…

— 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