Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos. — Elizabeth Wein Balloons 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
“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
There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will — 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
“ She has the filthiest tongue of any woman in France. Burn her mouth clean. ” — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
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 Alive Copy Share Image
“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 Adulthood Copy Share Image
It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code,… — Elizabeth Wein Code Copy Share Image
“I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the… — Elizabeth Wein Foreign language Copy Share Image
“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 Generosity Copy Share Image
I think that what I do is a form of pathetic fallacy, the literary trope in which nature is in sympathy with… — Elizabeth Wein Character Copy Share Image
“It's like being raised by wolves -- you don't realize you're not one yourself until someone points it out to you. Sometimes… — Elizabeth Wein Bisexual-characters Copy Share Image
She whispered, 'C'etait la Verite?' Was that Verity? Or perhaps she just meant, Was that the truth? Was it true? Did any… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“It’s not desperation—there is something inhuman in it. That is what I find so creepy. Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
How did you ever get here, Maddie Brodatt?" "'Second to the right, and then straight on till morning,'" she answered promptly-it did… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“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 Death Copy Share Image
The very term "turning pages" suggests nonstop action. But I am all about character and beautiful writing. I eat that up like… — Elizabeth Wein Action Copy Share Image
“But I've never despised myself so much as I did that day - she was so small and - so fierce, so… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“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 Foul language Copy Share Image
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 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
“Maddie quickly pulled down the blackout curtains over her bright and vulnerable soul.” — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“It was wonderful flirting with him, all the razor-edged literary banter, like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. A battle… — Elizabeth Wein Banter Copy Share Image
“...unless you were doing them a favor by killing them. Then, you'd let them down if you didn't , if you couldn't… — Elizabeth Wein Fears Copy Share Image
“She gave me a dirty look. Then she broke into the bubbly champagne laugh. She turned and ran, limping but steady. She… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“Maddie held her lightly, thinking she would let go when her friend stopped crying. But she cried for so long that Maddie… — Elizabeth Wein Friendship Copy Share Image
There is only one reason I did not go down in flames over the Angers, and that is because I knew I… — Elizabeth Wein Fire Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Getting old Copy Share Image
“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 Emotions Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Maddie took the top of her egg off. The hot bright yolk was like summer sun breaking through cloud. The first daffodil… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“She gave a low and delighted chuckle. Her eyes were black as a moonless December night and reflected the electric lights like… — Elizabeth Wein Affection Copy Share Image
“...it never occurred to him that now he was looking at his master, at the one person in all the world who… — Elizabeth Wein Hatred Copy Share Image
“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 Bombs Copy Share Image
