I sometimes think young people are not given nearly enough credit for their ability to appreciate literary flourish. — Elizabeth Wein Ability Copy Share Image
If you show this devious little liar one atom's worth of compassion I will have you shot. — Elizabeth Wein Atoms Copy Share Image
“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 Godless 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
God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something. — Elizabeth Wein Acrobatics Copy Share Image
You can come back to friendship. You can let it drop, for five years or ten years, and come back to it. — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“If I am very lucky - I mean if I am clever about it - I will get myself shot. Here, soon.” — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“Patriotism is not enough—I must have no hatred or bitterness for anyone.” She” — Elizabeth Wein Anger Copy Share Image
“But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without something buoying them up.” — Elizabeth Wein Achievement Copy Share Image
Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being… — Elizabeth Wein Hope 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
“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
“And you know, it was like I was breathing my own self back into me to say these word,s to remember that… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down.” — Elizabeth Wein Heart Copy Share Image
“That is a terrifically intimate thing, you know? Letting a stranger light your cigarette. Leaning forward so he can hold a flame… — Elizabeth Wein Breathing 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“People are complicated. There is so much more to everybody than you realize. You see someone in school everyday, or at work,… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
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 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 Angry Copy Share Image
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 Ironic 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 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
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
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 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 am in the Special Operations Executive because I can speak French and German and am good at making up stories, and… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“Her own hair was a glory of copper fire that morning, shining like a whisky still, long and loose in gentle flames… — Elizabeth Wein Bisexual-characters 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary was beheaded, the… — Elizabeth Wein Brave Copy Share Image
“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 Writer Copy Share Image
