Elizabeth Wein Quotes

Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.

Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?

God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.

Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.

Careless talk costs lives.

Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.

We are a sensational team.

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

One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark.

It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code -- just feminine code.

But a part of me lies buried in lace and roses on a riverbank in France-a part of me is broken off forever. A part of me will be unflyable, stuck in the climb.

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.

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

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

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

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 sensational team.

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

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

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

It is so hard trying to say what you mean.

Please come back soon. The window is always open.

Hope is treacherous, but how can you live without it?

Must stop. This ink is amazing, it really doesn't smear, even when you cry on it

It's impossible to stall a Lizzie.

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

Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.

Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on.

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

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

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

How do you ever hold on to anybody?

That is a terrifically intimate thing, you know? Letting a stranger light your cigarette. Leaning forward so he can hold a flame to your lips. Pausing to breathe in before you pull back again.

I ken who you are! You're Strathfearn's granddaughter. Julie Stuart, is it? Och, aye, Lady Julia! Well then, Lady Julia, tell me -- who don't you deserve a glass of water?

Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law.

Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.

It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in prison.

I am like a ruined piece of parchment scrawled over and over again with your name, so many times it has become illegible.

It is possible there are some things you want so badly that you will change your life to make them happen.

I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see.

The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.

If you're scared, do something.

Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.