140 Quotes by Elizabeth Wein

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

For the pleasure of giving, because what’s the point of just having? If I give a thing, I remember how happy we both were when I made the gift.

He just put his hand through the bulkhead, exactly as she’d done, and squeezed my shoulder. He has very strong fingers. And he kept his hand there the whole way home, even when he was reading the map and giving me headings. So I am not flying alone now after all.

People are complicated. There is so much more to everybody than you realise.

She whispered, ‘C’etait la Verite?’ Was that Verity? Or perhaps she just meant, Was that the truth? Was it true? Did any of it really happen? Were the last three hours real? ‘Yes,’ I whispered back. ‘Oui. C’etait la verite.

It’s impossible to stall a Lizzie.

It is so hard trying to say what you mean.

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

I am in the Special Operations Executive because I can speak French and German and am good at making up stories, and I am a prisoner in the Ormaie Gestapo HQ because I have no sense of direction whatsoever.