140 Quotes by Elizabeth Wein

Where I fail in accuracy, I hope I make up for it in plausibility.

I realized I would be forced to run away from home if someone tried to arrange a marriage for me. I didn’t want to think about it.

How can you grow to love a handful of strangers so fiercely just because you have to sleep on the same couple of wooden planks with them, when half the time you were there you wanted to strangle them, and all you ever talked about is death and imaginary strawberries?

I am scared of the way they are clinging to the French and Belgian ports, even though they’ve been pushed out of most of the rest of France. There is something about it that spooks me. They’ve lost.

I, of course, took the opportunity to interpose with pigheaded Wallace pride, ‘I am not English, you ignorant Jerry bastard, I am a SCOT.