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Elizabeth Wein, born on October 2, 1964, is a British writer known for her historical fiction and young adult literature. Her works are celebrated for their deep historical insights and nuanced portrayals of female characters. Her notable works include 'The Time Traveler's Wife' and 'Beautiful Mind', which have become bestsellers and have had a significant impact on young adult literature.

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

Book:Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

“Maddie took the top of her egg off. The hot bright yolk was like summer sun breaking through cloud. The first daffodil in the snow. A gold sovereign wrapped in a white silk handkerchief. She dipped her spoon in it and licked it.”

Firsts White Sun Summer Gold Hot Clouds Snow Eggs Sovereign Silk Spoons Daffodil Handkerchiefs Summer Sun

Book:Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

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

Author:Elizabeth Wein

“Look at me!’ I screeched. ‘Look at me, Amadeus von Linden, you sadistic hypocrite, and watch this time! You’re not questioning me now, this isn’t your work, I’m not an enemy agent spewing wireless code! I’m just a minging Scots slag screaming insults at your daughter! So enjoy yourself and watch! Think of Isolde! Think of Isolde and watch!”

Thinking Looks Enjoy Enemy Watches Daughter Agents Code Insult Questioning Look At Me Hypocrite Wireless Your Daughter Scots Sadistic Enjoy Yourself Slag Amadeus

Book:Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

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

Ifs Knows Feels Heart My Heart Happenings Electricity

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“We are a sensational team.”

Team Sensational

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“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.”

Ifs Knows Style Wall Please Maps Where You Are Routes Wonderland

Book:Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

“There is only one reason I did not go down in flames over the Angers, and that is because I knew I had Julie in the back. Would never have had the presence of mind to put that fire out if I hadn't been trying to save her life.”

Ifs Trying Mind Reason Fire Flames Presence Of Mind

Book:Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

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

Incredibles Thread Slender

Book:Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

“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.”

Real Happens Lasts Three Hours

Book:Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

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

Book:Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

“It never occurred to him that now he was looking at his master, at the one person in all the world who held his fate right between her palms - me, in patched hand-me-downs and untrimmed hair and idiot smile - and that my hatred for him is pure and black and unforgiving. And that I don't believe in God, but if I did, if I did, it would be the God of Moses, angry and demanding and OUT FOR REVENGE.”

Ifs World Believe Persons Hands Would Be Black Fate Masters Hair Pure Hatred Angry Don't Believe Revenge Idiot Believe In God Palms Moses Unforgiving

Author:Elizabeth Wein

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

Dies Corners Weeping

Book:Rose Under Fire

Source: Rose Under Fire

“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.”

World Long Worry Lifts Treacherous

Book:Rose Under Fire

Source: Rose Under Fire

“Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.”

Years Mind Lost Behinds Five Destruction Insane Five Years Fuel Urges Clothings Shortage Mayhem

Book:Rose Under Fire

Source: Rose Under Fire

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

Knows Want Believe Doe Brain God Knows Acrobatics

Book:Rose Under Fire

Source: Rose Under Fire

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

Author:Elizabeth Wein

“It is so hard trying to say what you mean.”

Trying Mean Hard

Book:Rose Under Fire

Source: Rose Under Fire

“It's an illusion I've noticed before-- words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only lasts while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.”

Lasts Fall Paper Pages Illusion Ghost Pens Engines Oxygen Firing Lifeless Petrol

Book:Rose Under Fire

Source: Rose Under Fire

“Careless talk costs lives.”

Book:Rose Under Fire

Source: Rose Under Fire

“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.”

Stills Lasts Alive Team Cry Battle Kissing Last Words Kiss Me Nelson Hardy Sensational

Book:Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

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

World Fighting Realistic

Book:Rose Under Fire

Source: Rose Under Fire

“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.”

People Needs Moving Achieve Lifts Height Soar Great Heights Get Moving

Book:Rose Under Fire

Source: Rose Under Fire

About the Author

Born: October 2, 1964
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 73

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