Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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