“ 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. Elizabeth Wein
“ The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back. Elizabeth Wein
“ 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? Elizabeth Wein
“ She gave a low and delighted chuckle. Her eyes were black as a moonless December night and reflected the electric lights like stars. Elizabeth Wein
“ How did you ever get here, Maddie Brodatt?'Second to the right, and then straight on till morning,' she answered promptly-it did feel like Neverland.Crikey, am I so obviously Peter Pan?Maddie laughed.… Elizabeth Wein
“ Von Linden 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. Elizabeth Wein
“ I mean, we are all in it together. None of us is innocent; none of us is alone.You were both. Elizabeth Wein
“ That's why we like to make things pretty; it's just'cause we're so dang sick of cleaning up horrible messes. Same instinct Elizabeth Wein
“ Lucky for me I didn’t know. Why lucky for her? Not lucky for the people she was protecting, but lucky for Róża. She didn’t have to choose. Elizabeth Wein
“ 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 always be unflyable, stuck in the climb. Elizabeth Wein
“ Wait and hope, as I did while they took your arm off. I held my hand over your heart all through that final morning, so I could warn the surgeon of its faltering.Did it falter?Not once. Nor will it fa… Elizabeth Wein
“ Hope—you think of hope as a bright thing, a strong thing, sustaining. But it’s not. It’s the opposite. It’s simply this: lumps of stale bread stuck down your shirt. Stale gray bread eked out with grou… Elizabeth Wein
“ It was a nightmare I could never really define, to have so many people packed around me and not be able to communicate with any of them unless they felt like it. Elizabeth Wein
