Elizabeth Wein Quotes

But she did it. Because you do. It is incredible what you do, knowing you have to. A

Listening to the Rabbits talk about their operations was like watching a horror movie in a foreign language. You sort of hoped you’d misunderstood what was going on. And then when you figured out what...

Ellen looked around the room with an odd expression, for the first few seconds not taking in the collection spread across the tables, but just taking in the library: the smell of ink and foxy paper an...

Patriotism is not enough—I must have no hatred or bitterness for anyone.

Teach your boy to fly, and he will be safe from spears and antique rifles. I don't want him to go to war at all! When it comes, you will have no choice. The only way to save him is to lift him above t...

So, I have no sense of direction. In some of us it is a TRAGIC FLAW, and

Take me. Ancient

It’s not desperation—there is something inhuman in it. That is what I find so creepy. Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing—and the insan...

The ballpoint pen was invented by László Bíró, a Hungarian journalist who fled to Argentina to escape the German occupation of Europe. In 1943 he licensed his invention to the RAF, and the first ballp...

Writing to you like this makes me feel that you are still alive. It’s an illusion I’ve noticed before—words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It lasts only while the word...

He wept when they told him you were no longer allowed to see him. He WEPT. How much weeping have you done on his account, girl?I wake up screaming every night on his account.

Have you ever loved anything?Yes. Yes. All the wrong things. The hunt, and darkness, and winter, and you, Godmother.

The Rosalie really did not want to go like the clappers and performed its usual consumptive drama every time we came to an uphill slope, coughing and gasping like a dying Dickens heroine, and finally...