Summer Paris

“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...”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“I don't believe for a minute-that we wouldn't have become friends somehow-that an unexploded bomb wouldn't have gone off and blown us both into the same crater, or that God himself wouldn't have come along and knocked our heads together in a flash of green sunlight. But it wouldn't have been likely.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“...unless you were doing them a favor by killing them. Then, you'd let them down if you didn't, if you couldn't make yourself.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity