Black Dove White Raven Quotes

“Doing the thing you are scared of is much harder than not being afraid of anything. It is easy to be brave. It is not so easy to be scared and do a brave thing anyway.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Black Dove White Raven

“I loved that phrase: soul mate. We asked Grandma what it meant and she said, 'Two people who understand each other without talking about it. Two halves of a whole.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Black Dove White Raven

“I have nothing to lose. I am going to dare it. I will aim for the sun.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Black Dove White Raven

“These are just stories, you know. They are part of what we are, but they are not the real thing. All this year I’ve been thinking, What would White Raven do? And today, every time I thought it, I just didn’t care what White Raven would do. So today I’ve just done what I would do. I’ve just done what I think is right. I’m not going to stop making up stories. But I’m thinking now that they aren’t just for pretending to be someone else, someone more exciting, someone braver than you really are. They are not always jut a maze to get lost in so you can run away from life. They can just as well be maps to help you navigate.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Black Dove White Raven

“You know how sometimes when you come home and you haven't seen a place for so long that it seems unbelievably beautiful, and you want to cry because you love it so much you think it's going to break your heart? I felt like that, too. I am HOME.”
― elizabeth wein, Black Dove White Raven

“You just have to be careful with Momma for a while," Teo told me. "She's broken. Like a jug with a broken handle that you try to glue back together. It looks all right, and it'll still hold water. It's still a good jug. But you better not ever try to pick it up by the handle. You have to wait for the glue to dry, and even then it might not hold.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Black Dove White Raven

“I wish you could go through life without ever caring about anything, without ever getting attached to people and dreams and inaccessible places. It just makes you sad when you can never go back.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Black Dove White Raven

“Stars poked through like holes in the cloth of the sky and shed no light on anything.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Black Dove White Raven

“Things became more civilized all of a sudden. Coffee does that. Or maybe it is women who do that.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Black Dove White Raven

“Spiderwebs joined together can catch a lion.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Black Dove White Raven

“Sometimes I feel as if the only thing I can do is write. It helps me think.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Black Dove White Raven

“But while they stayed down, rolling around and trying to kill each other, Em jumped to her feet.

Her costumes sometimes have little finishing touches that no one can see. She hadn't told me about this one.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Black Dove White Raven

“Equality comes in different forms, and it is a lot harder being a girl in Ethiopia than it was in Pennsylvania.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Black Dove White Raven

“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 , Black Dove White Raven

“Don't you ever do that to me."

"You know you'll never make as much of a fool of yourself as Horatio Augustus. So I won't have to.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Black Dove White Raven

“Black Dove, let's write. Let's work on a story. Let's work on Glassland."

"Make me a prisoner in the Fortress of Clarity."

"Got to rescue you.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Black Dove White Raven

“Emmy and I are still Habte Sadek's favorite foreigners, and it is all because I wanted to look at his feet when I was eleven years old! But it never hurts to be polite to people.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Black Dove White Raven

“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 the crowd.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Black Dove White Raven