Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.
Elizabeth WeinTags: gallows-humor
Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.
Elizabeth WeinTags: simile elephants ghosts moonlight hippos
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.
Elizabeth WeinTags: sad heartbreaking maddie juilie maddie-brodatt
It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code -- just feminine code.
Elizabeth WeinAnd I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any idea what I 'wanted' and so I was chosen, not choosing. There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.
Elizabeth WeinTags: free-will work choices professions
There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will
Elizabeth WeinTags: freedom freedom-of-choice chosen code-name-verity
It’s awful, telling it like this, isn’t it? As though we didn’t know the ending. As though it could have another ending. It’s like watching Romeo drink poison. Every time you see it you get fooled into thinking his girlfriend might wake up and stop him. Every single time you see it you want to shout, 'You stupid ass, just wait a minute,' and she’ll open her eyes! 'Oi, you, you twat, open your eyes, wake up! Don’t die this time!' But they always do.
Elizabeth WeinTags: death despair romeo-and-juliet irony
A part of me will always be unflyable, stuck in the climb.
Elizabeth WeinPeople are complicated. There is so much more to everybody than you realize. You see someone in school everyday, or at work, in the canteen, and you share a cigarette of a coffee with them, and you talk about the weather or last night's air raid. But you don't talk so much about what was the nastiest thing you ever said to your mother, or how you pretended to be David Balfour, the hero of Kidnapped, for the whole of the year when you were 13, or what you imagine yourself doing with the pilot who looks like Leslie Howard if you were alone in his bunk after a dance.
Elizabeth WeinI'M SCOTTISH!
Elizabeth WeinTags: humor funny argument english scottish
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