We make a sensational team.

Elizabeth Wein

Tags: best-friends maddie-bradott



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Careless talk costs lives.

Elizabeth Wein

Tags: verity



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But more often than not the missing face has been sucked into the engines of the Nazi death machine, like an unlucky lapwing hitting the propeller of a Lancaster bomber-nothing left but feathers blowing away in the aircraft's wake, as if those warm wings and beating heart had never existed.

Elizabeth Wein

Tags: death disappearance human-life fragility-of-human-life



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Kiss me, Hardy!’ Weren’t those Nelson’s last words at the Battle of Trafalgar? Don’t cry. We’re still alive and we make a sensational team.

Elizabeth Wein

Tags: best-friends maddie verity admiral-horatio-nelson



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Fight with realistic
hope, not to destroy

all the world's wrong,
but to renew its good.

Elizabeth Wein


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Queenie was devoted to careless name-dropping, scattering the details of her privileged upbringing without the faintest hint of modesty or embarrassment (though, after a while Maddie began to realize she only did it with people she liked or people she detested--those who didn't mind and those she didn't care about--anyone in between, or who might have been offended, she was more cautious with).

Elizabeth Wein


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