Summer Paris

“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

“If you're scared, do something.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“The quick, sudden terror of exploding bombs is not the same as the never-ending, bone-sapping fear of discovery and capture. It never goes away. There isn’t ever any relief, never the possibility of an ‘All Clear’ siren. You always feel a little bit sick inside, knowing the worst might happen at any moment.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“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