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“I had been in France less than 48 hours before that obliging agent of yours had to stop me being run over by a French van full of French chickens because I’d looked the wrong way before crossing the street. Which shows how cunning the Gestapo are. “This person I’ve pulled from beneath the wheels of certain death was expecting traffic to travel on the left side of the road. Therefore she must be British, and is likely to have parachuted into Nazi-occupied France out of an Allied plane. I shall now arrest her as a spy.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

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“Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

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

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“Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

tags: death, friendship, grief, heart, worry

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“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

tags: code-name-verity, fate, friends, friendship, julie, kittyhawk, love, maddie, verity

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