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"Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution."
"Fly safely."
“Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.”
“Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.”
Kiss me Hardy.
"'Fräulein Engel, you are not a student of literature," he [von Linden] said. The English flight officer has studied the craft of the novel. She is making use of suspense and foreshadowing.' _ Golly, Engel stared at him. I, of course, took…
"So then we had a genial argument about Orwellian socialism. He (v.L.) disapproves (obviously, as Orwell spent five months battling the idiot Fascists in Spain in 1937), and I (who don't always agree with Orwell either but for different…
"Maddie [was] nothing if not mechanically minded and trained to react positively to orders from people in authority" pg 66
"'If you're scared, do something'" pg 66 and 94
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“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…
KOUJOKAKYUU
“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 Wein, Code Name Verity
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“It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.” ― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity