Code Name Verity Quotes.

1. "It's like being in love, discovering your best friend."
- Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

2. "KISS ME, HARDY! Kiss me, QUICK!"
- Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

3. "I am no longer afraid of getting old. Indeed I can't believe I ever said anything so stupid. So childish. So offensive and arrogant. But mainly, so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old."
- Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

4. "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 Wein, Code Name Verity

5. "But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth."
- Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

6. "FLY THE PLANE, MADDIE."
- Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

7. "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 Wein, Code Name Verity

8. "Please come back soon. The window is always open."
- Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

9. "And this, even more wonderful and mysterious, is also true: when I read it, when I read what Julie's written, she is instantly alive again, whole and undamaged. With her words in my mind while I'm reading, she is as real as I am. Gloriously daft, drop-dead charming, full of bookish nonsense and foul language, brave and generous. She's right here. Afraid and exhausted, alone, but fighting. Flying in silver moonlight in a plane that can't be landed, stuck in the climb—alive, alive, ALIVE."
- Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

10. "A whore, we've established that, filthy, it goes without saying, but whatever else the hell I am, I AM NOT ENGLISH."
- Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

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