Code Name Verity Quotes.

11. "There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will"
- Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

12. "We are a sensational team"
- Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

13. "Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do."
- Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

14. "People are complicated. There is so much more to everybody than you realize. You see someone in school everyday, or at work, in the canteen, and you share a cigarette of a coffee with them, and you talk about the weather or last night's air raid. But you don't talk so much about what was the nastiest thing you ever said to your mother, or how you pretended to be David Balfour, the hero of Kidnapped, for the whole of the year when you were 13, or what you imagine yourself doing with the pilot who looks like Leslie Howard if you were alone in his bunk after a dance."
- Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

15. "Careless talk costs lives."
- Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

16. "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

17. "How did you ever get here, Maddie Brodatt?" "'Second to the right, and then straight on till morning,'" she answered promptly-it did feel like Neverland. "Crikey, am I so obviously Peter Pan?" Maddie laughed. "The Lost Boys give it away." Jamie studied his hands. "Mother keeps the windows open in all our bedrooms while we're gone, like Mrs. Darling, just in case we come flying home when she's not expecting us."
- Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

18. "Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity."
- Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

19. "He just put his hand through the bulkhead, exactly as she'd done, and squeezed my shoulder. He has very strong fingers. And he kept his hand there the whole way home, even when he was reading the map and giving me headings. So I am not flying alone now after all."
- Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

20. "Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution."
- Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity