Quotes by Elizabeth Wein

Elizabeth Wein

And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don’t suppose I had any idea what I ‘wanted’ and so I was chosen, not choosing. There’s glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.

Honor

Ideas

Rooms

But people need lift, too. People don’t get moving, they don’t soar, they don’t achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up.

Moving

Needs

People

Don’t know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.

Know How

Knows

Fight with realistic hope, not to destroy all the world’s wrong, but to renew its good.

Fighting

Realistic

World

God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn’t want to believe something.

Acrobatics

Believe

Brain

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.

Home

Reading

Strong

Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you’re being lifted you don’t worry about plummeting.

Long

World

Worry

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.

Home

Morning

Mother

I tend not to attempt to describe pain. I don’t feel I can comprehend or re-create the personal suffering of others, so I simply try to tell what happened, or what I imagine happened. I also think it helps to let the reader fill in a lot of the blanks. Melodrama is patronizing. With a straightforward statement, readers can figure out for themselves what’s going on.

Pain

Suffering

Thinking

I think as readers we put ourselves in the protagonist’s place because we want to be like that person. That’s why sometimes we don’t like protagonists who aren’t all that nice; we want to relate to the protagonist.

Nice

Sometimes

Thinking

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Acrobatics

Battle

Beautiful

Believe

Book

Brain

Character

Compassion

Corners

Cry

Dark

Daughter

Dies

Emotional

Execution

Faces

Fate

Fighting

Fire

Flames

Flying

Free Will

Glory

Hard

Home

Honor

Hypocrite

Ideas

Ink

Kissing

Know How

Knows

Lasts

Liars

Littles

Long

Mean

Military

Morning

Mother

Moving

Needs

Nice

Pain

People

Please

Presence Of Mind

Reading

Real

Realistic

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Quotes by Elizabeth Wein

Elizabeth Wein

And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don’t suppose I had any idea what I ‘wanted’ and so I was chosen, not choosing. There’s glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.

But people need lift, too. People don’t get moving, they don’t soar, they don’t achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up.

Don’t know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.

Fight with realistic hope, not to destroy all the world’s wrong, but to renew its good.

God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn’t want to believe something.

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.

Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you’re being lifted you don’t worry about plummeting.

I think as readers we put ourselves in the protagonist’s place because we want to be like that person. That’s why sometimes we don’t like protagonists who aren’t all that nice; we want to relate to the protagonist.

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