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0ec020c	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."	maddie-bradott	Elizabeth Wein
aab6916	The soaring mountains rose around her, and the poets' waters glittered beneath her in the valleys of memory--hosts of golden daffodils, Swallows and Amazons, Peter Rabbit. She		Elizabeth Wein
44a1798	It was a nightmare I could never really define, to have so many people packed around me and not be able to communicate with any of them unless they felt like it.		Elizabeth Wein
29ea20b	Have you ever loved anything?" Yes. Yes. All the wrong things. The hunt, and darkness, and winter, and you, Godmother."		Elizabeth Wein
2e2c296	Hope--you think of hope as a bright thing, a strong thing, sustaining. But it's not. It's the opposite. It's simply this: lumps of stale bread stuck down your shirt. Stale gray bread eked out with ground fish bones, which you won't eat because you're going to give it away, and maybe you'll get a message through to your friend.		Elizabeth Wein
f6e0753	the Cup That Cheers		Elizabeth Wein
78e0f78	Teach your boy to fly, and he will be safe from spears and antique rifles." "I don't want him to go to war at all!" "When it comes, you will have no choice. The only way to save him is to lift him above the crowd."		Elizabeth Wein
b9d5f32	So, I have no sense of direction. In some of us it is a TRAGIC FLAW, and		Elizabeth Wein
c5ab8b5	He wept when they told him you were no longer allowed to see him. He WEPT. How much weeping have you done on his account, girl?" "I wake up screaming every night on his account."		Elizabeth Wein
38d88e1	Follow them," said Goewin, "and listen." So he did."		Elizabeth Wein
e16fc74	I mean, we are all in it together. None of us is innocent; none of us is alone." "You were both."		Elizabeth Wein
42e550a	Wait and hope, as I did while they took your arm off. I held my hand over your heart all through that final morning, so I could warn the surgeon of its faltering." "Did it falter?" "Not once. Nor will it falter now. Fly free, my brave one, my sunbird. Take back the sky. Do not be afraid."		Elizabeth Wein
e097dc5	The Rosalie really did not want to go like the clappers and performed its usual consumptive drama every time we came to an uphill slope, coughing and gasping like a dying Dickens heroine, and finally just stopped--engine still gasping a bit but the car just stopped. Simply could not move forward up the hill. Choke full out but cylinders firing pathetically as though we were trying to make the poor thing run on nothing but air.		Elizabeth Wein
a95f0a2	Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.	foible driving mother womens-rights	Elizabeth Wein
d731867	Listening to the Rabbits talk about their operations was like watching a horror movie in a foreign language. You sort of hoped you'd misunderstood what was going on. And then when you figured out what was really going on, it was worse than you'd thought.		Elizabeth Wein
adfae5a	Lucky for me I didn't know. Why lucky for her? Not lucky for the people she was protecting, but lucky for Roza. She didn't have to choose.		Elizabeth Wein
d8d5555	Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law.	bolshevik delightful innovative elizabeth-wein the-pearl-thief surprising mother curious	Elizabeth Wein
f4d204d	She gave a low and delighted chuckle. Her eyes were black as a moonless December night and reflected the electric lights like stars.	stars romance bisexual-character chuckle teen-romance lgbtqia-character ellen-mcewen the-pearl-thief julie	Elizabeth Wein
9d51e6b	Och, they suit you, Queenie! Promise me you'll wear them.	lgbtqia-character queenie elizabeth-wein the-pearl-thief julie sarcasm	Elizabeth Wein
52fb64f	take me. Ancient		Elizabeth Wein
ccee2f4	Von Linden 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
89fb401	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 always be unflyable, stuck in the climb.		Elizabeth Wein
4250ffd	But she did it. Because you do. It is incredible what you do, knowing you have to. A		Elizabeth Wein
1ea26d9	Ellen looked around the room with an odd expression, for the first few seconds not taking in the collection spread across the tables, but just taking in the library: the smell of ink and foxy paper and old wood, the green view of the river beyond the leaded casement window propped open just an inch. As if she loved it, but was a little scared to be there.		Elizabeth Wein
ea482dc	It's not desperation--there is something inhuman in it. That is what I find so creepy. Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing--and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.		Elizabeth Wein
e19152d	The ballpoint pen was invented by Laszlo Biro, a Hungarian journalist who fled to Argentina to escape the German occupation of Europe. In 1943 he licensed his invention to the RAF, and the first ballpoint pens were manufactured in Reading, England, by the Miles aircraft manufacturer, to supply pilots with a lasting ink supply!		Elizabeth Wein
0383633	Writing to you like this makes me feel that you are still alive. It's an illusion I've noticed before--words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It lasts only while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or the pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.		Elizabeth Wein
1cd8b50	Patriotism is not enough--I must have no hatred or bitterness for anyone.		Elizabeth Wein
ad5c1a4	I ken who you are! You're Strathfearn's granddaughter. Julie Stuart, is it? Och, aye, Lady Julia! Well then, Lady Julia, tell me -- who don't you deserve a glass of water?	lady-julia upstart elizabeth-wein ellen-mcewen the-pearl-thief indignation frustration sarcasm	Elizabeth Wein
c0c099b	The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.	mind submerged elizabeth-wein the-pearl-thief julie memory	Elizabeth Wein
b999ca9	Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.	silence stars romance elizabeth-wein ellen-mcewen the-pearl-thief julie certainty smoking	Elizabeth Wein
615ddf2	Which would you rather have--an unlimited supply of Chanel No. 5, or freedom?		Elizabeth Wein
a6b9eed	That's why we like to make things pretty; it's just'cause we're so dang sick of cleaning up horrible messes. Same instinct		Elizabeth Wein

0ec020c

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."

maddie-bradott

Elizabeth Wein

aab6916

The soaring mountains rose around her, and the poets' waters glittered beneath her in the valleys of memory--hosts of golden daffodils, Swallows and Amazons, Peter Rabbit. She

Elizabeth Wein

44a1798

It was a nightmare I could never really define, to have so many people packed around me and not be able to communicate with any of them unless they felt like it.

Elizabeth Wein

29ea20b

Have you ever loved anything?" Yes. Yes. All the wrong things. The hunt, and darkness, and winter, and you, Godmother."

Elizabeth Wein

2e2c296

Hope--you think of hope as a bright thing, a strong thing, sustaining. But it's not. It's the opposite. It's simply this: lumps of stale bread stuck down your shirt. Stale gray bread eked out with ground fish bones, which you won't eat because you're going to give it away, and maybe you'll get a message through to your friend.

Elizabeth Wein

f6e0753

the Cup That Cheers

Elizabeth Wein

78e0f78

Teach your boy to fly, and he will be safe from spears and antique rifles." "I don't want him to go to war at all!" "When it comes, you will have no choice. The only way to save him is to lift him above the crowd."

Elizabeth Wein

b9d5f32

So, I have no sense of direction. In some of us it is a TRAGIC FLAW, and

Elizabeth Wein

c5ab8b5

He wept when they told him you were no longer allowed to see him. He WEPT. How much weeping have you done on his account, girl?" "I wake up screaming every night on his account."

Elizabeth Wein

38d88e1

Follow them," said Goewin, "and listen." So he did."

Elizabeth Wein

e16fc74

I mean, we are all in it together. None of us is innocent; none of us is alone." "You were both."

Elizabeth Wein

42e550a

Wait and hope, as I did while they took your arm off. I held my hand over your heart all through that final morning, so I could warn the surgeon of its faltering." "Did it falter?" "Not once. Nor will it falter now. Fly free, my brave one, my sunbird. Take back the sky. Do not be afraid."

Elizabeth Wein

e097dc5

The Rosalie really did not want to go like the clappers and performed its usual consumptive drama every time we came to an uphill slope, coughing and gasping like a dying Dickens heroine, and finally just stopped--engine still gasping a bit but the car just stopped. Simply could not move forward up the hill. Choke full out but cylinders firing pathetically as though we were trying to make the poor thing run on nothing but air.

Elizabeth Wein

a95f0a2

Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.

foible driving mother womens-rights

Elizabeth Wein

d731867

Listening to the Rabbits talk about their operations was like watching a horror movie in a foreign language. You sort of hoped you'd misunderstood what was going on. And then when you figured out what was really going on, it was worse than you'd thought.

Elizabeth Wein

adfae5a

Lucky for me I didn't know. Why lucky for her? Not lucky for the people she was protecting, but lucky for Roza. She didn't have to choose.

Elizabeth Wein

d8d5555

Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law.

bolshevik delightful innovative elizabeth-wein the-pearl-thief surprising mother curious

Elizabeth Wein

f4d204d

She gave a low and delighted chuckle. Her eyes were black as a moonless December night and reflected the electric lights like stars.

stars romance bisexual-character chuckle teen-romance lgbtqia-character ellen-mcewen the-pearl-thief julie

Elizabeth Wein

9d51e6b

Och, they suit you, Queenie! Promise me you'll wear them.

lgbtqia-character queenie elizabeth-wein the-pearl-thief julie sarcasm

Elizabeth Wein

52fb64f

take me. Ancient

Elizabeth Wein

ccee2f4

Von Linden 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

89fb401

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 always be unflyable, stuck in the climb.

Elizabeth Wein

4250ffd

But she did it. Because you do. It is incredible what you do, knowing you have to. A

Elizabeth Wein

1ea26d9

Ellen looked around the room with an odd expression, for the first few seconds not taking in the collection spread across the tables, but just taking in the library: the smell of ink and foxy paper and old wood, the green view of the river beyond the leaded casement window propped open just an inch. As if she loved it, but was a little scared to be there.

Elizabeth Wein

ea482dc

It's not desperation--there is something inhuman in it. That is what I find so creepy. Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing--and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.

Elizabeth Wein

e19152d

The ballpoint pen was invented by Laszlo Biro, a Hungarian journalist who fled to Argentina to escape the German occupation of Europe. In 1943 he licensed his invention to the RAF, and the first ballpoint pens were manufactured in Reading, England, by the Miles aircraft manufacturer, to supply pilots with a lasting ink supply!

Elizabeth Wein

0383633

Writing to you like this makes me feel that you are still alive. It's an illusion I've noticed before--words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It lasts only while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or the pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.

Elizabeth Wein

1cd8b50

Patriotism is not enough--I must have no hatred or bitterness for anyone.

Elizabeth Wein

ad5c1a4

I ken who you are! You're Strathfearn's granddaughter. Julie Stuart, is it? Och, aye, Lady Julia! Well then, Lady Julia, tell me -- who don't you deserve a glass of water?

lady-julia upstart elizabeth-wein ellen-mcewen the-pearl-thief indignation frustration sarcasm

Elizabeth Wein

c0c099b

The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.

mind submerged elizabeth-wein the-pearl-thief julie memory

Elizabeth Wein

b999ca9

Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.

silence stars romance elizabeth-wein ellen-mcewen the-pearl-thief julie certainty smoking

Elizabeth Wein

615ddf2

Which would you rather have--an unlimited supply of Chanel No. 5, or freedom?

Elizabeth Wein

a6b9eed

That's why we like to make things pretty; it's just'cause we're so dang sick of cleaning up horrible messes. Same instinct

Elizabeth Wein