Code Name Verity Quotes

“There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“I don't believe for a minute-that we wouldn't have become friends somehow-that an unexploded bomb wouldn't have gone off and blown us both into the same crater, or that God himself wouldn't have come along and knocked our heads together in a flash of green sunlight. But it wouldn't have been likely.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“There is only one reason I did not go down in flames over the Angers, and that is because I knew I had Julie in the back. Would never have had the presence of mind to put that fire out if I hadn't been trying to save her life.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“If you show this devious little liar one atom's worth of compassion I will have you shot.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“She has the filthiest tongue of any woman in France. Burn her mouth clean.”
― Elizabeth Wein