Code Name Verity Quotes & Sayings

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

There's glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will — Elizabeth Wein

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

If you show this devious little liar one atom's worth of compassion I will have you shot. — Elizabeth Wein

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