"It's like being in love, discovering your best friend."

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Source : Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.64, Egmont UK

Elizabeth Wein

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“The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labor to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness.”
“It is impossible for us to fail when we do our best when we are on the Lord's errand.”
“Even if my songs are a bit low-spirited, they make me happy. I become happy when I hear sad songs. When you sing about sad things in a beautiful way, the atmosphere turns upside down”
“Iâ€™ve become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel has been a kind of search for that, a pursuit for unity and even an attempt to contribute to a sense of unity.”
“If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.”
“Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.”
“I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.”

Source : "Raha Moharrak: First Saudi woman to conquer Everest and break taboos" by Kellie Morgan, www.cnn.com. August 13, 2013.
“IÂ tried to read the Bible, IÂ did, but it always felt like a much less awesome Lord of the Rings.”

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