{"author":"Elizabeth Wein","author_id":"Elizabeth+Wein","total_quotes":27,"quotes":[{"text":"There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will.","author":"Elizabeth Wein","tags":["chosen","code-name-verity","freedom","freedom-of-choice"],"id":14823,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wein"},{"text":"How do you ever hold on to anybody?","author":"Elizabeth Wein","tags":["affection","certainty","elizabeth-wein","holding-on-to-something","romance","the-pearl-thief"],"id":30628,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wein"},{"text":"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.","author":"Elizabeth Wein","tags":["1930s","bolshevik","curious","delightful","elizabeth-wein","innovative","mother","surprising","the-pearl-thief"],"id":63244,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wein"},{"text":"Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.","author":"Elizabeth Wein","tags":["elephants","ghosts","hippos","moonlight","simile"],"id":90596,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wein"},{"text":"Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.","author":"Elizabeth Wein","tags":["hardship","perserverence","strength"],"id":99662,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wein"},{"text":"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?","author":"Elizabeth Wein","tags":["aye","elizabeth-wein","ellen-mcewen","frustration","indignation","lady-julia","sarcasm","the-pearl-thief","upstart"],"id":102409,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wein"},{"text":"I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see.","author":"Elizabeth Wein","tags":["foreign-language","inspirational","travel"],"id":148991,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wein"},{"text":"Incredible. It is just incredible that you can notice something like that when your face is so cold you can't feel it anymore, and you know perfectly well you are surrounded by death, and the only way to stay alive is to endure the howling wind and hold your course. And still the sky is beautiful.","author":"Elizabeth Wein","tags":["beautiful","historical-fiction","inspirational","lyrical","world-war-ii"],"id":153388,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wein"},{"text":"That is a terrifically intimate thing, you know? Letting a stranger light your cigarette. Leaning forward so he can hold a flame to your lips. Pausing to breathe in before you pull back again.","author":"Elizabeth Wein","tags":["breathing","cigarette","elizabeth-wein","intimacy","julie","lips","smoking","the-pearl-thief"],"id":188792,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wein"},{"text":"It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in prison.","author":"Elizabeth Wein","tags":["historical","new-adult","world-war-2","young-adult"],"id":194205,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wein"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}