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Elizabeth Wein citáty a výroky

„Když se člověk usmívá a prozpěvuje si, nikdo by nehádal, že plánuje protiútok. Když se tváří ustaraně, někoho dřív nebo později začne zajímat, co ho asi tak trápí.“

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„Mlčení zachraňuje životy.“

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Elizabeth Wein: Citáty anglicky

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

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Elizabeth Wein kniha Code Name Verity

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“I am no longer afraid of getting old. Indeed I can't believe I ever said anything so stupid. So childish. So offensive and.
But mainly, so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old.”

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“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 be unflyable, stuck in the climb.”

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“But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.”

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“Please come back soon. The window is always open.”

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“Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.”

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Elizabeth Wein kniha Rose Under Fire

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“There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will”

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Elizabeth Wein kniha Code Name Verity

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“Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.”

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“It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code -- just feminine code.”

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“Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.”

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“But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up.”

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“And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any idea what I 'wanted' and so I was chosen, not choosing. There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.”

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“A part of me will always be unflyable, stuck in the climb.”

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“Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on.”

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“Hope is treacherous, but how can you live without it?”

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Elizabeth Wein kniha Rose Under Fire

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“Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?”

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Elizabeth Wein kniha Code Name Verity

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“It is so hard trying to say what you mean.”

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Elizabeth Wein kniha Rose Under Fire

Zdroj: Rose Under Fire

“Kiss me, Hardy!’ Weren’t those Nelson’s last words at the Battle of Trafalgar? Don’t cry. We’re still alive and we make a sensational team.”

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

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Elizabeth Wein kniha Rose Under Fire

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“One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark.”

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“Fight with realistic
hope, not to destroy

all the world's wrong,
but to renew its good.”

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Elizabeth Wein kniha Rose Under Fire

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“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.”

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“Theof what they will do to you is every bit as sickening in a dream as when it is really going to happen.”

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“God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.”

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Elizabeth Wein kniha Rose Under Fire

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“If I amlucky - I mean if I am clever about it - I will get myself shot. Here, soon.”

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“She whispered, 'C'etait la Verite?' Was that Verity? Or perhaps she just meant, Was that the truth? Was it true? Did any of it really happen? Were the last three hours real? 'Yes,' I whispered back. 'Oui. C'etait la verite.”

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“But I've never despised myself so much as I did that day - she was so small and - so fierce, so, it was like breaking a hawk's wings, stopping up a clear spring with bricks - digging up roses to make space to park your tank. Pointless and ugly.”

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“There were no route maps posted on the walls, but a Wonderland-style sign commanding, 'If you know where you are, then please tell others.”

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“Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God”

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“You can't just sit in a corner weeping or you'll die.”

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Elizabeth Wein kniha Rose Under Fire

Zdroj: Rose Under Fire

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