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How do you ever hold on to anybody?Elizabeth Wein
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She gave a low and delighted chuckle. Her eyes were black as a moonless December night and reflected the electric lights like stars.Elizabeth Wein
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Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.Elizabeth Wein
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If you're scared, do something.Elizabeth Wein
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I realized I would be forced to run away from home if someone tried to arrange a marriage for me. I didn't want to think about it.Elizabeth Wein
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The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.Elizabeth Wein
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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.Elizabeth Wein
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It is possible there are some things you want so badly that you will change your life to make them happen.Elizabeth Wein
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I love the story of a thing. I love a thing for what it means a thousand times more than for what it's worth.Elizabeth Wein
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Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.Elizabeth Wein
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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.Elizabeth Wein
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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?Elizabeth Wein
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Och, they suit you, Queenie! Promise me you'll wear them.Elizabeth Wein
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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.Elizabeth Wein