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Things became more civilized all of a sudden. Coffee does that. Or maybe it is women who do that.

Black Dove, let's write. Let's work on a story. Let's work on Glassland."
"Make me a prisoner in the Fortress of Clarity."
"Got to rescue you.

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

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

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.

These trials aren't about revenge. They're about justice. Don't you want justice, Rose Justice?

You know, it set you at war with yourself.

The anticipation of what they will do to you is every bit as sickening in a dream as when it is really going to happen.

I have nothing to lose. I am going to dare it. I will aim for the sun.

Fight with realistic
hope, not to destroy
all the world's wrong,
but to renew its good.

Spiderwebs joined together can catch a lion.

In trust and wisdom you can be as far superior to anyone as you dare make yourself.

I, of course, took the opportunity to interpose with pigheaded Wallace pride, 'I am not English, you ignorant Jerry bastard, I am a SCOT.

KISS ME, HARDY! Kiss me, QUICK!

Follow them," said Goewin, "and listen."

So he did.

The fuss made over the chickens at the checkpoints is not to be believed. Unlike me they had their own papers.

Must stop. This ink is amazing, it really doesn't smear, even when you cry on it

Sometimes I feel as if the only thing I can do is write. It helps me think.

Careless talk costs lives.

We make a sensational team.

If I am very lucky - I mean if I am clever about it - I will get myself shot. Here, soon.

the Cup That Cheers

But she did it. Because you do. It is incredible what you do, knowing you have to. A

I am like a ruined piece of parchment scrawled over and over again with your name, so many times it has become illegible.

Don't you think it makes them stronger when you give them someone to despise?

Stars poked through like holes in the cloth of the sky and shed no light on anything.

Taran. We go down fighting.

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

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.

It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in prison.

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

A woman did that.

FLY THE PLANE, MADDIE.

(I really would like to catapult myself back there in time and kick my own teeth in.)

It is so hard trying to say what you mean.

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

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.

Maddie quickly pulled down the blackout curtains over her bright and vulnerable soul.

Equality comes in different forms, and it is a lot harder being a girl in Ethiopia than it was in Pennsylvania.

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

She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down.

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

There is no end," I said. "Only the beginning of something else.

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

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

So, I have no sense of direction. In some of us it is a TRAGIC FLAW, and

It's impossible to stall a Lizzie.

More than anything else, I think, Maddie went to war on behalf of the Holy Island seals.

Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God

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

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.

If you're scared, do something.

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

High time they put the RAF in kilts.

I mean, we are all in it together. None of us is innocent; none of us is alone."

"You were both.

We are a sensational team

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

Unless you were doing them a favor by killing them. Then, you'd let them down if you didn't, if you couldn't make yourself.

Please come back soon. The window is always open.

Where I fail in accuracy, I hope I make up for it in plausibility.

Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.

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

Julie would have died there.

Don't you ever do that to me."
"You know you'll never make as much of a fool of yourself as Horatio Augustus. So I won't have to.

A poet and a doctor. Maybe I could.
This the first thought I have of it. Maybe I could.

A whore, we've established that, filthy, it goes without saying, but whatever else the hell I am, I AM NOT ENGLISH.

Godless as I am, I pray she's got away with it. It's like ripples in a pond, isn't it? It doesn't stop in one place.