Wein Quotes

#1. It was wonderful flirting with him, all the razor-edged literary banter, like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. A battle of wit, and a test, too. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#2. She tried not to think about what it would be like running across the airfield to the radio room an hour from now, under fire. But she did it. Because you do. It is incredible what you do, knowing you have to. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#3. I had been in France less than 48 hours before that obliging agent of yours had to stop me being run over by a French van full of French chickens because I'd looked the wrong way before crossing the street. Which shows how cunning the Gestapo are. This person I've pulled from beneath the wheels of certain death was expecting traffic to travel on the left side of the road. Therefore she must be British, and is likely to have parachuted into Nazi-occupied France out of an Allied plane. I shall now arrest her as a spy. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#4. I'm just looking at whatever moment I'm at, trying to tell a story that at that time feels like it needs to be told, like I want to see it and how I'm feeling in my life. #Quote by Daryl Wein

#5. I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design. #Quote by Len Wein

#6. 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. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#7. In trust and wisdom you can be as far superior to anyone as you dare make yourself. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#8. Taran. We go down fighting. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#9. Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title. #Quote by Len Wein

#10. You just have to be careful with Momma for a while," Teo told me. "She's broken. Like a jug with a broken handle that you try to glue back together. It looks all right, and it'll still hold water. It's still a good jug. But you better not ever try to pick it up by the handle. You have to wait for the glue to dry, and even then it might not hold. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#11. I learned very quickly that if you just go out and make something and maybe fail at it or you just learn how to edit it yourself. I edited my last films. You just do it yourself. You feel so creatively empowered and you're controlling your own destiny as artists. #Quote by Daryl Wein

#12. 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. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#13. Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#14. A part of me will always be unflyable, stuck in the climb. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#15. Oh Julie, wouldn't I know if you were dead? Wouldn't I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart? #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#16. It's impossible to stall a Lizzie. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#17. 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. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#18. I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me. #Quote by Len Wein

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

So he did. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#20. I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort. #Quote by Len Wein

#21. The villain is always more entertaining because he has fewer limitations. The hero is bound by honor, by justice and by the law, sometimes. #Quote by Len Wein

#22. Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#23. It's not unreal to me yet, though it might get that way soon. It still feels very real. And not even horrible
the dead are just the dead. I am convinced that the living people they once were would have been proud of their protective bodies hoodwinking their murderers to save someone else. [..]
But it's not civilized. There is something indecent about it
really foully indecent. The civilized Rose-person in me, who still seems to exist beneath the layers of filth, knows this. [..]
I have become so indifferent about the dead. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#24. Maddie held her lightly, thinking she would let go when her friend stopped crying. But she cried for so long that Maddie fell asleep first. So she didn't ever let go. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#25. Sometimes I feel as if the only thing I can do is write. It helps me think. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#26. I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important. #Quote by Len Wein

#27. I don't recognise any of my emotions any more. There's no such thing as plain joy or grief. It's horror and relief and panic and gratitude all jumbled together. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#28. 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. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#29. Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes. #Quote by Len Wein

#30. 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. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#31. And this, even more wonderful and mysterious, is also true: when I read it, when I read what Julie's written, she is instantly alive again, whole and undamaged. With her words in my mind while I'm reading, she is as real as I am. Gloriously daft, drop-dead charming, full of bookish nonsense and foul language, brave and generous. She's right here. Afraid and exhausted, alone, but fighting. Flying in silver moonlight in a plane that can't be landed, stuck in the climb - alive, alive, ALIVE. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#32. High time they put the RAF in kilts. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#33. 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. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

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

#35. Would the Holy One, Blessed is he, dispense judgment without justice? But we may say that he whom God loves will be chastised. For since the day the Holy Temple was destroyed, the righteous are seized by death for the iniquities of the generation #Quote by Berel Wein

#36. 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. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#37. Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#38. When you're speaking very articulately and you're poised and you hold yourself well, that to me seems to indicate a certain way of being in life. You're in a certain place. And, whenever you break up with someone of many years, you tend to go down spiraling out of control, down some rabbit hole of sorts. #Quote by Daryl Wein

#39. Please come back soon. The window is always open. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#40. I don't believe for a minute-that we wouldn't have become friends somehow-that an unexploded bomb wouldn't have gone off and blown us both into the same crater, or that God himself wouldn't have come along and knocked our heads together in a flash of green sunlight. But it wouldn't have been likely. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#41. I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach. #Quote by Len Wein

#42. Julie would have died there. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

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

"You were both. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#44. If you show this devious little liar one atom's worth of compassion I will have you shot. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#45. Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff. #Quote by Len Wein

#46. These trials aren't about revenge. They're about justice. Don't you want justice, Rose Justice? #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#47. How does she do it? She makes it sound like she is so cut up to be giving them this information, and it's all just bumph out of her head. She never told them ANYTHING. I don't think she's given them the right name of any airfield in Britain except Mainsend and Buscot, which of course were where she was stationed. They could have easily checked. It's all so close to truth, and so glib
her aircraft identification is rather good considering what a fuss she makes about it. It makes me think of the first day I met her, giving those directions in German. So cool and crisp, such authority
suddenly she really was a radio operator, a German radio operator, she was so good at faking it. Or when I told her to be Jamie, how she just suddenly turned into Jamie.
This confession of hers is rotten with error ... #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#48. I think every time you take a female character, a black character, a Hispanic character, a gay character, and make that the point of the character, you are minimalizing the character, #Quote by Len Wein

#49. When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics. #Quote by Len Wein

#50. Fight with realistic
hope, not to destroy
all the world's wrong,
but to renew its good. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#51. Maddie quickly pulled down the blackout curtains over her bright and vulnerable soul. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#52. Wait and hope, as I did while they took your arm off. I held my hand over your heart all through that final morning, so I could warn the surgeon of its faltering."

"Did it falter?"

"Not once. Nor will it falter now. Fly free, my brave one, my sunbird. Take back the sky. Do not be afraid. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#53. Her own hair was a glory of copper fire that morning, shining like a whisky still, long and loose in gentle flames down her back. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#54. In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home. #Quote by Len Wein

#55. I loved that phrase: soul mate. We asked Grandma what it meant and she said, 'Two people who understand each other without talking about it. Two halves of a whole. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#56. Stars poked through like holes in the cloth of the sky and shed no light on anything. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#57. 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. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#58. It never occurred to him that now he was looking at his master, at the one person in all the world who held his fate right between her palms - me, in patched hand-me-downs and untrimmed hair and idiot smile - and that my hatred for him is pure and black and unforgiving. And that I don't believe in God, but if I did, if I did, it would be the God of Moses, angry and demanding and OUT FOR REVENGE ... #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#59. It's like being raised by wolves -- you don't realize you're not one yourself until someone points it out to you. Sometimes it makes me so mad that not everyone treats me just like another wolf. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#60. You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end. #Quote by Len Wein

#61. When you're flying, the changing balance of lift and weight pulls you up or down. But another pair of forces pulls you forward or backward through the air: thrust and drag. Thrust is the power that pulls the kite forward - you run with it to get it up in the air. You have to have thrust to create lift. Drag is there because your kite's surfaces push against the air and slow the kite down. Drag doesn't pull you out of the sky; it makes you fly more slowly. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#62. Things became more civilized all of a sudden. Coffee does that. Or maybe it is women who do that. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#63. I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core. #Quote by Len Wein

#64. How did you ever get here, Maddie Brodatt?"
"'Second to the right, and then straight on till morning,'" she answered promptly-it did feel like Neverland.
"Crikey, am I so obviously Peter Pan?"
Maddie laughed. "The Lost Boys give it away."
Jamie studied his hands. "Mother keeps the windows open in all our bedrooms while we're gone, like Mrs. Darling, just in case we come flying home when she's not expecting us. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#65. Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#66. You know how sometimes when you come home and you haven't seen a place for so long that it seems unbelievably beautiful, and you want to cry because you love it so much you think it's going to break your heart? I felt like that, too. I am HOME. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#67. No seriously, I'm a 910-year-old time lord, tough as old boots. Eat me and you'll have terrible indigestion for the next twenty years. Don't say I didn't warn you! #Quote by Len Wein

#68. 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. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#69. Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#70. Emmy and I are still Habte Sadek's favorite foreigners, and it is all because I wanted to look at his feet when I was eleven years old! But it never hurts to be polite to people. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#71. Queenie, herself again, took hold of Maddie's hand and squeezed it tightly. She walked all the way back across the airfield without letting it go. Maddie closed her eyes and flew again in the ethereal pale green light. She knew she would never let it go. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#72. Look at me!' I screeched. 'Look at me, Amadeus von Linden, you sadistic hypocrite, and watch this time! You're not questioning me now, this isn't your work, I'm not an enemy agent spewing wireless code! I'm just a minging Scots slag screaming insults at your daughter! So enjoy yourself and watch! Think of Isolde! Think of Isolde and watch! #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#73. Here he comes, moving among the enemies all on his own. Do you see? He acts alone, but he is not alone. He has an army behind him, also, my army; and with our lives we will fight to defend him. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#74. Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary was beheaded, the people who were watching saw her skirts moving about and they thought her headless body was trying to get itself to its feet. But the movement turned out to be her dog, which she had carried to the block with her, hidden in her skirts. Mary Stuart is supposed to have faced her execution with grace and courage (she wore a scarlet chemise to suggest she was being martyred), but I don't think she could have been so brave if she had not secretly been holding tight to her Skye terrier, feeling his warm, silky fur against her trembling skin. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#75. Each force in flight is balanced by an opposing force. The opposite of lift is weight. Weight is always trying to pull an object back to earth, so to get something to stay up, lift has to be greater than weight. You'd think your weight would always be the same, but it isn't. When you do aerobatics or go into a dive - like a kite that's plunging into the sand at the beach - there's an increase in gravity, and that makes you weigh more. If you want your heavy kite to stay in the air, you have to increase the lift, as well. Maybe by waiting for a stronger wind. Maybe by finding a windier place to fly your kite. Maddie brought lift back into my life by forcing me outside. So did Bob, who introduced me to the editors of this magazine. So did Fernande, the chambermaid at the Paris Ritz, who gave me her daughter's clothes and made me get dressed and brought me coffee every morning for three weeks. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#76. The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it, it's just a comic book." #Quote by Len Wein

#77. Rhode Island has become a second home to me after being involved in its cultural life for over 61 years. I look upon it as a privilege to be inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame. #Quote by George Wein

#78. That's why we like to make things pretty; it's just'cause we're so dang sick of cleaning up horrible messes. Same instinct #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#79. We are a sensational team #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#80. That would be a slow and cruel death," said Gebe Meskal quietly. "He may survive a week on such a regime, but so little of a skin is not sufficient water for a man laboring in the desert."

Telemakos said through his teeth, "It is for a child. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#81. Whenever I'm looking for actors, I'm always looking for actors who are intelligent and who feel fresh and who feel authentic to the world. #Quote by Daryl Wein

#82. An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah. #Quote by George Wein

#83. 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. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#84. These are just stories, you know. They are part of what we are, but they are not the real thing. All this year I've been thinking, What would White Raven do? And today, every time I thought it, I just didn't care what White Raven would do. So today I've just done what I would do. I've just done what I think is right. I'm not going to stop making up stories. But I'm thinking now that they aren't just for pretending to be someone else, someone more exciting, someone braver than you really are. They are not always jut a maze to get lost in so you can run away from life. They can just as well be maps to help you navigate. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#85. The Rosalie really did not want to go like the clappers and performed its usual consumptive drama every time we came to an uphill slope, coughing and gasping like a dying Dickens heroine, and finally just stopped - engine still gasping a bit but the car just stopped. Simply could not move forward up the hill. Choke full out but cylinders firing pathetically as though we were trying to make the poor thing run on nothing but air. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#86. I don't want to just make relationship movies. I would love to do whatever feels like it's important and timely and needs to be told. It doesn't matter what genre. It doesn't have to just be relationships. #Quote by Daryl Wein

#87. My father brought me my first stack of comics, when I was seven years old and in the hospital. I was not a well child. And that's where my love for comics began. #Quote by Len Wein

#88. Tell me "The Subtle Briar" again,' she asked. She knew I would still know it by heart. I whispered to her in the dark.

'When you cut down the hybrid rose,
its blackened stump below the graft
spreads furtive fingers in the dirt.
It claws at life, weaving a raft
of suckering roots to pierce the earth.
The first thin shoot is fierce and green,
a pliant whip of furious briar
splitting the soil, gulping the light.
You hack it down. It skulks between
the flagstones of the garden path
to nurse a hungry spur in shade
against the porch. With iron spade
you dig and drag it from the gravel
and toss it living on the fire.

'It claws up towards the light again
hidden from view, avoiding battle
beyond the fence. Unnoticed, then,
unloved, unfed, it clings and grows
in the wild hedge. The subtle briar
armors itself with desperate thorns
and stubborn leaves – and struggling higher,
unquenchable, it now adorns
itself with blossom, till the stalk
is crowned with beauty, papery white
fine petals thin as chips of chalk
or shaven bone, drinking the light.

'Izabela, Aniela, Alicia, Eugenia,
Stefania, Rozalia, Pelagia, Irena,
Alfreda, Apolonia, Janina, Leonarda,
Czeslava, Stanislava, Vladyslava, Barbara,
Veronika, Vaclava, Bogumila, Anna,
Genovefa, Helena, Jadviga, Joanna,
Kazimiera, Ursula, Vojcziecha, Maria,
#Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#89. I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw. #Quote by Len Wein

#90. 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. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

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

#92. If I am very lucky - I mean if I am clever about it - I will get myself shot. Here, soon. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#93. The digital formats keep changing so rapidly. I feel like so many people are shooting digital but the quality is being lost. There's a texture and a richness to the 35 format that's incomparable. #Quote by Daryl Wein

#94. If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong. #Quote by Len Wein

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

#96. One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#97. I think women become more wrapped up emotionally in men when sex is involved. And I think men have a much easier time of having innocuous, meaningless sex for pleasure. It's just how we're built genetically. #Quote by Daryl Wein

#98. I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow. #Quote by Len Wein

#99. What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has. #Quote by Len Wein

#100. KISS ME, HARDY! Kiss me, QUICK! #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#101. But she did it. Because you do. It is incredible what you do, knowing you have to. A #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#102. I wish you could go through life without ever caring about anything, without ever getting attached to people and dreams and inaccessible places. It just makes you sad when you can never go back. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#103. I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival. #Quote by George Wein

#104. It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision. #Quote by Len Wein

#105. People are complicated. There is so much more to everybody than you realize. You see someone in school everyday, or at work, in the canteen, and you share a cigarette of a coffee with them, and you talk about the weather or last night's air raid. But you don't talk so much about what was the nastiest thing you ever said to your mother, or how you pretended to be David Balfour, the hero of Kidnapped, for the whole of the year when you were 13, or what you imagine yourself doing with the pilot who looks like Leslie Howard if you were alone in his bunk after a dance. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#106. 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. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#107. Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#108. There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer. #Quote by Len Wein

#109. Creating festivals made a major impact on society in general because you couldn't draw large crowds indoors. At Newport we were soon drawing crowds of 10,000 and there weren't halls that could hold that many people. #Quote by George Wein

#110. Doing the thing you are scared of is much harder than not being afraid of anything. It is easy to be brave. It is not so easy to be scared and do a brave thing anyway. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#111. It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in prison. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#112. Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback. #Quote by Len Wein

#113. I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms. #Quote by Len Wein

#114. Have you ever loved anything?"

"Yes. Yes. All the wrong things. The hunt, and darkness, and winter, and you, Godmother. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#115. These days, it seems that if you're not already in place, you can't get there from here. #Quote by Len Wein

#116. Which would you rather have––an unlimited supply of Chanel No. 5, or freedom? #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#117. 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. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#118. I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past. #Quote by Len Wein

#119. I am in the Special Operations Executive because I can speak French and German and am good at making up stories, and I am a prisoner in the Ormaie Gestapo HQ because I have no sense of direction whatsoever. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#120. Careless talk costs lives. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#121. If you've already worked in some capacity or done any internships, your contacts are everybody you've met in your work plus all your personal contacts. If you haven't been employed yet, you still have plenty of contacts. "Take out your college yearbook," says Wein. "Who sat next to you in class? Who do you know that's gone into the field you're interested in? You don't have to know them well to put them on the list." You'd also include any contacts your parents have, friends of your parents, people you met on family vacations, even kids you knew in summer camp. #Quote by Kate White

#122. There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed. #Quote by Len Wein

#123. I consider myself the luckiest man in the world. I have spent a lifetime doing what I love. #Quote by Len Wein

#124. How do you ever hold on to anybody? #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#125. It is possible there are some things you want so badly that you will change your life to make them happen. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#126. Everything I know about passive resistance I learned from Micheline. She always appeared to be doing exactly as she was told, but everything she did took twice as long as it should have. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#127. With her words in my mind while I'm reading, she is as real as I am. Gloriously daft, drop-dead charming, full of bookish nonsense and foul language, brave and generous. She's right here. Afraid and exhausted, alone, but fighting. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#128. She has the filthiest tongue of any woman in France. Burn her mouth clean. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#129. Queenie was devoted to careless name-dropping, scattering the details of her privileged upbringing without the faintest hint of modesty or embarrassment (though, after a while Maddie began to realize she only did it with people she liked or people she detested
those who didn't mind and those she didn't care about
anyone in between, or who might have been offended, she was more cautious with). #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#130. When you're an artist, your personal life and your professional life kind of blend together. I'm writing from home so I don't have an office or anything. I don't know where to draw the line between "Okay, let's stop now and watch American Idol." #Quote by Daryl Wein

#131. What makes you shiver so?"

He stared at me with hatred and derision. He sat with his knees drawn up close to his chest, his gloved hands in tight fists beneath his chin. "Come," I said, and held out an arm so that he might sit against my shoulder.

He muttered, "I don't want your cold."

"I offer you my warmth," I said.

Reluctantly, resentfully, he curled himself into the hollow between my arm and chest. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#132. A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not. #Quote by Len Wein

#133. Don't you think it makes them stronger when you give them someone to despise? #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#134. Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could. #Quote by Len Wein

#135. I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips. #Quote by Len Wein

#136. More than anything else, I think, Maddie went to war on behalf of the Holy Island seals. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#137. 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. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein

#138. I've always been the audience that I wanted to reach, so I write for myself. #Quote by Len Wein

#139. In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you. #Quote by Len Wein

#140. 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. #Quote by Elizabeth Wein