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“Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.”
“Theres glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will”
“There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will”
“Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.”
“Oh Julie, wouldnt I know if you were dead? Wouldnt I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?”
“Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?”
“Look at me! I screeched. Look at me, Amadeus von Linden, you sadistic hypocrite, and watch this time! Youre not questioning me now, this isnt your work, Im not an enemy agent spewing wireless code!...”
“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 headles...”
“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.”
“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 the...”
“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.”
“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 ...”
“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 ...”
