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.

He just put his hand through the bulkhead, exactly as she'd done, and squeezed my shoulder. He has very strong fingers. And he kept his hand there the whole way home, even when he was reading the map and giving me headings. So I am not flying alone now after all.

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.

It's impossible to stall a Lizzie.

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

Careless talk costs lives.

You can come back to friendship. You can let it drop, for five years or ten years, and come back to it.