Code Name Verity Anniversary Edition
Reviews

I've loved this book as it is as the original edition, and I love it even more now
Highlights

I believe that what makes us human is our enhanced ability for empathy. We don't just feel pity or happiness for other living people: we can feel pity and happiness for anyone who ever existed. Thousands of years of history, billions of other human lives, can inhabit the small space of each of our brains so we have consciousness enough to recognise it. It is a god-like quality, if you think about it... It is our superpower, and our tragedy... and you help to pass on the memory of those real people who fought and failed and triumphed in a war we must never repeat.
THIS. THIS. THIS. ALL OF IT.

When I can't sleep, I lie in the dark imagining a concert and a flute and a younger girl standing ready to play, drawing breath with her fingers hovering over the keys and her lips over the mouthpiece of her flute-- a new girl, someone full of hope who can give new life to that music.
OH, ENGEL 😭