Dympna Wythenshawe Quotes in Code Name Verity
The words rattled around in Maddie’s head all the way to the telephone. Not “She’ll need to go to hospital if she’s been injured, but, “She’ll need to go to hospital if she’s been flying an airplane.”
A flying girl! thought Maddie. A girl flying an airplane!
No, she corrected herself; a girl /not/ flying a plane. A girl tipping up a plane in a sheep field.
But she flew it first. She had to be able to fly it in order to land it (or crash it).
The leap seemed logical to Maddie.
I’ve never crashed my motorbike, she thought. I could fly an airplane.
“I won’t be flying again, will I? […]”
Dympna stood smoking calmly in the evening sunlight and watched Maddie for a while. Then she said, “There’s going to be air work for girls in this war. You wait. They’re going to need all the pilots they can get fighting for the Royal Air Force. That’ll be the young men, some of them with less training than you’ve got now, Maddie. And that’ll leave the old men, and the women, to deliver new aircraft and carry their messages and taxi their pilots. That’ll be us.”
Dympna Wythenshawe Quotes in Code Name Verity
The words rattled around in Maddie’s head all the way to the telephone. Not “She’ll need to go to hospital if she’s been injured, but, “She’ll need to go to hospital if she’s been flying an airplane.”
A flying girl! thought Maddie. A girl flying an airplane!
No, she corrected herself; a girl /not/ flying a plane. A girl tipping up a plane in a sheep field.
But she flew it first. She had to be able to fly it in order to land it (or crash it).
The leap seemed logical to Maddie.
I’ve never crashed my motorbike, she thought. I could fly an airplane.
“I won’t be flying again, will I? […]”
Dympna stood smoking calmly in the evening sunlight and watched Maddie for a while. Then she said, “There’s going to be air work for girls in this war. You wait. They’re going to need all the pilots they can get fighting for the Royal Air Force. That’ll be the young men, some of them with less training than you’ve got now, Maddie. And that’ll leave the old men, and the women, to deliver new aircraft and carry their messages and taxi their pilots. That’ll be us.”
