Code Name Verity Perseverance Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Part.Date.Paragraph) or (Part.Section.Paragraph)

Quote #4

I stood up. It is pointless backing against the wall, and I have stopped bothering about my hair. But the Wallace in me still makes me want to face the enemy on my feet. (1.24.XI.43.4)

Julie keeps getting up, even when it's not smart, just like she keeps playing the game. We suppose stubbornness is also an element of perseverance.

Quote #5

"Eva Seiler," he breathed. "You might have spared yourself a great deal of suffering if you had confessed this sooner."

"But I wouldn't have been able to write it all down if I'd done that," I wept. "So it was worth it."
(1.24.XI.43.37-38)

This happens after Julie reveals she is Eva Seiler, false government liaison to Berlin. Again, it's essential to Julie that she write down her "confession," because the confession is how she's going to communicate information about the Ormaie Gestapo to Damask circuit.

Quote #6

Please God. Oh why am I so coarse and thoughtless? Whatever it is now, I dread not being able to finish almost more than I dre (1.25.XI.43.47)

Shudder. Double shudder. Unfinished sentences give us the creeps because we wonder what interrupts them. Julie's really determined to finish this confession, so determined that she wants to finish it more than she wants to avoid something that is no doubt pretty awful.