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Dympna is a wealthy young woman and the first female pilot (and only female flight instructor) Maddie ever meets. She soon becomes Maddie’s mentor and friend. They meet when Dympna crashes her Puss Moth airplane into a field while Maddie watches. Later, Maddie seeks Dympna out at the airfield. Though Dympna is described as the sort of woman who has never touched or worked on her own plane’s engine, she’s still extremely knowledgeable about all the parts and how the engine works. Dympna helps Maddie learn to fly and, as the war progresses, helps Maddie move between military and civilian organizations so that Maddie can get more flight training. Eventually, she gets Maddie in with the Air Transport Auxiliary. Maddie knows that she’ll never be able to pay Dympna back for all the favors and help, so she decides to pay it forward instead by recommending Jamie for Special Duties.
Dympna Wythenshawe Quotes in Code Name Verity
The Code Name Verity quotes below are all either spoken by Dympna Wythenshawe or refer to Dympna Wythenshawe. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 1: Ormaie 8.XI.43 JB-S
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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.
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Part 1: Ormaie 9.XI.43 JB-S
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“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.”
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Dympna Wythenshawe Quotes in Code Name Verity
The Code Name Verity quotes below are all either spoken by Dympna Wythenshawe or refer to Dympna Wythenshawe. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 1: Ormaie 8.XI.43 JB-S
Quotes
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.
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Part 1: Ormaie 9.XI.43 JB-S
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“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.”
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