Code Name Verity

Code Name Verity

by

Elizabeth Wein

Jamie is Julie’s favorite brother. He looks like a male version of Julie—blond, handsome, and charming—and becomes a pilot in the war. The first time Maddie meets him, though, Jamie is in the hospital after being shot down over the North Sea, which caused him to lose most of his fingers and all his toes to frostbite. After this, his siblings start to call him The Pobble Who Has No Toes, after a silly children’s poem by Edward Lear. As Maddie and Jamie get to know each other through their work as pilots, they come to respect each other greatly—and develop romantic chemistry. Maddie is the one to recommend Jamie seek out work with Special Duties, and Jamie advocates on several occasions for Maddie to be included on flights to France, for instance. However, Jamie does try to forbid Maddie from flying Julie to France. Jamie is, however, the pilot who eventually comes to take Maddie home from France—and when Maddie shares that she shot Julie, Jamie doubles down on his insistence that Maddie fly home. Despite being disturbed initially by Maddie’s confession, Jamie ultimately concludes that Maddie did the right thing.

Jamie Quotes in Code Name Verity

The Code Name Verity quotes below are all either spoken by Jamie or refer to Jamie. 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 23.XI.43 JB-S Quotes

He has a light nasal tenor—so beautiful. It hurt worse than being slapped, being shown the irony of his life. And of mine, of mine—OF MINE—Isolde alive in the day and the sun while I suffocate in Night and Fog, the unfairness of it, the random unfairness of everything, of me being here and Isolde being in Switzerland, and Engel not getting any cognac and Jamie losing his toes. And Maddie, Oh lovely Maddie,

MADDIE

Related Characters: Julie/The Narrator/Queenie/Verity (speaker), Maddie Brodatt, SS-Hauptsturmführer von Linden/The Captain, Anna Engel, Jamie, Georgia Penn, Isolde
Page Number: 181
Explanation and Analysis:
Part 2, Section 3 Quotes

Julie has vanished.

It’s true she made her first meeting—Tues. 12 Oct., the day after we got here, but then she simply disappeared as if she’d never been in France. Today’s the 21st. She’s been missing over a week.

I understand now why her mother plays Mrs. Darling and leaves the windows open in her children’s bedrooms when they’re away. As long as you can pretend they might come back, there’s hope. I don’t think there can be anything worse in the world than not knowing what’s happened to your child—not ever knowing.

Related Characters: Maddie Brodatt (speaker), Julie/The Narrator/Queenie/Verity, Jamie, Julie’s Mother
Related Symbols: Peter Pan
Page Number: 227
Explanation and Analysis:
Part 2, Section 6 Quotes

“I know what they’ll say. Silly girl, no brains, too soft, can’t trust a woman to do a man’s work. They only let us fly operational aircraft when they get desperate. And they’re always harder on us when we botch something.” All true, and what I said next was true too, but a bit petty—“You even get to keep your BOOTS and mine are BURNT.”

Related Characters: Maddie Brodatt (speaker), Jamie
Related Symbols: Boots
Page Number: 244
Explanation and Analysis:
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Jamie Quotes in Code Name Verity

The Code Name Verity quotes below are all either spoken by Jamie or refer to Jamie. 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:
Friendship Theme Icon
).
Part 1: Ormaie 23.XI.43 JB-S Quotes

He has a light nasal tenor—so beautiful. It hurt worse than being slapped, being shown the irony of his life. And of mine, of mine—OF MINE—Isolde alive in the day and the sun while I suffocate in Night and Fog, the unfairness of it, the random unfairness of everything, of me being here and Isolde being in Switzerland, and Engel not getting any cognac and Jamie losing his toes. And Maddie, Oh lovely Maddie,

MADDIE

Related Characters: Julie/The Narrator/Queenie/Verity (speaker), Maddie Brodatt, SS-Hauptsturmführer von Linden/The Captain, Anna Engel, Jamie, Georgia Penn, Isolde
Page Number: 181
Explanation and Analysis:
Part 2, Section 3 Quotes

Julie has vanished.

It’s true she made her first meeting—Tues. 12 Oct., the day after we got here, but then she simply disappeared as if she’d never been in France. Today’s the 21st. She’s been missing over a week.

I understand now why her mother plays Mrs. Darling and leaves the windows open in her children’s bedrooms when they’re away. As long as you can pretend they might come back, there’s hope. I don’t think there can be anything worse in the world than not knowing what’s happened to your child—not ever knowing.

Related Characters: Maddie Brodatt (speaker), Julie/The Narrator/Queenie/Verity, Jamie, Julie’s Mother
Related Symbols: Peter Pan
Page Number: 227
Explanation and Analysis:
Part 2, Section 6 Quotes

“I know what they’ll say. Silly girl, no brains, too soft, can’t trust a woman to do a man’s work. They only let us fly operational aircraft when they get desperate. And they’re always harder on us when we botch something.” All true, and what I said next was true too, but a bit petty—“You even get to keep your BOOTS and mine are BURNT.”

Related Characters: Maddie Brodatt (speaker), Jamie
Related Symbols: Boots
Page Number: 244
Explanation and Analysis: