Elizabeth Wein Quotes.

1. "I felt like one who wants to trap and cage a little bird, and after years of waiting and luring and baiting finds that she must do no more than hold out her hand, and the finch lands on her finger and does not fly. You scarcely dare to move. It rests on your hand whole and free, foolishly trusting and infinitely courageous. It will never be more beautiful."
- Quote by Elizabeth Wein

2. "I, of course, took the opportunity to interpose with pigheaded Wallace pride, 'I am not English, you ignorant Jerry bastard, I am a SCOT."
- Quote by Elizabeth Wein

3. "She has the filthiest tongue of any woman in France. Burn her mouth clean."
- Quote by Elizabeth Wein

4. "Maddie held her lightly, thinking she would let go when her friend stopped crying. But she cried for so long that Maddie fell asleep first. So she didn't ever let go."
- Quote by Elizabeth Wein

5. "Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting."
- Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire

6. "But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up."
- Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire

7. "Hope is treacherous, but how can you live without it?"
- Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire

8. "It is so hard trying to say what you mean."
- Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire

9. "It's an illusion I've noticed before-- words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only lasts while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or pen, the pistons fall lifeless again."
- Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire

10. "Fight with realistic hope, not to destroy all the world's wrong, but to renew its good."
- Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire