Rose Under Fire Quotes.

1. "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

2. "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

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

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

5. "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

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

7. "God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something."
- Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire

8. "Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing."
- Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire

9. "You can't just sit in a corner weeping or you'll die."
- Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire

10. "TELL THE WORLD!"
- Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire