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