Quotes from book

Rose Under Fire

“Hope is treacherous, but how can you live without it?”

“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.”

“Fight with realistic
hope, not to destroy

all the world's wrong,
but to renew its good.”

“God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It is so hard trying to say what you mean.”