Quotes from book
Rose Under Fire

Name: Rose Under Fire
Author: Elizabeth Wein

Elizabeth Wein

Rose Under Fire is a young adult historical novel by Elizabeth Wein, set in World War II and published in 2013.

“You can't just sit in a corner weeping or you'll die.”

Elizabeth Wein book Rose Under Fire

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

Elizabeth Wein book Rose Under Fire

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“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 book Rose Under Fire

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“Fight with realistic
hope, not to destroy

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

Elizabeth Wein book Rose Under Fire

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

Elizabeth Wein book Rose Under Fire

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“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 book Rose Under Fire

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“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 book Rose Under Fire

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“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 book Rose Under Fire

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

Elizabeth Wein book Rose Under Fire

Source: Rose Under Fire

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