Elizabeth E. Wein - Rose Under Fire (2013)

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

Elizabeth E. Wein

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 E. Wein

Fight with realistic hope, not to destroy all the world's wrong, but to renew its good.

Elizabeth E. Wein

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 E. Wein

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 E. Wein