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“Everything I know about passive resistance I learned from Micheline. She always appeared to be doing exactly as she was told, but everything she did took twice as long as it should have.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire

“But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without something buoying them up.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire

“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

“Incredible. It is just incredible that you can notice something like that when your face is so cold you can't feel it anymore, and you know perfectly well you are surrounded by death, and the only way to stay alive is to endure the howling wind and hold your course. And still the sky is beautiful.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire

“Taran. We go down fighting.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire