Best War Survivor Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“This hand, it is mine, yet when I pick up a pencil it has a mind of its own. It has a story to draw, beating the breath of life through its lines and shapes, across the wide, open paper. If I just attune myself to the unravelling melody, I know I will be able to take that journey and heal the torn, aching world.”

Art Hope Spiritual Growth Heal The World Breath Of Life War Survivor Hand Life

Book:All the Hope We Carry

Source: All the Hope We Carry

“I am reaching towards the sun. A source of comfort and reassurance. I swear I can see Claire’s face in its luminescence. She is smiling at me.”

Growth Spiritual Guidance War Survivor Radiant Energy Light Absorption Natural Connection

Book:All the Hope We Carry

Source: All the Hope We Carry

“We must fight for our hopes, Samuel, they are too precious to lose. If we carry enough hope, we can heal the world. So, let this light carry our hopes and dress the world in bright colours, just like this alluring rainbow.”

War Rainbow War Survivor Light Of Hope Bright Colours Carry Hope Fight For Hope

Book:All the Hope We Carry

Source: All the Hope We Carry

“I feel the searing, burning of my hands, caught alight by the red-tipped fire. Silent I am, mesmerised by the flames that have now caught me in their trap. Fire is bad. Fire takes people away. Claire’s words are accurate. I am in a burning dream world. One that I may never leave. My hands and arms are now alight and my eyes are stinging with tears.”

War Fire Danger Metaphor Burning Wrath Dream World Trap Contemporary Fantasy War Survivor

Book:All the Hope We Carry

Source: All the Hope We Carry

“Instinctively, I flap my arms beside me, streaking fire across the sky with my red flamed, fluttering wings. High I am, staring down at the creased world below me. A world that I have sworn to protect.”

War Fire Protect Instinct Flame Defend Contemporary Fantasy War Survivor Burnt Wings

Book:All the Hope We Carry

Source: All the Hope We Carry

“The familiar tune returns, its drifting quality heightened in pitch, like the sound of a bird, free flying through the soft breeze. I allow myself to believe that I may just be that bird, taking a small adventure across my tiny island. I could have wings that soar, high above the red stained streets into a much calmer, brighter sky.”

War Spiritual Bird Memory Visualization Tune War Survivor Yearning For Freedom Flight Of Freedom Soaring Wings

Book:All the Hope We Carry

Source: All the Hope We Carry

“I am knee deep in sea water now, feeling the energy of the tidal waves as they roll inwards towards the shore. A tide that exhales life spent, across its great, red stained sea. Its waves’ beats are out of sync, as they crawl slowly towards land.”

War Metaphor Tidal Waves Nature Connection War Survivor Out Of Sync Inland Life Spent Tidal Energy

Book:All the Hope We Carry

Source: All the Hope We Carry

“Six months after Lucien traveled to Australia, Mum left her son, her parents, her brothers and sisters, her work, her friends and her country, sailed over the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, through the Suez Canal, across the Indian Ocean, into the Pacific and joined her husband in Sydney to start a new life. That's the sort of thing people did back then. Everyone was starting again after the war, after losing mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, children, husbands and wives. It seems shocking now, but there wasn't such a sentimental attitude towards family or such a fear of death then as we have now. (People who live through wars often develop attachment disorders as protection from loss.)”

New Life New Beginnings Leaving Home Leaving The Past War Survivor Attachment Disorder

Book:To Throw Away Unopened

Source: To Throw Away Unopened

“If I close my weary eyes, I can shut the dark out, just for a single moment and see the world I hope to see. Unravel its detail does, so slowly in the dim light. It is a fragile dream, half awake, half asleep. Sketches of a world I yearn to reach.”

Hope Sketch Envisioning Spiritual Energy War Survivor Blocking Darkness Fragile Dream

Book:All the Hope We Carry

Source: All the Hope We Carry

“In this land the only explosions were those of laughter, the only breaking was of bread, and the only shootings we're of stars across the clear Brazzaville sky”

War Survivor

Book:Kids of Appetite

Source: Kids of Appetite

“He'd thought he'd outlived war. Ultimately, war outlived everyone.”

War Terror War Survivor Outlive Survivor Of War

Book:The Wake Up

Source: The Wake Up

“The old man reached behind his head and unlatched his necklace . . . and retrieved the solid gold Star of David pendant attached to it. Max handed the pendent to his grandson.”

Danger Abuse Survivors Legal Thriller War Survivor

Book:L'DOR V'DOR: From Generation to Generation

Source: L'DOR V'DOR: From Generation to Generation

“I am pressing my palm gently against the coraline limestone. It feels warm against my skin, alerting me to my own physical presence in this moment. My body exists right here, right now. I feel the rare, radiant rays of the sun, warming my neck and back. Steady the light is, not fading away this time.”

Light Steadfastness Nature Connection War Survivor Natural Spirit Radiant Energy Active Presence Physical Presence

Book:All the Hope We Carry

Source: All the Hope We Carry