"Resistance" Quotes
"Resistance" by Owen Sheers is a gripping alternate history novel that explores the lives and relationships of a small Welsh community resisting Nazi occupation after the fall of Britain in World War II.
historical fiction | 400 pages | Published in 2018
Quotes
All these years, all the training, the discipline, the endless preparation, and I still hadn't prepared myself for the way it would feel to kill a man.
I'm not going to die. Not today. Not now. Not here.
Sometimes the bravest thing is to do nothing. To just stay alive.
Time doesn't heal; it just makes you forget what you're missing.
Hope is the thing that will kill you in the end. It keeps you going until there's no reason left to keep going.
The hardest part about being brave is the moment before you begin.
War wasn't about killing; it was about waiting to be killed.
There's nothing more dangerous than a man who's got nothing to lose.
It's not the fallen that haunt us, it's the ones that keep getting up.
The silence was the worst. The silence that followed the end of a battle, when the world was still and you were left alone with the echoes of the dead and dying.
