The White Rose Quotes

“If you admit you need people, you can lose them.' Her gaze sharpens, returning to the present. 'But needing people can save your life.”
― Amy Ewing, The White Rose

“Surrogates are not just silly girls, to be bought and sold and treated like pets or furniture. We are a force to be reckoned with.”
― Amy Ewing, The White Rose

“Nature is unselfish," she says. "It only wishes to survive. Humanity inflicts harm on it, digs up the earth, poisons the waters, harnesses rock and metal and stone for its own purposes. We are the protectors. We are the connection between humanity and nature. Nature is always searching for balance.”
― Amy Ewing, The White Rose

“We all have things we are ashamed of.”
― Amy Ewing, The White Rose

“I think you can do anything you put your mind to”
― Amy Ewing, The White Rose

“I look at my reflection and can almost believe I'm capable of something incredible.”
― Amy Ewing, The White Rose

“This is about a race of people enslaved and made extinct.”
― Amy Ewing, The White Rose

“It hardens you, living in that place. It holds up a mirror and shows you the very worst parts of humanity. It changes people.”
― Amy Ewing, The White Rose

“They can be remarkably helpful, the dregs of society. And they love rebelling against authority.”
― Amy Ewing, The White Rose

“The royalty take and take and it never seems to be enough for them. They steal girls to make their babies, boys to protect them, or seduce them, or serve them. But we are not objects. We are not the latest fashion or the most expensive prize. We are people. And I'm going to help make them see that.”
― Amy Ewing, The White Rose

“Don't recite that royal line of crap at me.”
― Amy Ewing, The White Rose

“She wants to believe in the magic and the mystery of it. She doesn't seem to understand that we are part of that magic.”
― Amy Ewing, The White Rose

“They can't keep us from being who we are anymore. They can no longer be allowed to dictate our lives.”
― Amy Ewing, The White Rose

“If you admit you need people, you can lose them. But needing people can save your life.”
― Amy Ewing, The White Rose

“We all have things we need to do, no matter how reckless or foolish.”
― Amy Ewing, The White Rose

“Don't start acting like you're responsible for everyone's problems. I make my own choices. So do you.. Being lied to or bribed or coerced doesn't qualify as making a choice”
― Amy Ewing, The White Rose

“Can I not have the same freedom you have? To choose what I want. Choice is freedom, Violet.”
― Amy Ewing, The White Rose

“I know you're alone in this thing, that I can't possibly understand what you're going through. But I can be here with you. For you. That, at least, I am capable of. So here I am.”
― Amy Ewing, The White Rose