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Quotes About Storm

Supe entonces, con humildad, con perplejidad, en un arranque de mexicanidad absoluta, que estábamos gobernados por el azar y que en esa tormenta todos nos ahogaríamos, y supe que sólo los más astutos, no yo ciertamente, iban a mantenerse a flote un poco más de tiempo.
~ Roberto Bolano
The night was dark as pitch or coal. Stupid expressions, thought Pereda. European nights might be pitch-dark or coal-black, but not American nights, which are dark like a void, where there's nothing to hold on to, no shelter from the elements, just empty, storm-whipped space, above and below.
~ Roberto Bolano
The truth is like a strung-out pimp in the middle of a storm.
~ Roberto Bolano
A medio hacer, ni crudos ni cocidos, bipolares capaces de cabalgar el huracán.
~ Roberto Bolano
Afuera la gente camina a prisa, encogida, no como si aguardaran una tormenta, sino como si la tormenta ya estuviera aquí, sin embargo, nadie parece tener miedo.
~ Roberto Bolano
process called cytokine storm. It's when the body's immune system senses the virus antigens and then goes berserk, releasing a bevy of extraordinarily damaging hormonelike proteins.
~ Robin Cook
He thought perhaps it was a woman's way, to come out of such a storm of emotion and pain as if she were a ship emerging onto calm seas. She had seemed, not at peace, but emptied of sorrow. As if she had run out of that particular emotion and no other one arose to take its place.
~ Robin Hobb
I have been in howling storms in which a shout is reduced to a whisper, moved across the sea's featureless face in a gray fog that does not yield to human eyes.
~ Robin Hobb
The fire of my burning past sent odd shadows snaking ahead of us as we made our way into the storm's resurgence.
~ Robin Hobb
Fitz, you are angry. I can feel it like storm waves lashing my shores.
~ Robin Hobb
was as charged as if a storm were brewing. It was a storm, she told herself, and one her father had seen gathering for years. Still, it humbled her to watch an old captain like Tenira announce that he would call the first bolt down on himself.
~ Robin Hobb
Tomorrow was a big day in Storm. She didn't want to miss one moment of it.
~ Lisa Mondello
rain obliterated the outlines of the houses
~ Lisa Scottoline
There was a typhoon the day you were born... It is said that a Dragon born in a storm will have a particularly tempestuous fate. You always believe you are right, and this makes you do things you shouldn't... You're a Dragon, and of all the signs only a Dragon can tame the fates. Only a Dragon can wear all the horns of destiny, duty, and power. Your sister is merely a Sheep...
~ Lisa See
Oh the weather outside is frightful...
~ Lois Lowry
And he saw Thire, in a helmet with bright crimson flares. He was searching for something. And with him was another presence—one that felt like a vast storm in the Force, full of malice and greed. Troubled, Yoda opened his eyes.
~ Lou Anders
The bigger the storm, the brighter the rainbow.
~ Louis Sachar
He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Though it came in such a very simple guise, that was the crowning moment of both their lives, when, turning from the night and storm and loneliness to the household light and warmth and peace waiting to receive them, with a glad Welcome home! Jo led her lover in, and shut the door.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Several family members sought Rockefeller's help to withstand the storm.
~ Ron Chernow
Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us, And black are the waters that sparkled so green. The moon, o'er the combers, looks downward to find us At rest in the hollows that rustle between. Where billow meets billow, then soft be thy pillow, Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease! The storm shall not wake thee, nor shark overtake thee, Asleep in the arms of the slow-swinging seas! —Seal Lullaby
~ Rudyard Kipling
The wind is shifting gradually around to the north and the rain has intensified. It's nearly dawn when he crosses the state line into Alabama, and finally it enters his mind that a hurricane has come in off the Gulf and he has been driving straight through it for the last several hours.
~ Russell Banks
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.
~ Ruth Fulton Benedict
It was on the Wednesday after the great storm that Mr. Geronimo first noticed that his feet no longer touched the ground.
~ Salman Rushdie