Storm Quotes - Page 18

• I love you, I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more. I thought an hour ago that I loved you more than any woman has ever loved a man, but a half hour after that I knew that what I felt before was nothing compared to what I felt then. But ten minutes after that, I understood that my previous love was a puddle compared to the high seas before a storm.

  William Goldman

  Love You, Men, Sea

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.44, A&C Black

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• The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Despair, September, Cry

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.241, Macmillan

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• I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.

  Aime Cesaire

  Horse, Children, Rain

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• She can take a year to read something, whereas I like a book that becomes more important in my life that life itself. When I was in the middle of 'Red Storm Rising' by Tom Clancy - which was not selected for the Man Booker shortlist - you could have taken my liver out and fed it to the dog. And I wouldn't have noticed.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Dog, Book, Taken

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• Through wind, and tempest, storm, and rain; The calm shall be buried inside of me; A warm stone, heavy and dry; The root, the source, a weapon against pain

  Lauren Oliver

  Pain, Rain, Wind

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.434, Hachette UK

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• There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives." "And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives?" "That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can't protect by killing.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Son, Two, People

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.155, Macmillan

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• He had no one but himself to blame, for he’d opened himself up to it. Just a fraction at first, like a crack in a window. But the funny thing was, once you welcomed in a breeze, there was no stopping what came next. A wind, a storm, thunder and lightning, until you could no longer reach the window to close it—and didn’t really want to anyway. That’s what this new darkness was. Evil in its purest form... -Paris

  Gena Showalter

  Wind, Funny Things, Paris

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Seduction”, p.31, HQN Books

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• The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant events have their own Horsemen. For example, the Four Horsemen of the Common Cold are Sniffles, Chesty, Nostril, and Lack of Tissues; the Four Horsemen whose appearance foreshadows any public holiday are Storm, Gales, Sleet, and Contra-flow.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Holiday, Events

  "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.

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• You are the mountain, you are the rock You are the cord and you’re the spark You are the eagle, you are the lark You are the world and you’re remarkable You’re the ocean eating the shore You are the calm inside the storm You’re every emotion, you can endure You are the world and the world is yours. ((The World as I See It))

  Jason Mraz

  Ocean, Rocks, Eagles

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• You're not lost in a storm, Marilyn. You are the storm!

  Colin Clark

  Lost

  "My Week with Marilyn".

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• I am mountains that crush. I am waves that crash. I am storms that shatter. I am the end.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Crush, Mountain, Wave

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.630, Macmillan

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• Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.

  Russell Brand

  Rocks, Self, Destruction

  Russell Brand (2009). “My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Davy lets fly an oath and storms out of the hold. We hear his fist hit the wall as he leaves. you really are an evil girl, says Jaimy. I know, I murmur. I shall have to pay.

  L.A. Meyer

  Girl, Wall, Evil

  L. A. Meyer (2004). “Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy”, p.220, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Loving is a journey with water and with stars, with smothered air and abrupt storms of flour: loving is a clash of lightning-bolts and two bodies defeated by a single drop of honey.

  Pablo Neruda

  Stars, Journey, Air

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• Defeat, my defeat, my deathless courage, You and I shall laugh together with the storm, And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us, and we shall stand in the sun with a will, And we shall be dangerous

  Khalil Gibran

  Laughing, Together, Sun

  Khalil Gibran (1918). “The Madman”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

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• I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But I give myself to it. I circle around God, that primordial tower. I have been circling for thousands of years, And I still don't know: am I a falcon, A storm, or a great song? [I, 2]

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Song, Circles, Years

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• The storm was really giving it everything it had. This was its big chance. It had spent years hanging around the provinces, putting in some useful work as a squall, building up experience, making contacts, occasionally leaping out on unsuspecting shepherds or blasting quite small oak trees. Now an opening in the weather had given it an opportunity to strut its hour, and it was building up its role in the hope of being spotted by one of the big climates.

  Terry Pratchett

  Opportunity, Years, Building Up

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• It used to be thought that the events that changed the world were things like big bombs, maniac politicians, huge earthquakes, or vast population movements, but it has now been realized that this is a very old-fashioned view held by people totally out of touch with modern thought. The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.

  Neil Gaiman

  Butterfly, Views, Europe

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Regret, Flower, Men

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• Not everyone out in a storm wants to be saved

  Paula McLain

  Want, Saved

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.81, Ballantine Books

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• I buried him with mine own hands, in a place he showed me once when I was a squire at Storm’s End. No one shall ever find him there to disturb his rest.” He looked at Jaime defiantly. “I will defend King Tommen with all my strength, I swear it. I will give my life for his if need be. But I will never betray Renly, by word or deed. He was the king that should have been. He was the best of them.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Hands, Should Have

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2203, Bantam

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• The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.

  Terry Pratchett

  Simple, Tails, Sun

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “I Shall Wear Midnight: (Discworld Novel 38)”, p.92, Random House

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• I feel an extremely annoyed thunderstorm nearby," Kade warned. "Actually, I'm the one annoyed. The thunderstorm could go either way." - Storm Glass

  Maria V. Snyder

  Glasses, Annoyed, Way

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• But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into a screaming tornado,sweeping away her world, whirling her out of her sheltered life,and dropping her down in the midst of this still,haunted desolation.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Clouds, World, Four

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.550, Simon and Schuster

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• Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.

  Alan Lightman

  Past, Night, Reality

  Alan Lightman (2012). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.74, Hachette UK

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