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“To describe my mother would be to write about a storm in its perfect power.” Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“as he stood there, love came to Big Joe Portagee. It sang in his head; it roared through his body like a great freshet; it shook him as a tropical storm shakes a forest of palms.” John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat
“When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!” John Muir, Stickeen
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“Why, what's the matter that you have such a February face, so full of frost, of storm, and cloudiness?” William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“Snow-crystals, the flowers of the mountain clouds, are frail, beautiful things, but terrible when flying on storm-winds in darkening, benumbing swarms or when welded together into glaciers full of deadly crevasses.” John Muir, Stickeen
“Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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