Hurricane Quotes

“Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.”
― Bob Dylan

“There will always be those
who say you are too young and delicate
to make anything happen for yourself.
They don't see the part of you that smolders.
Don't let their doubting drown out
the sound of your own heartbeat.

You are the first drop of rain in a hurricane.

Your bravery builds beyond you.
You are needed by all the little girls
still living in secret, writing oceans
made of monsters, and
throwing like lightning.
You don't need to grow up
to find greatness.

You are so much stronger than the world
has ever believed you could be.
The world is waiting for you
to set it on fire. Trust in yourself

and burn.”
― Clementine von Radics, Mouthful of Forevers

“Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.”
― Dave Eggers, Zeitoun

“Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not f*ck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I’m going to destroy you, little man!" Sourcefield yelled after me. "I’ll rip you apart like a piece of tissue paper in a hurricane!"
"Wow," I said, reaching an intersection and taking cover by an old mailbox.
"What?" Tia asked.
"That was a really good metaphor.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Firefight

“People seemed to believe that technology had stripped hurricanes of their power to kill. No hurricane expert endorsed this view.”
― Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

“Just as not all butterflies produce a hurricane, not all outbreaks of bubonic plague produce a Renaissance.”
― Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley

“She was evil. Couldn't he, who killed demons with his own hands, realize that? And now I had to run for Mardi Gras Queen because of him. Or her. I didn't know whose fault it was but there was no way I could back down now.”
― Jenna-Lynne Duncan, Aftermath

“What fools we mortals are to think that the plans we make are anything more than a soap bubble blown against a hurricane, a frail and fleeting wish destined to burst.”
― Barbara Nickless, Ambush

“You can make a day of any size.”
― Mario Iezzoni, Kracker Flats

“You should not be living in places that require you to evacuate when a storm comes through.”
― Steven Magee

“A lot of people are going to get rich from rebuilding Florida after the hurricane Ian disaster.”
― Steven Magee

“Silence can be a form of fraud.”
― Steven Magee

“COVID-19 increased during the Hurricane Ian aftermath in Florida.”
― Steven Magee

“Leaking roofs were a problem after hurricane Ian.”
― Steven Magee

“Many schools were closed after hurricane Ian.”
― Steven Magee

“A lot of hurricane Ian bodies are going to come ashore when the next big hurricane hits the Fort Myers area in Florida!”
― Steven Magee

“Mail boxes were a mass casualty event in hurricane Ian.”
― Steven Magee

“Rebuild and possibly repeat or acknowledge the dangers and leave?”
― Steven Magee

“Loadsabodies?”
― Steven Magee

“Dangerous mold and bacteria invaded Florida in the hurricane Ian aftermath!”
― Steven Magee

“Florida roads were littered with sinkholes after hurricane Ian.”
― Steven Magee

“After four weeks, things were improving in the Florida hurricane Ian disaster.”
― Steven Magee

“I would never have thought a hurricane that was 500 miles away could destroy historic Lahaina town.”
― Steven Magee

“The freshwater fish crisis is a manifestation of the complex interplay between climate change and a myriad of human-induced threats. Recognising the interconnectedness of these challenges is the first step towards crafting effective solutions.”
― Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“A hurricane is an ocean come walking.”
― Max Gladstone, Crispin's Model

“Sanibel Island is an alluring paradox. A primordial landscape, buzzing with tourists. A tropical hideaway where storybook sunsets heal souls, and violent hurricanes destroy property. A cherished corner of Old Florida, in the midst of a modernizing metamorphosis. Where unfettered wildness thrives, even as ecological challenges mount. A dream place where I can explore the boundaries between coastal textures, the rhythm of nature, and the stuff of humankind; and create art that is honest and authentic.”
― Eric J. Taubert

“Florida's weather on the coast comes in, wipes you out like a giant with a weed whacker and zips out. Maine winters creep in like a python on little cat feet, take years to squeeze the life out of you, and never seem to leave.”
― Robert Karl Skoglund

“It’s like denying a hurricane or a tidal wave. Nico is my natural disaster, he’s my pleasure incarnate, he’s my sins made flesh and I want him to take me, ravish me, turn me into something I never once dreamed.”
― B.B. Hamel, Broken by Sin

“Most people who survive a devastating disaster want the opposite of a clean slate: they want to salvage whatever they can and begin repairing what was not destroyed; they want to reaffirm their relatedness to the places that formed them. 'When I rebuild the city I feel like I'm rebuilding myself,' said Cassandra Andrews, a resident of New Orleans' heavily damaged Lower Night Ward, as she cleared away debris after the storm. But disaster capitalists have no interest in repairing what was. In Iraq, Sri Lanka, and New Orleans, the process deceptively called 'reconstruction' began with finishing the job of the original disaster by erasing what was left of the public sphere and rooted communities, then quickly moving to replace them with a kind of corporate New Jerusalem - all before the victims of war or natural disaster were able to regroup and stake their claims to what was theirs.”
― Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism