The Storm Quotes

“Dread?” I supply, and she nods. “That’s it. They play with you. And they take this thing you love—the water you swim in, take your babies to play in, drink beer looking out at. The wind that you smell and go, ‘Shoot, how’d I get so lucky to live at the beach?’ Wind that feels so good in your hair when you’re driving with the windows down. Hurricanes turn all that into the thing that blows off your roof, sucks away your photo albums and your wedding dress and your grandmamma’s china and sometimes your grandmamma herself. Killing you with the things you love? The things that made you feel so blessed to live here in the first place? Tell me that don’t feel”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Storm

“Ellen and I are having a baby”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Storm

“is the truth worth telling if all it can do is hurt someone you love?”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Storm

“You’ve got a lot on your shoulders”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Storm

“She might be sunshine at first glance”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Storm

“I’m reminded that sometimes even places we love can become weights around our necks.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Storm

“It’s going to sound stupid”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Storm

“Natural disasters are like that”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Storm

“Oh honey, they barely let us have anything. Why would we ever get to have it all?”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Storm

“No one wants to hear a rich person bitch about a goddamn thing”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Storm

“And you are probably used to men telling you you're a knockout. Which you are, make no mistake, but I wanted you to know that that's not why I'm writing. I've seen a lot of pretty girls in my life, Lo. "Pretty" isn't what has me awake at four in the morning, writing this with hands that, if I'm honest, are shaking a little bit.

It's going to sound stupid, but when I walked into The Line tonight and saw you there by the bar, I swear to God, it was like you just... glowed. Like there was a life force inside you that couldn't help but shine out. Like you swallowed starlight.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Storm

“And you are probably used to men telling you you're a knockout. Which you are, make no mistake, but I wanted you to know that that's not why I'm writing. I've seen a lot of pretty girls in my life, Lo. "Pretty" isn't what has me awake at four in the morning, writing this with hands that, if I'm honest, are shaking a little bit.

It's going to sound stupid, but when I walked into The Line tonight and saw you there by the bar, I swear to God, it was like you just... glowed. Like there was a life force inside you that couldn't help but shine out. Like you swallowed starlight.

[love letter to Lo from the Governer's son]”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Storm

“Memory is a tricky thing, though, especially when people start aging.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Storm

“The other thing about hope, though? It isn't just fatal, it's contagious.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Storm

“Murder is a chaotic thing. It's a violation of the natural order, an event that should never happen to any of us, an act none of us should ever commit, and yet every year the impossible happens over and over and over again.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Storm

“If they're questioning not 'Did she do it?' but 'Did a crime even happen here?' We're [expletive]”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Storm

“ONE”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Storm