The Storm Quotes

“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