The Stormchasers Quotes

“Information trumps fear, right?”
― Jenna Blum, The Stormchasers

“Kevin was right, Karena thinks, there is grotesquerie here, but it's not Karena and Charles. It's Charles's disorder, the way it reduces a grown man to sobbing panic on the floor. The way it renders Karena unable to feel. The way it takes you by the hand, nodding and smiling slyly, and leads you back to the same old place every time, so just when you think everything might be all right after all, you come home and open a door to a room full of blood.”
― Jenna Blum, The Stormchasers

“They change my brain. So in essence, what you're saying I should do is compromise my very self, my understanding and feeling of who I am, to conform to what you want. Is that it?”
― Jenna Blum, The Stormchasers

“How many times have I heard you Whirlwind guys say that even now, after all these years of research, nobody knows why one supercell spawns a tornado and another doesn't? Why wouldn't that be the case for people too? Every brain is different and responds differently to treatment, and what might not help one person, for instance holistic medicine, might help the next.”
― Jenna Blum, The Stormchasers

“They call him a wicasa wakan, Charles says. A divine man. A blessed man. Sure, somebody whose soul is eroded more quickly that other people's especially if he uses his talents to help them. Because he can see things others can't, and that's a psychic burden. Still. It's not stigmatized like it is in our culture. It's viewed as it should be, with respect.”
― Jenna Blum, The Stormchasers

“Just that ever since I was very little I'd had this--affliction, or gift, or whatever you want to call it; that I have visions. And that this is something I accept about myself as part of who I am, a scary part sometimes , but also the best part of me because it makes me who I am, you know? It helps me understand things.”
― Jenna Blum, The Stormchasers

“The Mississippi flows slowly by and the sun shines clean over everything, and Karena knows Tiff thinks she is crying because of Charles, because her brother is stuck in a mental asylum instead of out and about on this beautiful day the way he should be, healthy and alert and comfortable in his own skin.”
― Jenna Blum, The Stormchasers

“Time will fold over the past if you let it.”
― Jenna Blum, The Stormchasers

“Yes, Charles is a genius, and he loves his manias. But Charles's disorder is the gift nobody wants to be given. There is no cure for it, no solution. Either Charles takes his medications and suffers, or he doesn't and everyone else does. It is colossally, sickeningly, definitively unfair.”
― Jenna Blum, The Stormchasers

“Reality is subjective, don't you know that by now? It's how we experience the world that makes it real to us.”
― Jenna Blum, The Stormchasers

“The amount of all the pretending she'll have to do exhausts her.”
― Jenna Blum, The Stormchasers

“But I'm going to prove there's a link between storms that rapid-cycle and ones that produce tornadoes because I'm a rapid cycler myself.”
― Jenna Blum, The Stormchasers

“Severe weather is just Nature's way of correcting an imbalance.”
― Jenna Blum, The Stormchasers

“How warm the day can be when the wind is at your back.”
― Jenna Blum, The Stormchasers