“the wind is scary.. during a tornado or in life in general.. never know when a gust is going to come in your direction and change everything”
“In the great tornado of life, things sometimes seem out of control, and we can’t see where we are going. But sometimes, when the storm passes and the dust settles, things have landed into place beautifully.”
Source: Home Care CEO: A Parent's Guide to Managing In-home Pediatric Nursing
“Tornadoes were, in out part of Central Illinois, the dimensionless point at which parallel lines met and whirled and blew up. They made no sense.”
Source: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
“Todo en ella es cautivante, como la consecuencia de una tormenta. No se supone que la gente obtenga placer de la destrucción que la madre naturaleza es capaz de hacer, pero queremos mirar de todos modos. Charlie es la devastación dejada a raíz de un tornado.”
Source: Never Never
“Just because I'd learned how to take care of myself didn't mean I didn't still feel panic setting in every time she left me like this - all alone, with no clue when she'd be back, of or she'd ever be back at all. Even without a tornado on the way, it was always an open question.”
“My life is a puff of smoke in a tornado. We are all furiously whirling into nothingness.”
Source: Powdered Saxophone Music
“I once saw a moat bicycling around a castle. It was being chased by a soggy giraffe that had a tornado for a neck. I was on the overlooking grassy hill, selling lasagna-free duck soup by the slice to tourists from Nebraska.”
Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“Outside the rain began to pour in sheets, and the wind howled . Giant pieces of hail began to pelt the building— banging off the skylights so hard that Simpson worried the glass might shatter. Then, as it had earlier in the day, the wind briefly let up. It was then Simpson heard a sound she had dreaded —a sound she couldn’t believe she was actually hearing. It was 2: 40 P.M. and the tornado sirens in Moore started to wail.”
Source: The Mercy of the Sky: The Story of a Tornado
“Oh shit, this is really happening!” Mia cried, terrified.
“Holy crap, I’ve never been in a tornado!” Shane exclaimed as he went pale.
-Mia and Shane”
Source: Dissolve
“And yet Jane still couldn't help feeling sorry for the anticyclonic. That mutant left-handed runt of the liter... the poor damned giant evil beautiful thing...”
Source: Heavy Weather