Book Quotes – Middle Grade Carousel

The Sound of Thunder

"The room shook like it was going to fall to pieces for what seemed like a very long time. No one could hear Tom's and Di's screams, not even them. The thunder buried everything with its sound." -The Unknowns by Benedict Carey

Eye of the Storm

In the middle of a cyclone the air is generally still, but the great pressure of the wind on every side of the house raised it up higher and higher, until it was at the very top of the cyclone; and there it remained and was carried miles and miles away as easily as you could carry a feather.

The Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum

In Mourning

"Cemetery visits, Douglas believed, were best enjoyed when the weather was chilly, the sky was overcast, and nature itself seemed to be in mourning." -Death and Douglas by J. W. Ocker

Prolonged Gloom

"The weather in Kingsplot today was like the weather yesterday, and most likely the weather tomorrow--misty, with a chance of more mist and prolonged gloom. The sun was up there somewhere, but it was anyone's guess when it might actually man up and step out from behind the clouds to show itself." -Ambush by Obert Skye

In Training

"And you must be the junior Weatherman? Weatherman Junior? Weatherboy? I'm sorry, I don't know what a Weatherman-in-training calls himself." -The Maloneys' Magical Weatherbox by Nigel Quinlan

Scientific Explanation

"I know there is a true and scientific explanation of where the wind comes from. But I like to think it happens when clouds shrug their shoulders. When stars spin hard enough for a few lucky people on earth to get caught up in their cosmic whirl. Sometimes wind just feels like weather. But sometimes it feels special, like it's carrying something with it." -The Key to Extraordinary by Natalie Lloyd

Tumbling Around

I pretended I was not scared at all of a hurricane ripping our house up and possibly tumbling us around like we were socks in the dryer.

Justin Case: Shells, Smells, and the Horrible Flip-Flops of Doom
Rachel Vail