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The Cloud God is the divine being with responsibility for Tasmania’s rain. She feeds the Esk Rivers and is the Esk God’s lover, a relationship that highlights the interdependent, complex cycles of nature. When she realizes the Esk God has died, the Cloud God unleashes a historical downpour which puts out the raging fire Charlotte has inadvertently begun, demonstrating the power of nature to overwhelm, disrupt, and sometimes even heal human lives.
The Cloud God Quotes in Flames
The Flames quotes below are all either spoken by The Cloud God or refer to The Cloud God. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Quotes
The cloud’s rage howled on, pushing the storm east and west, north and south. Fields became bogs; ponds became lakes; wombats swam like water rats, and water rats cavorted like seals, drunk on the storm’s power. A muscly current turned Tunbridge into Nobridge. The Avoca post office was washed clean of all its letters. Hours after it broke over Notley, the storm reached the southern capital’s sprawling suburbs. It lashed the huddled houses before pouring onto the shiny docks, where fortuned of yachts clattered against weathered concrete.
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The Cloud God Quotes in Flames
The Flames quotes below are all either spoken by The Cloud God or refer to The Cloud God. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Cloud
Quotes
The cloud’s rage howled on, pushing the storm east and west, north and south. Fields became bogs; ponds became lakes; wombats swam like water rats, and water rats cavorted like seals, drunk on the storm’s power. A muscly current turned Tunbridge into Nobridge. The Avoca post office was washed clean of all its letters. Hours after it broke over Notley, the storm reached the southern capital’s sprawling suburbs. It lashed the huddled houses before pouring onto the shiny docks, where fortuned of yachts clattered against weathered concrete.
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