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Quotes About Rain

She should offer to help, she thought. It seemed the right thing to do. But she was so dreadfully tired, and it was so pleasant to just sit in the big kitchen with rain drumming musically on the roof and watch him handle the simple task of making breakfast.
~ Nora Roberts
it rained as if the gods were disconsolate, as if spring were a sorrow
~ Claire Messud
Cold rain streaked the dark gray stone, trickling like tears down its smooth blank face.
~ Cleo Coyle
Adams chuckled. "The evenings are always nice. The Weather boys don't let it rain until later on, when everyone's asleep.
~ Clifford D. Simak
No, I had no dollars. The man struggled spider-legged away through the rain, leaving me struck by the illogic of things
~ Colin Thubron
A slow hour passed, distracted by intermittent drops of moisture from above, as if the sky were conducting a feasibility study on the implications of rain. Of committing to a course of action.
~ Colson Whitehead
The ticking was gone from my mind and all was quiet everywhere in the world and I held the curtain like I held the sound of the bullets going into the draft horse, his favourite, in the barn, one two three, and I stood at the window in Stevie's jacket and looked and waited and still the rain kept coming down outside one two three and I was thinking oh what a small sky for so much rain.
~ Colum McCann
Then the clouds curtsy in, the rain kneels upon the land, and the weather knocks them back a whole day and a half.
~ Colum McCann
Rain fell more steadily now. Grey and unrelenting. Nobody seemed to notice. Rain on the puddles. Rain on the high brickwork. Rain on the slate roofs. Rain on the rain itself.
~ Colum McCann
The mailman carried around huge bags of gloom.
~ Colum McCann
A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane As night descends upon the fabled street: A lonely hansom splashes through the rain, And ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet. Here though the world explode, these two survive, And it is always eighteen ninety-five.
~ Vincent Starrett
The land was so distant that no shining roof or glittering window could be any longer seen. The tremendous weight of the shadowed earth had engulfed such frail fetters, such snail-shell encumbrances. Now there was only the liquid shadow of the cloud, the buffeting of the rain, a single darting spear of sunshine, or the sudden bruise of the rainstorm. Solitary trees marked distant hills like obelisks.
~ Virginia Woolf
A daddy-long-legs shot from corner to corner and hit the lamp globe. The wind blew straight dashes of rain across the window, which flashed silver as they passed through the light. A single leaf tapped hurriedly, persistently, upon the glass. There was a hurricane out at sea.
~ Virginia Woolf
And then the shower fell, sudden, profuse. No one had seen the cloud coming. There it was, black, swollen, on top of them. Down it poured like all the people in the world weeping. Tears. Tears. Tears.
~ Virginia Woolf
A wet day. And I am glad of the rain, because I have talked too much.
~ Virginia Woolf
I raged, and woke to hear the rain.
~ Virginia Woolf
I want pure colors, melting clouds, accurately drawn details, a sunburst above a receding road with the light reflected in furrows and ruts, after rain. And no girls ... There is one subject which I am emphatically opposed to: any kind of representation of a little girl.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
And in the meantime the rain had become a voluptuous shower.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I was proceeding slowly one afternoon through torrents of rain and kept seeing that red ghost swimming and shivering with lust in my mirror, when presently the deluge dwindled to a patter, and then was suspended altogether.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
but I say give me rain, rain, rain on the shingle roof for roses and inspiration every time
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Je me retrouvai seul, roulant sous la pluie du jour agonisant, et les essuie-glace étaient en pleine action, mais que pouvaient-ils contre mes larmes ?
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk. The rain makes running pools in the gutter. The rain plays a little sleep-song on our roof at night– And I love the rain.
~ Langston Hughes
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
~ Langston Hughes
It's barely sprinkling." He smiled. "Don't be a wuss." "I'm absolutely a wuss. I need coffee.
~ Laura Griffin