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Quotes About Puddles

The rain never holds anyone back. Her umbrella becomes a halo that goes wherever she goes outdoors, while her bare feet happily slosh through puddles.
~ Abraham Verghese
The horizon was shitting a sun, casting a glow on a layer of fog that was settling in the low areas like puddles of ghost piss.
~ David Wong
Ah come on, these streams of light are not so subtle. All along the ditch, signs of life in sinking puddles!
~ Sarah Harmer
Bright colors don't exist in the ghetto, except for the yellow stars and puddles of red blood that we carefully step around. "More shootings," Papa says quietly. His face is gray.
~ Jennifer Roy
The dawn of the new millennium had been so exciting just twelve days ago, when Glasgow and the rest of the world hailed its arrival amid a spree of wild partying and hopes for a new beginning. Right now, all of that seemed a long time ago, as Nikki and Julie carefully trod over the slush and puddles, the freezing sleet slapping their faces.
~ Anna Smith
Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms, and little wildflowers.
~ Roberto Bolano
Along its raw dirt floor, puddles of afternoon rain reflected the starlit sky, like jagged slivers of mirror.
~ Scott Westerfeld
I am your stone of necessity calling up spirits from rain puddles—your Magus of words
~ john j geddes
Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds.
~ Arundhati Roy
Bird speech at the circle of willis results in migrant noises or 'puddles' that amass near the head of the pedestrian, rallying it toward a form of disruption within the flowing crowd.
~ Ben Marcus
Numbers of men, or things which had been men, dropped to the floor and began lapping at the puddles of spilled liquor, but most remained immovable, watching the unprecedented actions of the barroom drudge and derelict.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
You know that thing about Death Be Not Proud? Well, Fear Be Not Proud either. And Fear Be Not Elegant. What Fear be is stumbling, bumbling flight, crashing through brush, slip-sliding on pine needles, sloshing through puddles that are always deeper than you expect.
~ Josh Lanyon
By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were full of vast puddles where the drains where unable to cope with the volume of water. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you would think that if one nation ought by now to have mastered the science of drainage, Britain would be it.
~ Bill Bryson
The last of the night's tears churned down gunnels and swirled along street gutters. Muddy puddles filled potholes, reflecting
~ Steven Erikson
His eyes were the color of the scrim that forms on street puddles in January. A cold and dirty gray.
~ J.D. Robb
The profusion of cherry lights, flashlights and headbeams darted over the lot, picking out details: mud puddles reflecting moonlight and shadows, the neon haze of Hollywood in the distance.
~ James Ellroy
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
Rain utters poetry in drops, splats, and puddles.
~ Terri Guillemets
The voice of the nickly reflection of the moon was not as deep as you might expect. It was a singer's voice, though, a tenor, one that loved itself without reservation. "I feel time like you dream. Your dreams are jumbled. You can't remember the order of your dreams, and when you recall them, the memories bend. Faces change. It's all in puddles and ripples. That's what time is for me.
~ Dave Eggers
Even saints do not smile sweetly when God throws them into mud puddles. Only pigs do that.
~ Peter Kreeft
In the afternoons, in the long pre-nights to Lima's winter, Herr Oswald Teller, from his mildewy room, flooded the house with music and homesickness and geniality. Liquefied Mozart poured down the staircase and formed puddles in the hollows like a torrent of rain that had soaked through the roof.
~ Unknown
As she spoke, Mrs Elm's eyes came alive, twinkling like puddles in moonlight.
~ Matt Haig
If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of "danger" on the floor around them. Look, it's "danger", don't step in it!
~ Mercedes Lackey