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Whoa, whoa! Hold up, there, kid. She lives in Forks, remember? So she gets rained on.

When this flood blocks the road I am worried more by my soil getting washed, than by getting late to...

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It was the kind of storm that suggests the whole sky has swallowed a diuretic.

It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rai...

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Like sheep which, having been driven to a pasture, can now spread out at their leisure, the clouds b...

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Terry PratchettThe Last Continent

You see," the tourist went on, "you know that thing you do with seaweed?"Bethan, brought up on the V...

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The vast world rainless, one may bid adieuTo charity and penance.

This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And ne...

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Although it was only six o'clock, the night was already dark. The fog, made thicker by its proximity...

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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.

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Truman CapoteOther Voices

A poor old Widow in her weedsSowed her garden with wild-flower seeds;Not too shallow, and not too de...

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The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the r...

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Yet the motion of the saw has not faltered, as though it and the arm functioned in a tranquil convic...

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After the rain cometh the fair weather.

...and with it would come that wonderful, unmistakable smell of rain, that smell of dust and water m...

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Alexander McCall SmithThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

It was raining when Rahel came back to Ayemenem. Slanting silver ropes slammed into loose earth, plo...

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Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless...

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Arundhati RoyThe God of Small Things

sometimes falling raincarries memories of betrayalthere in the woodswhere she was not meant to betoo...

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Bell hooksAppalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

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Bill WattersonThe Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

On gray days, when it's snowing or raining, I think you should be able to call up a judge and take a...

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Bill WattersonThere's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

Some days you get up and you already know that things aren't going to go well. They're the type of d...

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Bill WattersonThere's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought ...

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My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as ...

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The sky, drunk with spring and giddy with its fumes, thickened with clouds. Low clouds, drooping at ...

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The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father...

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Got caught in the rain, I see," - Isabelle Lightwood

A sense of hopelessness had invaded his bones, as chill and as inescapable as the rain.

To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something ...

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Ithink that theworld should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, justcats andrain, rain and...

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Charles BukowskiBetting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

sleeping in the rain helps me forget things like I am going todie and you are going to die and the c...

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Charles BukowskiBetting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

The dead do not needaspirin orsorrow,I suppose.but they might needrain.not shoesbut a place towalk.n...

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Charles BukowskiThe Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems

What the mud had been doing with itself, or where it came from, who could say? But it seemed to coll...

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I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

For I prophecy that men will learn the use of their knees.For every thing that can be done in that p...

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Rain, rain, rain. Like a benediction from some vast inscrutable hand, long withheld, finally given. ...

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A slow hour passed, distracted by intermittent drops of moisture from above, as if the sky were cond...

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Colson WhiteheadThe Intuitionist

She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to ...

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It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for th...

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Trying to remember old dreams. A voice. Who came in.And meanwhile the rain, all day, all evening,qui...

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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when th...

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The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be he...

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The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.

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Dr. SeussThe Cat in the Hat

Only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses. Nobody, not even t...

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Vexed sailors curse the rain for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

I lay awake listening to the rain, and at first it was as pleasant to my ear and my mind as it had l...

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There are moments when I think it will never end, that it will last indefinitely. It's like the rain...

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I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in 'The ...

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When we love each other we are immortal and indestructible like the heartbeat and the rain and the w...

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Erich Maria RemarqueArch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, ...

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But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was ...

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Ernest HemingwayA Farewell to Arms

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I'm not afraid of the rain. Oh, o...

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Under the glass porte-cochère of a theatre Amory stood, watching the first great drops of rain splat...

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The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancien...

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Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain.

Time itself is a thing, so it seems to me, that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its...

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Gene WolfeThe Claw of the Conciliator

Her lips trembled, and so did his. It was never known which lips were the first to move towards the ...

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landsc...

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She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.

At five-thirty the rain began to fall in great, heavy drops which bounced off the pavement before th...

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Georges SimenonL'Enterrement de Monsieur Bouvet

Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I a...

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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty...

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It was pretty miserable wretches that minded at all whether they were wet or dry. He could not under...

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Shortly afterwards it started raining, very innocently at first, but the sky was packed tight with c...

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Halldór LaxnessIndependent People

Colors shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a ...

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Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body fallin...

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Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy ...

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The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of it...

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Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite na...

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The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wo...

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Some of my pleasantest hours were during the long rain-storms in the spring or fall, which confined ...

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Be still sad heart and cease repining Behind the clouds is the sun still shining Thy fate is the...

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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

How Beautiful is the rain!After the dust and heat,In the broad and fiery street,In the narrow lane,H...

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The ceaseless rain is falling fast,And yonder gilded vane,Immovable for three days past,Points to th...

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Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary ...

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Roy: "Looks like it's starting to rain"Riza: "But..It's not raining..."Roy: "Yes it is. This is the ...

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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rai...

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Boy, it began to rain like a bastard. In buckets, I swear to God. All the parents and mothers and ev...

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October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold a...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Can't you see that it's just raining?There ain't no need to go outside.

Can't you see that it's just raining?There ain't no need to go outside.

Can't you see that it's just raining?There ain't no need to go outside.

Can't you see that it's just raining?There ain't no need to go outside.

Can't you see that it's just raining?There ain't no need to go outside.

Can't you see that it's just raining?There ain't no need to go outside.

Can't you see that it's just raining?There ain't no need to go outside.

Can't you see that it's just raining?There ain't no need to go outside.

Snap your fingerstop the world - rain falls harder

It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night.

When it rains like that, dark in the afternoon, you feel like you've been taken into the past.

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Jackie KayWish I Was Here

Sitting on the porch alone, listening to them fixing supper, he felt again the indignation he had fe...

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How I hate the sight of an umbrella!

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Jane AustenNorthanger Abbey

He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of an heavy rain.

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Jane AustenSense and Sensibility

Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.

It was the day of the worms. That first almost-warm, after-the-rainy-night day in April, when you bo...

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