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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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Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the ra...

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It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.

I'm gonna love you Till the heavens Stop the rain.I'm gonna Love you Till the stars Fall from the sk...

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I used to sit in front of my father's Jag, watching the raindrops run their kamikaze suicide mission...

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It's raining.the kind of rain that comes down so heavy it sounds like the shower's running, even whe...

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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power t...

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Then there was a fine noise of rushing water from the crown of an oak at his back, as if a spigot th...

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John CheeverThe Swimmer

If people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricaine

..if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was ahurricane.

Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

She felt a tightness in her chest and sent for Dr Simcox.'What's the trouble?''Look out there, that'...

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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really ...

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There’s a passage in John Steinbeck’s “East of Eden” that does a pretty good job describing Californ...

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In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk bene...

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Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

I know Sir John will go though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.

I don't see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn't need to be flattered ...

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I think that I shall never seeA poem lovely as a tree.A tree whose hungry mouth is pressedAgainst th...

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As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves y...

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Which is just another way of blaming, and perhaps the best way, because there is solace and a certai...

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Ken KeseySometimes a Great Notion

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing ...

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At any rate I'd better be getting out of the wood, for really its coming on very dark. Do you think ...

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

The wind has shifted to the East. A storm isn't far off. I can smell the moisture in the air, a feti...

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Libba BrayA Great and Terrible Beauty

Ah! Thou gifest me such hope and courage, and I haf nothing to gif back but a full heart and these e...

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They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or s...

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Lords of fire and earth and water,Lords of moon and wind and sky,Come now to the Old Man's daughter,...

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Madeleine L'EngleA Swiftly Tilting Planet

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

Last nightthe rainspoke to meslowly, saying, what joyto come fallingout of the brisk cloud, to be ha...

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Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. They don...

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When rain comes finally, washing away a low sky of muddy ocher, we who could not control the phenome...

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Maya AngelouI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling fro...

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Although it wasn't raining anymore, the air was still heavy with water, and rain gutters were ringin...

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There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she ca...

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A plop of rain hit me on the face, one of those early raindrops that turns up five minutes ahead of ...

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Along the pavement-colored hall doors stood half open on either side, all the way down; each one was...

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I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk ...

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At night I dream that you and I are two plantsthat grew together, roots entwined,and that you know t...

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When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburge...

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The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched but I can...

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Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under th...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Obviously, movies, you're often on location, out in the rain or the sun, in a real place where the t...

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A paradigm shift, where, in addition to physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on kn...

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The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It...

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The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a miz...

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Hello!" He said hello and then said, "What are you up to now?" "I'm still crazy. The rain feels good...

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I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself wa...

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Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationalit...

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

The book was not new. Dates were stamped on the front endpaper, in and out dates. A rent book. A len...

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I’ll affect you slowlyas if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants.It won’t rain...

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Richard BrautiganLoading Mercury With a Pitchfork

The rain to the wind said,You push and I'll pelt.'They so smote the garden bedThat the flowers actua...

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The rain is falling all around,It falls on field and tree,It rains on the umbrellas here,And on the ...

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Robert Louis StevensonA Child's Garden of Verses

RAINI opened my eyesAnd looked up at the rain.And it dripped in my headAnd flowed into my brain,And ...

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Shel SilversteinWhere the Sidewalk Ends

The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the...

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There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any se...

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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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