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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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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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