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• “Don't be offended, but you seem to be one of those people who just attract accidents like a magnet. So... try not to fall into the ocean or get run over or anything, all right?” He smiled crookedly. The helplessness had faded as he spoke. I glared at him. “I'll see what I can do,” I snapped as I jumped out into the rain. I slammed the door behind me with excessive force. He was still smiling as he drove away.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Running, Ocean, Fall

  "Twilight". Book by Stephenie Meyer, October 5, 2005.

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• The lasting legacy of the Cooter Smash is that I'm the first to know when it's going to rain. That's right. I both sing and predict the weather with my hoo hoo.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Weather, Legacy, Firsts

  Kristin Chenoweth (2009). “A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let herself think about because that's when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it's always raining a slow endless drizzle.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Bird, Mind

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Fragile Things”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• ...and I suddenly feel that Henry is there, incredible need for Henry to be there and to put his hand on me even while it seems to me that Henry is the rain and I am alone and wanting him - Clare

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Hands, Needs, Incredibles

  Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.57, Zola Books

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• He leaned over to kiss the top of my head, and then groaned. I looked at him, puzzled. "You smell so good in the rain," he explained. "In a good way, or in a bad way?" I asked cautiously. He sighed. "Both, always both.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Kissing, Smell, Way

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• I was always embarresed by the words 'sacred,' 'glorious,' and 'sacrifice' and the expression 'in vain.' We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Business, Sacrifice, Expression

  "A Farewell to Arms". Book by Ernest Hemingway., 1929.

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• He can't remeber who he is or where he lives." "Well that's convenient." "Not when it rains.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Wells, Convenient

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• Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.

  Haruki Murakami

  Earthquakes, Mind, Age

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Dance Dance Dance”, p.68, Random House

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• You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies... so we can dance.

  Jim Carroll

  Growing Up, Sorry, Army

  Jim Carroll (1993). “Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems of Jim Carroll”, Penguin Group USA

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• Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Fall, Littles, Sunny

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Because you are never here but always there, I forget not you but what you look like You drift down the street in the rain, your face dissolving, changing shape, the colours running together My walls absorb you, breathe you forth again, you resume yourself, I do not recognize you You rest on the bed watching me watching you, we will never know each other any better than we do now

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Wall, Together

  Margaret Atwood (1973). “Power politics”, Harper & Row, 1973

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• The rain washed away my pitcher's mound... I'm a pitcher without a mound... I'm a lost soul... I'm like a politician out of office." "Or a sailor without an ocean..." "Or a boy without a girl.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Girl, Ocean, Boys

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• Then I think of the dark, and the lights, and the roaring, and Juliet, and before I can think of anything else, I fight the final few steps to the door and step out into the cold, where the rain is still coming down like shards of moonlight, or like steel.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dark, Fighting, Thinking

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• So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided me with vehemence. You are passionate: I expected a scene of some kind. I was prepared for the hot rain of tears; only I wanted them to be shed on my breast: now a senseless floor has received them, or your drenched handkerchief. But I err: you have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose, then, that your heart has been weeping blood?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Eye, Heart, Grieving

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Jane Eyre: Easyread Edition”, p.118, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Bird boy kept us out there in the freezing rain while he yammered about the Red One this and Red One that. Darius got Zoey in here despite his help".

  P. C. Cast

  Boys, Bird, Red

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Hunted: A House of Night Novel”, p.154, Macmillan

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• She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’…but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Love, Romantic, Simple

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.489, Penguin

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• No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.

  Anne Bronte

  Taken, Common Sense, Mind

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.698, Penguin

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• Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Odds, Illumination

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.204, Anchor

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• My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. One such melting occurs in summer rain, at midnight, during the vine-green breathing time right before sleep. You have to ask the right question, throw the right rope bridge, to get there-and then bolt across the chasm between you, before your bridge collapses.

  Karen Russell

  Summer, Sleep, Breathing

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• I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis of Evil"? Come on. "A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain" is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even.

  John Waters

  Powerful, Hate, Ocean

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.34, Macmillan

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• House-training, I must tell you, is a formality that can elude young dachshunds for some time; this is particularly true in climates that affront their sensibilities with outrageous meteorological insults. Rain, for example, or a startling gust of wind.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Wind, House, Dachshunds

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• The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers

  W. H. Auden

  Flower, Fall, Sky

  'The Witnesses' (1935) l. 67

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• You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants that wait for the rain. You said they'd wait for years, if they had to; that they'd almost kill themselves before they grew again. But as soon as those first drops of water fall, those plants begin to stretch and spread their roots. They travel up through the soil and sand to reach the surface. There's a chance for them again.

  Lucy Christopher

  Lying, Fall, Years

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.255, Scholastic Inc.

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• One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.

  Charles Dickens

  Dust, Tears, Earth

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• My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dream, Animal, Clouds

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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