Rain Quotes - Page 27

• The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Whole Life, Bothered, Ifs

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• Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don’t want to break them. That’s how you drive in the rain.

  Garth Stein

  Want, Eggshells, Break

  Garth Stein (2009). “The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• George turned to her. His blue eyes widened. His lovely face took on a forlorn, deeply troubled expression. He leaned forwar, and, in a theatrical whisper, said, 'My past is tragic. I wouldn't want to burden you with it. It's a pain I must suffer alone. In the rain. In silence.

  Ilona Andrews

  Pain, Eye, Past

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• I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.

  Aime Cesaire

  Horse, Children, Communication

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• Gradually, the night stumbled as if stunned and wandering aimlessly into an overcast day -- limped through the wilderland of transition as though there were no knowing where the waste of darkness ended and the ashes of light began. The low clouds seemed full of grief -- tense and uneasy with accumulated woe -- and yet affectless, unable to rain, as if the air clenched itself too hard for tears. And through the dawn, Atiaran and Covenant moved heavily, unevenly, like pieces of a broken lament.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Grief, Night, Clouds

  Stephen R. Donaldson (2012). “Lord Foul's Bane”, p.97, Del Rey

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• Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.

  Karen Maitland

  Blow, Wind, World

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• Rain amplifies your mistakes, and water on the track can make your car handle unpredictably. When something unpredictable happens you have to react to it; if you’re reacting at speed, you’re reacting too late. And so you should be afraid.

  Garth Stein

  Mistake, Track, Water

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• I would I were alive again To kiss the fingers of the rain, To drink into my eyes the shine Of every slanting silver line, To catch the freshened, fragrant breeze From drenched and dripping apple-trees. For soon the shower will be done, And then the broad face of the sun Will laugh above the rain-soaked earth Until the world with answering mirth Shakes joyously, and each round drop Rolls twinkling, from its grass-blade top.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Eye, Kissing, Apples

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “Early Poems”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• listen to me as one listens to the rain, the years go by, the moments return, do you hear the footsteps in the next room? not here, not there: you hear them in another time that is now, listen to the footsteps of time, inventor of places with no weight, nowhere, listen to the rain running over the terrace, the night is now more night in the grove, lightning has nestled among the leaves, a restless garden adrift-go in, your shadow covers this page.

  Octavio Paz

  Running, Night, Garden

  Octavio Paz, “As One Listens To The Rain”

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• Through wind, and tempest, storm, and rain; The calm shall be buried inside of me; A warm stone, heavy and dry; The root, the source, a weapon against pain

  Lauren Oliver

  Pain, Wind, Roots

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.434, Hachette UK

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• I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sitting-room, but I don’t know why they’d decided to confine its purpose just to sitting. Obviously, sitting was one of the things you could do in a room this size; but you could also stage operas, hold cycling races, and have an absolutely cracking game of frisbee, all at the same time, without having to move any of the furniture. It could rain in a room this big.

  Hugh Laurie

  Moving, Cycling, Race

  Hugh Laurie (1998). “The Gun Seller”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again

  Emily Bronte

  Wall, Autumn, Garden

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• The realization that I’d have nothing to take home had finally sunk in. My knees buckled and I slid down the tree trunk to its roots. It was too much. I was too sick and weak and tired, oh, so tired. Let them call the Peacekeepers and take us to the community home, I thought. Or better yet, let me die right here in the rain.

  Suzanne Collins

  Tired, Home, Roots

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.43, Scholastic Inc.

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• And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath dripping melancholy branches listening to the rain? Who is there in the rain’s million-needled blurring splash, listening to the grave music of the rain at night, September rain, September rain, so dark and soft? Who is there listening to steady level roaring rain all around, brooding and listening and waiting, in the rain-washed, rain-twinkled dark of night?

  Jack Kerouac

  Dark, Night, Waiting

  Jack Kerouac (1959). “The Town and the City”

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• As those who have seen Jurassic Park will know, this means a tiny disturbance in one place, can cause a major change in another. A butterfly flapping its wings can cause rain in Central Park, New York. The trouble is, it is not repeatable. The next time the butterfly flaps its wings, a host of other things will be different, which will also influence the weather. That is why weather forecasts are so unreliable.

  Stephen Hawking

  New York, Butterfly, Mean

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• If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live

  Pablo Neruda

  Fall, Heart, Sleep

  Pablo Neruda, “The Dead Woman”

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• Can I take a rain check? Weekends are busy for me." He shrugged, his perma smile back in all its dimpled glory. "You'd probably figure out a way to nearly get killed, anyway.

  Kiersten White

  Weekend, Way, Busy

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• The rainbow in place of the unicorn? Why didn't God just restore the unicorn? We animals would have been happier with that, instead of a big hint in the sky about God's magnanimity every time it stopped raining.

  Julian Barnes

  Animal, Sky, Hints

  Julian Barnes (2010). “A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters”, p.28, Random House

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• Have you ever been in love, Hadrian?” “I’m not sure. How do you tell?” “Love? Why, it’s like coming home.” Hadrian considered the comment. “What are you thinking?” Bulard asked. Hadrian shook his head. “Nothing.” “Yes, you were. What? You can tell me. I’m an excellent repository for secrets. I’ll likely forget, but if I don’t, well, I’m an old man in a remote jungle. I’m sure to die before I can repeat anything.” Hadrian smiled, then shrugged. “I was just thinking about the rain.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Home, Men, Thinking

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• I point at a window to my left, and it explodes. Particles of glass rain over us. ‘You’ll have to do better than that,' I say.

  Veronica Roth

  Glasses, Window, Particles

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• I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Giving, Sun, Checks

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.68, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip, barefoot, giggling. It’s not so terrible she tells me, not like you think, all darkness and silence. There are windchimes and the smell of lemons, some days it rains, but more often the air is dry and sweet. I sit beneath the staircase built from hair and bone and listen to the voices of the living. I like it, she says, shaking the dust from her hair, especially when they fight, and when they sing.

  Dorianne Laux

  Girl, Sweet, Fighting

  Dorianne Laux (2000). “Smoke: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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• I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.

  Katherine Applegate

  Beautiful, Justice, Forests

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• Taking a deep breath that smelled of rain, she was poised to move when a hand clasped her elbow. Memories of another hand grabbing her sent panic shooting through her veins. She swung around. "Whoa. You okay?" Lucas lightened his clasp around her arm. Kylie caught her breath and stared up at the werewolf's blue eyes. "Yeah. You just...surprised me. You need to whistle when you come up on me.

  C.C. Hunter

  Memories, Moving, Eye

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• I rode all day. I cried all night. The moon didn’t glow. The sun didn’t rise. A comet blazed Between my eyes. West and South, Wind and rain. Every way is Just the same. Pray give me a box To hide inside. Pray give me a spade To dig my own grave.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Eye, Moon, Night

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