Rain Quotes - Page 19

• I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.

  Anne Lamott

  Summer, Car, Want

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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• Patch stood over me, and a drop of rain slid from his hair, landing like ice on my collarbone. I felt it slide along my skin, disappearing beneath the neckline of my shirt. His eyes followed the raindrop, and I began to quiver on the inside.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Hair, Ice

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away. The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee, Expend their bloom in vain. Come over the hills and far with me, And be my love in the rain.

  Robert Frost

  Flower, Clouds, Storm

  Robert Frost, Thomas Fasano (2008). “Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost”, p.40, Coyote Canyon Press

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• You know, bud, I don’t know you from Adam, but that’s my baby sister you’re hanging on to. So I’m thinking the wisest course of action for you is to let her go and introduce yourself. Pronto. (Rain)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Thinking, Bud

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.557, Macmillan

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• Storm, Rain, and Sunshine, huh? (Talon) My mother’s doing. I’m just glad she stopped at three. I was told the next one would have been named Cloudy Day. (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Sunshine, Storm

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.129, Macmillan

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• But nowadays everybody's a comedian, even the weather girls and continuity announcers. We laugh at everything. Not intelligently anymore, not with sudden shock, astonishment, or revelation, just relentlessly and meaninglessly. No more rain showers in the desert, just mud and drizzle everywhere, occasionally illuminated by the flash of paparazzi.

  Douglas Adams

  Girl, Weather, Laughing

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

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• Right now, it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  World, Imagine, Right Now

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.465, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain.

  Haruki Murakami

  Kids, Window, Standing

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and helping you kill the bourbon. Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Loneliness, Kids, Night

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Nice, Fall, Smell

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2006). “The Secret Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.136, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know. -Songs of Sapphique

  Catherine Fisher

  Song, Wall, Lying

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• All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter rain, told us how the basins of her collarbones collected water.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Winter, Water, Ribs

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• I was suddenly overwhelmed by what an incredible person this boy was, standing in front of me, and by the fact that he was mine and I was his. "Right now," Sam said - and I saw that he held the invoice for today's studio time in his hand, folded into a bird with sun-washed wings - "it's hard to imagine that it is raining anewhere in the world." "From Linger, page 258

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Boys, Hands, Wings

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.465, Scholastic Inc.

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• He was silent for a moment, staring out the window into the rain; I imagined he was contemplating the fact that his family's presence was turning the locals into giant dogs.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Dog, Giants, Facts

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self had come into being. There was no shame in awe; there was exaltation. (“Cafe Endless: Spring Rain”)

  Nancy Holder

  Spring, Self, Exaltation

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• When you go, if you go, And I should want to die, there's nothing I'd be saved by more than the time you fell asleep in my arms in a trust so gentle I let the darkening room drink up the evening, till rest, or the new rain lightly roused you awake. I asked if you heard the rain in your dream and half dreaming still you only said, I love you.

  Edwin Morgan

  Dream, Love You, Half

  Edwin Morgan (1990). “Collected poems”, Carcanet Press

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• therefore i live for today- certain of finding at sunrise guidance and strength for the way. power for each moment of weakness, hope for each moment of pain, comfort for every sorrow, sunshine and joy after rain!

  Billy Graham

  Pain, Sunshine, Joy

  Billy Graham (2014). “Hope for Each Day Signature Edition: Words of Wisdom and Faith”, p.3, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky

  Jandy Nelson

  Flower, Color, Years

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.83, Penguin

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• I’m erased. I’m gone. I’m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl…. And… I see. I hear. But not with eyes and ears. I’m not outside my world anymore, and I’m not really inside it either. The thing is, there’s no difference between me and the universe. The boundary is gone. I am it and it is me. I am a stone, a cactus thorn. I am rain. I like that most of all, being rain.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Life, Eye, Differences

  Jerry Spinelli (2011). “Stargirl”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• The rain battered the cottage. Valkyrie risked a look up at Skulduggery. “What is it?” she whispered. “It’s a box,” he whispered back. “What kind of box?” “A wooden one.” She gave him a look.

  Derek Landy

  Looks, Cottages, Kind

  Derek Landy (2011). “Death Bringer (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 6)”, p.48, HarperCollins UK

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• When you take your step your dream comes true,you see the sky with fluffy clouds you take your breath-the flowers bloom you belth your way to the top of the mountain you see the sky it leaves you nothing but bumps the rain comes down the lighting hits you are the thunder and Im your lighting just deal with everything Naturally.

  Selena Gomez

  Dream, Flower, Clouds

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• ...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that anyone's violence or agony seemed an oasis, and the brief companionship seemed like a rain in the desert that was numbered and counted and remembered long after it was gone.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Reality, Oasis, Agony

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• Now its raining its pouring the old man is snoring now I lay me down to sleep I hear the sirens in the street all my dreams are made of chrome I have no way to get back home I’d rather die before I wake like Marilyn Monroe and throw my dreams out in the street and the rain make ‘em grow

  Tom Waits

  Dream, Home, Sleep

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• As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light where there's dark, seeing possibility in dead ends, tasting victory as others spit out failure, questioning where others accept. Just a little less jaded, a little less cynical.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Fall, Dark, Light

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• Tell me, is the rose naked or is that her only dress? Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots? Who hears the regrets of the thieving automobile? Is there anything in the world sadder than a train standing in the rain?

  Pablo Neruda

  Regret, Roots, Rose

  Pablo Neruda (1991). “The book of questions”, Copper Canyon Pr

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