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“A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though, as if a shower of sand were being sprinkled from a window overhead; then the fall spread, took on an order, a rhythm,...” Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
“For raging wind blows up incessant showers, and when the rage allays, the rain begins. ” William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3
“Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“I suppose a cry does us all good at times, clears the air as other rain does.” Bram Stoker, Dracula
“The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“The rain continued, and grew colder, which I did not mind, but a dim snowy look in the drooping clouds made me hesitate about venturing far from land.” John Muir, Stickeen
“A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house all that cold, cold, wet day.” Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat
“When it's raining like this . . . it feels as if we're the only ones in the world.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.” John Muir, The Mountains of California
“Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.” John Green, Paper Towns
“It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour—but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands—and who knows what to do with it?” Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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