When It Rains, They Speak
It starts softly. A single drop on the windowpane. Then another. Soon, the world is wrapped in a gray hush, and the old voices rise with the scent of wet earth. raining quotes
So you step outside. No coat. Just your face turned upward — catching the last of it, letting the old quotes wash through you like a second language. When It Rains, They Speak It starts softly
But then the storm gathers. The gutters choke. And you remember Tom Waits growling through the downpour: "The rain falls hard on the humdrum town. It falls on everyone." No favorites. No umbrella for the heart. Soon, the world is wrapped in a gray
By dusk, the clouds crack open a little light. The dripping slows. And you recall something hopeful from Alice Hoffman: "Rain is grace. Rain is the sky descending to the earth. Without rain, there would be no life."
"Some people walk in the rain," mused a child once in a movie. "Others just get wet."