We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare…

The circus tent was flowing pale in the rain like a fleshy flower lit from within. It seemed to bloom in the downpour. Drops…

— Francesca Lia Block

“slipped through it, and closed it behind her. The sudden drenching from the rain made the vertigo intensify, staggering her. She stopped, recovering her…

— Aaron Fletcher

“The rain came before I'd gone a block. A few drops at first, and then a downpour. I didn't turn back. I tipped my…

— Makiia Lucier

The rain is a necessary prelude to beautiful weather. So even if your heart is in downpour right now it only means it will…

— Bisco Hatori

“You were my tempest, my thunder cloud, my tree in the downpour. I loved all of those things, and I loved you. But now…you’re…

— Penelope Douglas

“The closer you are to the end of your temporal trials, the louder the voice of critics. Close your ears to the heavy downpours…

— Israelmore Ayivor

One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour. A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

“She wanted him to be the sunshine to her clouds. She couldn't handle the idea that he had weather patterns of his own, and…

— Lucinda Rosenfeld

I hate to rain on the parade of this so-called new champion here, but Junior, put on your slicker because there's gonna be a…

— Chris Jericho

“Gray. The overcast skies had the colour of deadened stones, and seemed closer than usually, as though they were phlegmatically observing my every movement…

— Simona Panova

“For the rest of my life, Zanzibar will be the Swahili word for rain. The rain would drizzle, spit, mist, downpour, shower, torrent, gust,…

— Kristine K. Stevens

“Beside him, at that very moment of existence, at the heart of a torrential downpour, he was exquisitely real, and she, too, seemed content…

— Anna Godbersen

Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour.…

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

“When the rain had hit the beach and Zane had turned to retreat to their room, Ty grabbed him instead and started a waltz…

— Abigail Roux

“Without any wind blowing, the sheer weight of a raindrop, shining in parasitic luxury on a cordate leaf, caused its tip to dip, and…

— Vladimir Nabokov