You see, my love. As you've always said, after the rain-"…

“Brother," he wept, "my heart is being cut in two. I cannot bear it." "Tscha!" said the Tsar of Birds. "Life is like that.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Nikolai did not want to be rescued from that special house and restored to the brilliancy of the Romanov throne, of this I am…

— Robert Alexander

“It amazes me still to this day how quickly the empire fell to pieces. One day the people are kissing the ground upon which…

— Robert Alexander

“This is what fun is like," said Rain, almost to herself.”

— Gregory Maguire

“Hush, child don't ask personal questions," said the Lion. "That's the only kind I have," said Rain.”

— Gregory Maguire

“I should have known,” he whispered. “I am the rain.” And yet he looked dully down the mountains of his body where the hills…

— John Steinbeck

“Someone said the rain would mean nothing if thirst had never been named.”

— Adam Clay

Mama always said that if it can't rain on you, you're indoors.

— Bum Phillips

You know, no matter what happens in life, I've always said that it cannot rain forever, the sun will shine. And yet the sun…

— Andre Onana

“She said also that while the rain fell by the will of God evil chose its own hour and that those whom it sought…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Well, I learned to cook. At my age," she told him. "What's next? Art therapy? Anyway, I've had quite a time of it this…

— Gregory Maguire

Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...

— Gregory Maguire

“All power has its derivation from God; the Russian Czar, however, was granted a special significance distinguishing him from the rest of the world's…

— Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov

“There, weeping, a tsarevna lies locked in a cell. And Master Grey Wolf serves her very well. There, in her mortar, sweeping beneath the…

— Catherynne M. Valente

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

— Mikhail Bakunin