Amethyst Quote by Gary D. Schmidt

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with…

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

Sounds of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth…

— Charles Dickens

The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after a long…

— Rick Yancey

All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean…

— Kiran Desai

“The multicolored leaves were softly glowing against the black sky, creating an untimely nocturnal rainbow which scattered its spectral tints everywhere and dyed the…

— Thomas Ligotti

Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the…

— Peter Mayle

Colours change: in the morning light, red shines out bright and clear and the blues merge into their surroundings, melting into the greens; but…

— Rosemary Verey

“The last rain had come at the beginning of April and now, at the first of June, all but the hardiest mosquitoes had left…

— Jane Hamilton

“Before the blue of night meets the pink of sunrise, there is a transition of lavender. It's a gradient of color that stretches its…

— Jarod Kintz

The rains are rhythmic, coming religiously in the afternoons (after lunch has been eaten but before tea, so that the nights are washed clean-black…

— Alexandra Fuller

“At the edge of heaven, tatters of autumn Cloud. After ten thousand miles of clear Lovely morning, the west wind arrives. Here, Long rains…

— Tu Fu