Manchester Quote by Mhairi McFarlane

“Rain came down in sheets. It had been a miserable spring. Already he despaired of ever again walking under an unclouded sky.”

— Sherry Thomas

“He didn't understand how sadness came so easily to people. For him it was like a pile of rocks that had to be moved…

— Nell Freudenberger

“British rain was rarely that simple. For days on end, instead of falling, it simply hung around in the air like a wife waiting…

— Ruth Downie

“Everywhere, it seemed, in the tress and water and sky, a great worldwide sadness came pressing down on me, a crushing sorrow, sorrow like…

— Tim O'Brien

“I began to cry but maintained my shouting through it, like a wind through sheets of rain.”

— Olivia Sudjic

“It's raining in my heart, like it's raining in the city. What is this sadness that pierces my heart?”

— sonya sones

“I wasn't sure if it was the sound of tears I heard, or the rain outside.”

— Mario Saincic

“Somehow this wasn't the same as melancholy. It was something else, about how melancholy and nostalgia weren't relevant in the slightest. Things just happened.…

— Ali Smith

“In the past few months, life had lost its sweetness and he’d lost his way. But no longer. Death was once again the enemy,…

— Sharon Kay Penman

“He wanted to cry out, longed to scream, to howl his misery to the heavens. But he couldn’t even manage a whimper. Tears streamed…

— John Heffernan

“How good the rain would feel, like crying all over her body.”

— Celeste Ng

“Already the rain had become an element of life like the air Mark breathed, and when it stopped, he missed it somehow, and found…

— Margaret Craven