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When all work is brought to a standstill, the candles are lit. Just as creation began with the word, Let there be light ! so does the celebration of creation begin with the kindling of lights. It is the woman who ushers in the joy and sets up the most exquisite symbol, light, to dominate the atmosphere of the home.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Nostalgia comes with the smell of rain.
- Donald Justice
Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.
- Ernest Hemingway
It came very fast and the sun went a dull yellow and then everything was gray and the sky was covered and the cloud came on down the mountain and suddenly we were in it and it was snow.
- Ernest Hemingway
A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair was black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek. I
- Ernest Hemingway
I pointed to the canvas where the rain was making the finest sound that we, who live much outside of houses, ever hear.
- Ernest Hemingway
It was hot, but the town had a cool, fresh, early-morning smell and it was pleasant sitting in the café.
- Ernest Hemingway
Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night.
- Aldous Huxley
Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.
- Dorothy Sayers
So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
While the rain continued it had seemed like the murmur of their voices, rising and swelling a little now and then with gusts of emotion.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The grass is full of ghost to-night.' 'The whole campus is alive with them.
- F Scott Fitzgerald