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  1. Bill Bryson _ The Life and Times of the

    They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July.
    book-quotecloudsweatherwest

  2. P.D. James _ A Taste for Death

    It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
    book-quoteenglandweatherseasons

  3. Libba Bray _ A Great and Terrible Beauty

    The wind has shifted to the East. A storm isn't far off. I can smell the moisture in the air, a fetid, living thing. Isolated drops fall, licking at my hands, my face, my dress. The quests squawk in surprise, turn their palms up to the sky as if questioning it, and dash for cover.
    book-quoteweather

  4. John Banville _ The Sea

    Although it was autumn and not summer the dark-gold sunlight and the inky shadows, long and slender in the shape of felled cypresses, were the same, and there was the same sense of everything drenched and jewelled and the same ultramarine glitter on the sea. I felt inexplicably lightened; it was as if the evening, in all the drench and drip of its fallacious pathos, had temporarily taken over from me the burden of grieving.
    book-quoteweathermourningvivid

  5. Niccolò Machiavelli _ The Prince

    It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather.
    book-quoteweathermachiavellimachiavellian

  6. Dr. Seuss _ The Cat in the Hat

    The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.
    book-quoteweatherrain

  7. Mark Helprin _ Winter's Tale

    Then, just at the peak of complacency, when it was assumed that the climate of the world had changed forever, when the conductor of the philharmonic played Vivaldi's Four Seasons and left out an entire movement, and when to children of a young age stories of winter were told as if they were fairy tales, New York was hit by a cataclysmic freeze, and, once again, people huddled together to talk fearfully of the millennium.
    book-quoteweatherwinterfreeze

  8. Rebecca Goldstein _ 36 Arguments for the Existence

    Richard Nixon had made a fatal error in ignoring the politico-meteorological dimension when he announced the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia on April 30, 1970. The invasion of Laos, on the other hand, happened in February 1971, and the campuses were quiet. Who wants to stage a walkout in February?
    book-quotewarweatherprotest

  9. John Steinbeck _ East of Eden

    There's a passage in John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" that does a pretty good job describing California's rainfall patterns:The water came in a 30-year cycle. There would be five to six wet and wonderful years when there might be 19 to 25 inches of rain, and the land would shout with grass. Then would come six or seven pretty good years of 12 to 16 inches of rain. And then the dry years would come ...
    book-quoteweatherrainclimate

  10. John Steinbeck _ Travels with Charley: In

    I've lived in a good climate, and it bores the hell out of me.
    book-quoteweather

  11. Cormac McCarthy _ All the Pretty Horses

    By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray as far as the eye could see. They grouped in the road at the top of a rise and looked back. The storm front towered above them and the wind was cool on their sweating faces. They slumped bleary-eyed in their saddles and looked at one another. Shrouded in the black thunderheads the distant lightning glowed mutely like welding seen through foundry smoke. As if repairs were under way at some flawed place n the iron dark of the world.
    book-quoteweatherweststorm

  12. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Secret Life of Bees

    The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.
    book-quoteweatherheat
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