“There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.”
“I decide I'm not dead because I can hear the sound of the rain hitting the roof of the car. I'm alive because I'm listening to the rain, and the rain becomes the hand of God strumming his fingers on the roof, deciding what to do.”
“The sound of the waves was more soothing than any other sound in the world, save maybe the rain.”
“It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake.”
“There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.”
“Rain fell on the roofs of the just and the unjust, the saints and the sinners, those who knew peace and those in torment, and tomorrow began at a dark hour.”