“The rain's innumerable hooves spatter on the streets and roofs.”

“When it don’t rain, the roof don’t leak; when it rains, I can’t fix it nohow.”

“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.”

“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”

“There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.”

“Wonderboy flashed in the sun. It caught the sphere it was biggest. A noise like a twenty-one gun salute cracked the sky. There was a straining, ripping sound and a few drops of rain spattered to the ground somebody then shouted it was raining cats and dogs. By the time of Roy got in from second he was wading in water ankle deep.”