“She was the breeze on a summer's day, the first drops of rain when the earth was parched, light from the evening star.”
“Encouragement from any source is like a drop of rain upon a parched desert. Thanks to all the many others who rained on me when I needed it, and even when I foolishly thought I didn't.(acknowledgements in The P.U.R.E.)”
“From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day; and with the setting sun dropped from the zenith like a falling star.”
“Relief washed over me like that first air-conditioned breeze on a hot summer day.”
“This parched evening seasons the night with remembrances of rain.”
“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.”