“The Great Dancer is my husband," Mira says, "rain washes off all the other colors.”

“Folks say rain washes away everything. I just believe it wipes the old shit off, but brings new in.Slade Carver - Thrill of the Hunt”

“The stupid things you say in the rain, that can't ever be washed away.”

“And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath dripping melancholy branches listening to the rain? Who is there in the rain’s million-needled blurring splash, listening to the grave music of the rain at night, September rain, September rain, so dark and soft? Who is there listening to steady level roaring rain all around, brooding and listening and waiting, in the rain-washed, rain-twinkled dark of night?”

“Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.”

“Mother used to say if you stood out in a rain like that; it would wash away your sins-”