The Man Who Rained Quotes

“Sometimes someone else’s life can be the only thing that makes sense of your own.”
― Ali Shaw, The Man Who Rained

“The winds shook off in unison and yipped beneath the gleaming stars.
She gave him her lips. They kissed.
And she was in love with the thunder.”
― Ali Shaw, The Man Who Rained

“He said human beings were like a wind blowing. He said that sometimes we're loud and sometimes we're a whisper, sometimes we're warm and sometimes we're frighteningly cold. But however we blow, we blow onwards, and leave no sign of us behind.”
― Ali Shaw, The Man Who Rained

“Today’s gloom was just such an exquisite affair. He reclined in it as other men might in a hot bath. There was a darkness such as this inside of him too, which this one helped appease. It made him feel undone out of his skin, so that it was hard to tell where Daniel Fossiter ended and the world began. In this way he felt released, an uncorked genie floating for a few precious moments beyond his lamp.”
― Ali Shaw, The Man Who Rained

“the sky was something she’d so often dreamed of while the hoo-ha of the Sunday service carried on around her. There seemed to her infinitely more God to be found by staring up at the never-ending universe than by looking glumly around a building of bricks and stone.”
― Ali Shaw, The Man Who Rained

“One of the terrifying things about my life is that it belongs to me. It has never been lived before, nor will it ever be again. Every second is a brand-new possession.”
― Ali Shaw, The Man Who Rained