Fifty Words for Rain Quotes

“To love a child is the greatest terror there is. It’s a lifetime of worrying yourself sick over every move they make. It is a torture and an immense joy all at once.”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“We do things that we never thought we were capable of in order to protect what we love.”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“It seemed almost sacrilegious to spoil the silence that followed a perfect song.”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“Her favorite thing about God was that He was the one person she was allowed to ask questions. In fact, this privilege delighted her so much that she hardly even minded that nobody answered her.”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“Alice’s gray eyes were knowing. “Oh, my dear girl. You can’t shut yourself away from love forever. For you are love embodied and it will never stop trying to find you.”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“She would curl herself onto the couch and listen to him making paintings out of sound. And each piece was a different picture. In her mind’s eye, she could see a garden full of trees with white leaves and a fountain with blush-pink petals floating in the clear water—that was a concerto. The volta: scarlet and plum-colored ribbons winding around each other, battling for dominance. A requiem . . . a lone horse walking down a dimly lit cobbled road, looking for a rider that had died long ago. From these dead foreigners whose names she was slowly growing accustomed to, Nori was learning what it was to live a thousand lifetimes of joy and sorrow without ever leaving this house.”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“So far, in eight years of life, Nori had a collection of twelve ribbons, one for each time she’d been able to make her mother happy.”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“She shrugged. “I like rain.”
He laughed scornfully. “That’s ridiculous. Nobody likes rain. Nobody ever says, ‘I wish it weren’t so sunny today.’”
She lowered her eyes. “You can’t hear sunshine from the attic,” she said quietly. “And it’s always so quiet. In the summers, especially, with no lessons, and when Akiko-san doesn’t come, it’s . . . it’s empty. Like there’s nobody else but you in the whole world. But when it rained, I could always hear it on the roof, and then I remembered that I wasn’t, you know . . .”
Alone.
Akira blinked.”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“I feel this life is Sorrowful and unbearable Though I cannot flee away Since I am not a bird”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“It was horribly uncomfortable to feel time nudging her forward, tactlessly, in total disregard of whether she was prepared or not.”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“Mama wants to name him after her father, and my husband wants to name him after his. They want to saddle him from the cradle with the ghosts of dead men. As if his burden is not heavy enough. But I will name him myself. He is their miracle, their heir, but he is my son. And I will name him Akira.”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“Love can be weakened by time or forgotten for the sake of another. Love can disappear, without a cause or an explanation, like a thief crept in and stole it in the night.”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“Meekness was not weakness. And boldness was not strength.”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“She had brief snippets where she could see herself through his eyes. And there was so much beauty there it brought her to tears. All her life she’d felt like an elephant lumbering among delicate things. But in his honest gaze, she was no longer the elephant. She was the swan.”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“While my husband sleeps, while my children are upstairs in their nursery, I can be the selfish woman I was always meant to be for a few short moments in the day.”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“It seemed so deeply silly that she had ever cared about the new dresses her grandmother gave her from time to time. They were just objects—bolts of dyed fabric. They could never be enough to fill a life.”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“You shine so brightly it blinded me at first. Truly, you do. When I first saw you, I thought you were golden.” Will’s lips peeled back from his teeth. “And now?” She stood up. “And now I see that you are like enamel. You shine on the outside, but on the inside, there is nothing. I actually feel sorry for you. For I may be a half-breed and a bastard girl, but I am not so sad that I need to steal other people’s light to fill the hole in myself.”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“Nori ebbe un attimo di esitazione. Aveva solo qualche secondo. Non le veniva in mente niente da dire a quella donna. Erano una puttana e la sua signora, una principessa decaduta e una pezzente arricchita, una serva e una padrona. In quel momento però non sembravano più nulla di tutto ciò. Erano solo due donne a testa bassa contro il vento.”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“Her favorite thing about God was that He was the one person she was allowed to ask questions.”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“The ocean seemed never-ending. But somehow, somewhere, it did end. Perhaps it was the same with her grief.”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“Though it often eluded her, she liked sleep. It presented her with something that her waking moments perpetually denied her: freedom.”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“From that day forward, Agnes went everywhere with her. When Nori ate, Agnes went below the seat. When she was in her lessons, Agnes sat atop the piano. Her smile was stitched on—so even when Nori faltered and Akira winced in distaste, Agnes kept smiling.”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“She preferred, as she did with most things in life, to simply have faith. It was considerably less complicated.”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“It’s a lifetime of worrying yourself sick over every move they make. It is a torture and an immense joy all at once.”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“Tokyo is mine and I am hers. I am certain of this, as I am certain of most things.
-Akira”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“You can’t hear sunshine from the attic”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

“If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent.”
― Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain