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

“It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake.”

“I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets…. you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.”

“Isn't it better to be alone than pretend you're someone else? Be you. Find you. Be happy with that.”

“Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.”

“I want to wake up with the rain
Falling on a tin roof
While I'm safe there in your arms
So all I ask is for you
To come away with me in the night
Come away with me”

“[T]he rain was making the finest sound that we, who live much outside of houses, ever hear.”

“Come clean with a child heart
Laugh as peaches in the summer wind
Let rain on a house roof be a song
Let the writing on your face
be a smell of apple orchards on late June.”

“I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.”

“Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.”