“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.”

Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001) British writer

“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.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

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

Katherine Heigl (1978) American actress and film producer

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

Raheel Farooq Pakistani writer

“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”

Norah Jones (1979) American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist

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

Ernest Hemingway book Green Hills of Africa

“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.”

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor

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

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

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

Terry Brooks (1944) American writer