Reading in the Rain...

What's better than reading a book when it's raining outside? That's right, pretty much nothing!

Alabama has been having it's fair share of rain these days. In fact, it's been raining/icing/snowing so much that I still haven't made it to the store for my coveted rain boots!! Much of the rest of the country is experiencing the same thing. I haven't blogged much lately, so I thought I'd encourage your book snobbiness by posting some great quotes about reading, rain, and reading in the rain.

I can't wait for the weekend to start so I can continue on my journey with Jane Eyre. She just found out last night that she's off to Lowood and I especially loved when she blessed out Mrs. Reed around 9:00 pm. I'm just at the beginning of this one, but I hope it rains cats and dogs all weekend so I can stay in and enjoy hanging out with Jane.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
~B. F. Skinner

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
~James Dickey

Only your friends steal your books.
~Voltaire

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
~William Styron

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.
~Author Unknown

I find television to be very educating. Every time someone turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.
~Groucho Marx

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
~Billie Holiday

April showers bring May flowers,
I have seen rain before,
But if Sunday mornin' lets that sun in,
What are we waiting for?
'Cause love leaves an open door.
~Sugarland


















From Jane Eyre...
"I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wraps my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one."