I was about 12 when I first encountered ‘The Moonstone’ – or a Classics Illustrated version of it – digging through an old trunk in my grandfather’s house on a rainy Bengali afternoon. – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it’s rainy and cloudy. It’s just genetic. – Kate Flannery
It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London. – Thomas de Quincey
