Perhaps because it seems so appropriate, I don't notice the rain. It falls in sheets, a blanket of silvery thread rushing to the hard almost-winter ground. Still, I stand without moving at the side of the coffin.

Michelle Zink
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There is a moment in the film, The Secret Garden , when Mary Lennox asks about her father's last words. The Countess of Marchmont, who has been watching the little girl, says, "Perhaps because it seems so appropriate, I don't notice the rain. It falls in sheets, a blanket of silvery thread rushing to the hard almost-winter ground. Still, I stand without moving at the side of the coffin."

Source: Prophecy Of The Sisters

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