There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
Source: James Axton, in The Names, ch. 12, 1982.
-- Don Delillo, (Nov 20 1936-____), US novelist; His works include White Noise, 1985, Libra, 1988 and Mao II, 1991; won PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 1992.