Brains are just confusing...

So I’m going to post again about New Moon. I really liked the description on page 126, “The cold rain dripped through my hair and then trickled across my cheeks like freshwater tears. It helped to clear my head. I blinked the water from my eyes, staring blankly across the road.” This quote just refreshed me. The way the “cold” rain dripped through her hair, then “trickled” down her cheeks like the pain being washed away, the relief that you are omitting the anger, the fear, the sadness, safely. Tears are safe, tears are perfect. Another quote popped out at me, on page 127, “Who would want to ride a motorcycle here? It would be like taking a sixty mile per hour bath.” I just thought it was humorous and light unlike the rest of the book. Wow really, it made me smile. I stopped and thought about if literally, haha it sounded really fun. Oh where my imagination takes me… Also, on page 129, a quote kind of had me stumped and I reread it a few times. “Inspiration hit like a bolt of lightning-not unreasonable, considering the storm.” Ok, so first I thought the storm could be a potential problem or conflict, then I thought the so the lightning bolt is reasonable, which the bolt is inspiration. Lightning bolts are powerful, bright, and damaging positively (electricity) and negatively (property, deaths). So in conclusion I concluded that the inspiration opportunity came up quickly and as powerful as a lightning bolt when it was needed the most, during a problem. Why did it take so long to break that down? I have no idea.