“They are ghosts of people I never knew, which the rain will wash away.”
“Streets of Paris, pray for me; beaches in the sun, pray for me; ghosts of the lemurs, intercede for me; plane-tree and laurel-rose, shade me; summer rain on quays of Toulon, wash me away.”
“The rain sounded like it was washing the whole world away.”
“The stupid things you say in the rain, that can't ever be washed away.”
“And on this dirty night there were appropriately dirty deeds that not even the rain could wash away.”
“Even the blood is quickly washing away in the driving rain, I wish my conscience could get clean so fast.”