“corrode, v.I spent all this time building a relationship. Then one night I left the window open and it started to rust.”

“I’ve lived to bury my desires,And see my dreams corrode with rust;Now all that’s left are fruitless firesThat burn my empty heart to dust.”

“The small meannesses bred by the law of competition corrode men's character as rust spoils steel.”

“The days and nights come apart. I feel them corroding at the seams.”

“Because now there's time enough not to hurry, to light the lamp and open the window to the moon and take a moment to dream of a great and broken city, because when the day starts its business I'll have to stop, these are night-time tales that vanish in the sunlight like vampire dust”

“The unexpected thing, the miraculous thing, is when a car that's been shattered in a crash, that's been left in the rain to rust for years at a time, can be coaxed to growl to a start and slowly begin rolling down the hill.”