I always loved that ruin, loved that the city had chosen to light it up like a haunted house, rather than demolish it or replace it with shiny new condos.
It's the vileness that ruins love".
Photos from the couple's wedding magnified the horror of their ruined love.
His songs, with their hoarse vocals and stubborn chords, pick over ruined love affairs.
"The Accident," Byrne's eerie allegory of ruined love on the new CD, is a prime example of the fixation.
"Porn is great and it's free but it ruins love for us all," said one 15-year-old boy ruefully.
Red Book offers two or three above-par efforts - 'Sleep' is a sweet duet between Sharleen Spiteri and Paul Buchanan of the Blue Nile, 'What About Us' a pleasantly digital analysis of ruined love.
Streisand moved through the song slowly, ruminating on the longing in the lyrics with notes that captured exasperation, pity, obsession and, probably, more understanding of a ruined love than any singer who has ever sung that song before.
To be honest, Hugh Grant probably ruined love for all of us with his sad basset hound eyes longing after Julia Roberts (who essentially plays herself) in the 1999 classic.
We're not the first ones to tackle this issue -- pieces about how smartphones are ruining love, porn is ruining erections and online dating is ruining romance abound on the internet.
