Ryan Corbitt

“Something about a girl being strangled to death on her 13th birthday seems so on brand for Chucky.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Damned

“Bunny, for all his appearance of amiable, callous stability, was actually a wildly erratic character. There were any number of reasons for this, but primary among them was his complete inability to think about anything before he did it. He sailed through the world guided only by the dim lights of impulse and habit, confident that his course would throw up no obstacles so large that they could not be plowed over with sheer force of momentum.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“He was quiet for a moment. 'We don't run much to looks in my family, you know, all knuckles and cheekbones and beaky noses,' he said. 'Maybe that's why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“We had not spoken about the incident in my room several nights before and, in the drowsy silence of the car, I felt the need to make things plain.
'You know, Francis,' I said.
'What?'
It seemed the best thing was just to come right out and say it.
'You know,' I said, 'I'm really not attracted to you. I mean, not that-'
'Isn't that interesting,' he said coolly. 'I'm really not attracted to you, either.'
'But-'
'You were there.'
We drove the rest of the way to school in a not very comfortable silence.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History