Ryan Corbitt

“And another important fact was this-I was not seeking all of her. Her entire being wouldn't fit, perhaps, in the small box I possessed now. I was no longer a seventeen-year-old boy. Back then, I had all the time in the world. But not now. The time I have now, and the ways I can use it, have become so limited. What I sought now was the gentle warmth that lay inside, beneath her defensive wall. And the rhythmic beat of the heart that lay pulsing beneath.

At this point was I asking for too little? Or too much?”
― Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls

“Indeed. Loneliness is extremely hard. Whether you're alive or dead, the wasting away, the pain is exactly the same. But even so I still have the strong, vivid memories of having loved someone with all my heart. A feeling that seeped into the palms of my hands and still remains. Whether you have that warmth or not makes all the difference in the way your soul remains after death.”
― Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls

“You are your own doctor, sympathetic but ultimately disconnected.”
― Patrick deWitt, Ablutions

“The Stomach Tuck is surgical intervention to remove stomach fat at the same time making a tuck in the abdominal wall thus
creating a flesh corset, which is, however, subject to break and spurt your horible old guts across the floor... the slim and shapely
F.C models are, of course, the most dangerous In fact, some extreme models are known as O.N.S.- One Night Stands-in the industry.

Doctor "Doodles" Rindfest states bluntly: "Bed is the most dangerous place for an F.C. man. The FC. theme song is "Believe Me If All These Endearing Young Charms" An F.C partner is indeed subjecet to 'fleet from vour arms like fairy gifts fading away.”
― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text