half the credit goes to my bestest of all friends, @maysthoughts <3 she made me ponder ordinary love

U2, Ordinary Love // Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory // La Dispute, Woman (In Mirror) // Everything Everywhere All At Once // @bicarusgf

You had every intention of being depressed forever, but as it turns out, there's work to be done, meals to eat, movies to see, errands to run. You meant to be in ruins permanently, your misery a monument, a gash across the cold hard earth, but honestly, who has the time for that?

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

A statue isn’t built from the ground up—it’s chiseled out of a block of marble—and I often wonder if we aren’t likewise shaped by the qualities we lack, outlined by the empty space where the marble used to be. I’ll be sitting on a train. I’ll be lying awake in bed. I’ll be watching a movie; I’ll be laughing. And then, all of a sudden, I’ll be struck by the paralyzing truth: it’s not what we do that makes us who we are. It’s what we don’t do that defines us.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg, “We Men of Science” from Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

...... why BoJack Horseman is the way it is makes so much damn sense now also reading this in 2020 didn't just punch me in the feels; it did so with a freakin brick

"You sure like your caesar salads."

"Yeah, well. Sometimes I just like to be reminded that if you get stabbed in the heart enough times, they'll name a salad after you."

Raphael Bob-Waksberge, "Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory."

Every day I think about how Raphael Bob-Waksberg, creator of Bojack Horseman, wrote a short story about a team of gay superheroes in a rock band that need to get drunk in order for their powers to activate and I wish I could convince him to pitch a TV adaptation because fandom spaces would eat it up so hard

We’ll make up constellations out of the freckles on our thighs, rich mythologies of long-dead ancient civilizations.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory.

"Being president doesn’t change you, not really; it just brings out more of the you that you already are. // And I think about how loving someone is kind of like being president, in that it doesn’t change you, not really. But it brings out more of the you that you already are."

- Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

Raphael Bob-Waksberg, from Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory

My son gave this to me for Christmas. He said it’s his favorite book of short stories. I’ve got a whole day of flying to enjoy it ❤️.

the truth is no one can ever really understand the tangle of experiences and passions that makes you who you are. It's a secret collection, a private language, a pebble in your pocket that you play with when you're anxious, hard as geometry, smooth as soap.

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

i love this book with every fiber of my being 

excerpt: you can know somebody for sixty years and yet still not really know that person at all 

And you’ll smile at this man and wonder if he too, like all those who came before him, will someday be a bittersweet memory, will someday be felled by the same foolish blunder of knowing you a little too well and yet also somehow not enough.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg, “The Serial Monogamist’s Guide to Important New York City Landmarks” from Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

Sunday, 27/11/2023

a bookstore just radiates comfort and warmth.

reached my study milestone today, went out to get a hearty meal (and my fav muffins!). browsing through the bookshelf & decided to pickup this book; the ‘creator of Bojack Horseman’ intrigued me — overall a fulfilling day!

"Everyone who ever loves me one day outgrows me."

- Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory, Raphael Bob-Waksberg

(p. 83)

January really flew by 🫣

Here’s everything that I read this month ✌🏻