April C

“I think you and I share the same disillusionment, sprouted from long-buried hope.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“After all, what were you hoping for, really? What was this ever going to be, realistically? Isn’t this the best thing that could have possibly happened, for it to have ended now, before somebody really got hurt?”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“Settle somewhere fertile, plant a new you and watch you blossom. You can barely remember that old you now, the you who lived in that other place and was Sad. That old you wasn’t you; this is you. This is the you you want to be.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“The way your mother rolls her eyes at you, your sudden decision to stop eating red meat, the immediate unexplainable sadness you felt when you saw your father’s shirt draped over the back of a chair. You can write it all down, you can put it in your book of facts, but 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.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory