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