bojack horseman quotes

“...you can live your whole life like it’s a puzzle, put together from the pieces of different sets. your whole life is full of these pieces that don’t quite fit. but at some point, you start to think it’s you. you’re the piece that doesn’t quite fit. and you spend so long with that feeling that the feeling becomes your home. and it can be jarring when you discover one day that you suddenly don’t feel that way anymore. at first, you don’t trust it. but then, gradually, you do.”

“Do you ever look up at the stars and feel like they’re tiny holes in the sky, sucking out all the oxygen, and suddenly you can’t breathe because you’re thinking about how small you are and how meaningless it all is? ... it’s so cruel to let people love you. all you’re doing is promising you’ll one day break their hearts”

“bojack, when i was your age, i got sad. a lot. i didn’t come from such a great home, but one day, i started running, and that seemed to make sense, so then i just kept running. bojack, when you get sad, you run straight ahead and you keep running forward, no matter what. there are people in your life who are gonna try to hold you back, slow you down, but you don’t let them. don’t you stop running and don’t you ever look behind you. there’s nothing for you behind you. all that exists is what’s ahead.”

“loss is a collaborative art, between the people who leave us and those who remain. we dance with the shadows of their absence.”

“it’s important that you know i cared... you think i didn’t care because i put up walls. but i cared so much bojack. about you, about your mother. i wanted you to respect me. i wanted you to love me. i was so afraid that you would know that.”

“i know i’m not the perfect guy. i actually kind of hate myself a lot of the time. but when i’m with you, i don’t hate myself. i like being around you, and i don’t know if i ever told you that in so many words, so i’m telling you.”

“when i was a little girl, i thought that everything—all the abuse and neglect—it somehow made me special, and i decided that one day i would write something that would make little girls like me feel less alone, and if i can’t write that book...what was it all for?”

“sometimes life’s a bitch and you keep living”

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“i understand that feeling of needing to bottle up your guilt, not burden other people with it. you think you’re protecting them from your toxicity, you convince yourself that you’re being selfless, but… it comes out in other ways and it infects everything”

“i wanted to be better when you saw me again. and i thought i could be, somehow. but i’m not. and even if i did get better, the best i could ever be is still some other version of me.”

“it’s so easy for you to love me when everything’s good.”

“when i almost drowned, i decided i would never again be weaker than water. so i became a lifeguard. on my first day of training, my instructor told me that there are going to be times when you see someone in trouble. you’re going to want to rush in there and do whatever you can to save them. but you have to stop yourself. because there are some people you can’t save. because those people will thrash and struggle and try to take you down with them.”

“that’s the problem when you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags”