Elizabeth Ryba

Program Manager at BC w/ compulsive bouts of writing. Would like to be reincarnated as Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Thai food enthusiast. Occasional witticisms.

[Elizabeth Ryba @catchrintheryba]

Online dating is funny because you’ll literally see someone whose reproductive organ was inserted in yours and you’ll be like “omg it’s too intimate to like them on a different dating app”

[ᴘᴀᴠʟᴏᴠ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏʀɢɪ @PAVGOD]

when u find a big stick https://t.co/m1uw4WAGoX

[Elizabeth Ryba @catchrintheryba]

Why is this Austen adaptation pretending the main thrust of #PersuasionNetflix is “long separated lovers have yearned for each other for eight years” and not “here is the story of two people who both made mistakes and how they persuaded themselves to give it another try”

[T Magazine @tmagazine]

The New York City novel has become its own literary category, one in which the city is more than mere setting. T assembled a panel of judges to debate the most influential of these works, from Toni Morrison to “Harriet the Spy." https://t.co/1ep5zKh7YO

[trash jones @jzux]

i think maybe one part of breakups people underestimate is how people in love develop their own sort of language and a rich shared world of characters and motifs. & then when the relationship ends there’s a special loneliness in realizing you’ll never speak that language again

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

due to personal reasons I will be getting in the hedgehog-mobile and speeding away

[the moon’s wife @bookishseawitch]

list of nice things: sleeping in on a rainy morning, the click of smooth stones against each other, someone cancelling something that you didn’t want to do, a dog staring expectantly up at you, mastering a new recipe, a walk at sunset, the relief of rest at the end of a long week

[Icona @iconawrites]

A dating app where you have to put your favourite authors in your bio. Brisk, efficient way of spotting major red flags.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

when the long winter of covid is over we deserve a Frog & Toad summer

[Elizabeth Ryba @catchrintheryba]

Me on dating apps #Bridgerton

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Rest assured you will never bore me by talking about your special interest. You’re an astronomer? I have questions. You draw maps of medieval London? I love you. This world is a banquet of knowledge and each of us has brought a dish to the table. Dig in.

[Pamela Colloff @pamelacolloff]

I once watched a colleague (who had just returned to work after maternity leave) highlight every email in her inbox and press delete. When she saw the look on my face, she shrugged and said, "If they really need to talk to me, they'll find me." I think of her nearly every day.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Joan Didion has died at age 87. Her sharp dispatches on California and tough, terse novels forged a distinct new voice in American writing. https://t.co/Y7Yiv18CS9

[Howl @HowlTweeter]

who sat in boxes breathing in the darkness under the bridge, and rose up to build harpsichords in their lofts, who coughed on the sixth floor of Harlem crowned with flame under the tubercular sky surrounded by orange crates of theology,

[Elizabeth Ryba @catchrintheryba]

Retweeting this because COME ON @YouNetflix @FlightAttendant @ColinWoodell @PennBadgley

[Elizabeth Ryba @catchrintheryba]

Starting to think these two may be long-lost relatives just based on their strategies of disguise @FlightAttendant @YouNetflix @PennBadgley @ColinWoodell #TheFlightAttendant

[Elizabeth Ryba @catchrintheryba]

The Queen is back and ready to break my heart with a single song @Adele ❤️😭

[Elizabeth Ryba @catchrintheryba]

@CBDebelius I legit had to ask my mom to help pay the monthly amount. I haven’t asked her for money since I started grad school!