• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
• Writing Down The Bones by Natalie Goldberg
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• Evelina by Fanny Burney
• The White Album by Joan Didion
• Emma by Jane Austen
• Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
• The Odyssey by Homer
• The Gunslinger by Stephen King

• Amsterdam
• London
• Edinburgh
• Isle of Sky
• Inverness
• Bath
• Paris
• York
• LA
• Washington D.C.
• Cozumel, Mexico
• The Cayman Islands
• Seattle
• Portland
• Venice Beach, LA

STATES /

• Colorado
• Washinton
• Viriginia
• Montana

• Ireland
• Vienna
• Rome
• Greece
• Australia
• Iceland
• Paris again
• Russia
• Japan
• Egypt
• South Korea

• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

"Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us."

"I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe."

"Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?"

"A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are."

"That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wi...