• What is your current state of mind?
  • preoccupied and romantic
• What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
  • society seems to regard insensitivity as a virtue...
• On what occasion do you lie?
  • when speaking the truth would benefit none and hurt all.
• What do you most dislike about your appearance?
  • i don't know if i can objectively answer this, i feel (i hope) that i see myself as much worse than i appear to others.
• Which living person do you most despise?
  • i do not, i cannot.
• What is the quality you most like in a man?
  • the all-consuming desire to buy me things ;) haha no i jest! this is just a difficult question. i suppose i most admire brilliant intellect and a colossal imagination, with eyes that reflect these qualities.
• What is the quality you most like in a woman?
  • the quality of being a kindred spirit, i suppose!
• Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
  • "i'm so sorry"
• What or who is the greatest love of your life?
  • a pair of dark and stormy sapphires
• When and where were you happiest?
  • when i was standing on the balcony in the middle of my first night in paris. i kept running out of bed to gaze at the street below and the buildings around me, i could not believe this city of my dreams had an actual, physical presence!
• Which talent would you most like to have?
  • magic
• If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
  • my fear of things... it is crippling if i do not fight it with everything i possess
• What do you consider your greatest achievement?
  • i consider international baccalaureate to be an achievement, but my greatest? this is so hard, because events are important based on entirely different qualities, what makes one quality (such as academic difficulty) greater than the others?
• If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
  • a swan, or a music box.
• Where would you most like to live?
  • belgium
• What is your most treasured possession?
  • at the moment i am enamored of my exquisite burgundy gift box from l'occitane. i know this sounds odd, but it is so intricately decorated and perfect. if i weren't to say this, i would have to say the contents of my bookshelf. oh, and my mermaid-blue silken bed. i treasure too much...
• What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
  • last october.
• What is your favorite occupation?
  • reading curled up by a window looking out on torrential rain, or singing, singing, singing
• What is your most marked characteristic?
  • my posture and my eyelashes
• What do you most value in your friends?
  • the ability to make me feel loved with the tiniest gestures... i cannot describe how much my two best friends mean to me.
• Who are your favorite writers?
  • marcel proust, victor hugo, rainer maria rilke, louis couperus, j.k. rowling, sarah shun-lien bynum, italo calvino... i could go on and on!
• Who is your hero of fiction?
  • quasimodo
• Which historical figure do you most identify with?
  • can a fairy tale figure be substituted? is belle from beauty and the beast acceptable? :) i have been told we look and act just alike!
• Who are your heroes in real life?
  • joanna newsom
• What are your favorite names?
  • aurora, siprián, noel, lancelin, story, odette, philomena, firenze, jenevieve
• What is it that you most dislike?
  • dread
• What is your greatest regret?
  • that i am not still a serious student of ballet
• How would you like to die?
  • gently, ever so gently... and loved.
• What is your motto?
  • have i a motto? i would like to borrow from van gogh... " i feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."

I would very much love to read your own responses! :)