• “you need sleep.” “i need… you. that was cute, wasn’t it? huh? right? no?”

• ✔ never let me go -- kazuo ishiguro
• ✔ atonement -- ian mcewan
• the remains of the day -- kazuo ishiguro
• the great gatsby -- f. scott fitzgerald
• bridge of sighs -- richard russo

• there's something velvet and refined in your voice, sweeter than a melody escaped from your lips. quiet syllables, measured, meticulous-- i could only expect nothing less but nonetheless you've got me twirled in a dream. i'd love to get used to this
  • get used to y-o-u
• perhaps it was the most infinitesimal of moments, but if only for that moment i garner enough courage to lock and hold your eyes
  • lips parted so slightly, slow charm: you have the loveliest smile.
• lately i've been daydreaming and it's you, it's you, it's you.
  • and maybe it always will be

• current reading
  • ✔ let the great world spin
  • ✔ the picture of dorian gray and other writings - oscar wilde
  • ✔ the catcher in the rye - j.d salinger (8/17-?)
  • ✔ the kite runner
  • ✔ animal farm - george orwell
  • ✔ watership down - richard adams
  • the book thief -- mark zusak
  • ✔ a moveable feast -- ernest hemmingway
• future reading
  • harry potter & the deathly hallows
  • hemingway
  • (farenheit 451) bradbury
  • ( breakfast of champions, cats cradle, slaughterhouse five) vonnegut
  • (franny & zooey, the catcher in the rye) salinger

(because truthfully, you're all that ever seems to cross my mind in those in-between moments, in a daze, or right before bed)

• the little things from you will forever be one of my favorite things: the way you will kind of arbitrarily compliment when i least expect it, or say 'i love you so much' with such sincerity, even as your stirring just slightly from a nap. i've never needed grandiose gestures; just the little things.
• (5/28) i met you a year ago on this very day, with no suspicion (in the slighest) that it would be you, you, you, one entire year later. i still remember your charisma and your ridiculous sense of humor, and i suppose, that even then, we were bound to be at least good friends. we were complete opposites. you were amiable, charming and forward, i was reserved and sarc...

• "let’s go said he
• not too far said she
• what’s too far said he
• where you are said she"
• i come back to this so often, almost as if in anticipation of what lingers ahead. fuck.
• "And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away." - John Steinbeck

• eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
• the science of sleep
• up
• paris, je t'aime
• amelie
• rushmore
• forest gump
• across the universe
• moulin rouge!
• garden state
• big fish
• stardust
• the sound of music
• the brothers bloom
• a very long engagement
• the pianist
• say anything
• into the wild
• annie hall
• une femme est une femme
• serendipity :*

• suits (IS AWESOME, shameless plug)
• scrubs
• how i met your mother
• parks & recreation
• arrested development

• ON A QUEST TO GET CUTE BEFORE SUMMER oh god this is going to be disastrous
• daily workout
• gradually start running more. or running, period

lol the disparity between my ambitions and my actions!!!!!

• listening to "perfidia" and "beyond the sea". such blisssss!
• that liberating feeling of being waist-deep in the water just as the peak of the day dissipates, leaving calm and comfort
• windows rolled down, speakers up, sing songs along
• sweetness of strangers who don't feel much like strangers at all
• easy conversations
• cold blended coffee and scones
• waking up early, sleeping late
• late night food runs: thai food, dessert, etc
• new cuisines and restaurants
• part asian part white boys are my favorite
• wedding receptions
• singing aloud and freely
• boys who can sing
• pretty words