• Silphium
• Cry Violet
• Silky Frankenia
• Water Tassel-fern
• Clubmoss Everlasting
• Sickle-leaved Waxflower
• Galapagos Amaranth

• Language of Flowers
• Moore's Paradox
• Legendary creatures from Japan

• "evaporated like the tail end of a sweet dream" (pg. 1)
• "I always had a terribly hard time trying to imagine people in bed together." (pg. 6)
• "There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction--every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and that excitement at about a million miles an hour." (pg. 16)
• "The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence." (pg. 18)
• "Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so...

art, articulation and eloquence in writing, autumn, being kissed at the suprasternal notch, being motivated, bruises, candles, incense, clavicles, dark humour/sarcasm, long hot showers, neat small handwriting, open-mindedness, painting, observing, philosophy, poetry, psychology, quiet, reading, realists, reveries, scars, solitude, writing letters, masquerade, victorian era, vocabulary.