• bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward
• The Flowering Woman: Becoming and Being by Q. Gibson
• pond by claire louise bennett
• so sad today by melissa broder
• The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by olivia laing

• 5 centimeters per second
• perfect blue
• metropolis (2001)
• ghost in the shell 2: innocence (2004)
• Tekkonkinkreet (2006)
• summer wars

• Jules Verne - Journey to the Centre of the Earth
• Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
• Haruki Murakami - 1Q84 The Complete Trilogy
• Susanna Kaysen - Girl, Interrupted
• Kay Redfield Jamison - An Unquiet Mind
• Charles Saatchi - Be The Worst You Can Be
• Junji Ito - Uzumaki
• J R McDowell - I Laughed The Day I Died

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. - Charles Bukowski

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am. I am. I am. - Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man. - Homer (The Odyssey)

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less. - MAYA ANGELOU, YOU WILL BE MISSED.

Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is the ocean. — Thich Nhat Hanh